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I wrote in your guest book, I have been a huge highly impressed Beatles
fan,especially John and Paul fan since I was 9 and I got my first Beatles
book for my 11th birhday and I had every album by age 13. I was born in
1965 during the middle of their recording career though. I have always
loved *all* of The Beatles music from the early period to their very
different but equally great later period.I recently saw a post on a guy's
blog that The Beatles are the # 1 selling artists in Amazon.com's Hall Of
Fame. U2 are # 2 and The Rolling Stones are # 10. Both of thee groups are
still together and but The Beatles timeless great music endures 35 years
after they split up!
I have been finding a very distressingly large amount of people mostly
young people on many different music review and other sites,saying such
ridiculous,totally ignorant,inaccurate things about The Beatles. And I'm
realy not just talking about people's "opinions" but total
inaccurate neagative myths and garbage about them. I can't really believe
what I'm reading and it's like they surely must have The Beatles mixed up
with the Osmond Brothers or The Bay City Rollers. There are so many people
who irrationally hate The Beatles and the things they say and the way they
write it,it's unreal! There is even a young guy who made a web site
called,The Beatles Do Not Suck!! where he debunks these inaccurate myths
that they were a boy band etc.
What keeps coming up on many sites is mostly young people saying they suck
are crap and they were just a manufactured "pop boy band" like
NYSNC or The Back Street Boys! A guy just recently posted saying he always
though they were overrated too and refered to them as being like New Kids
On The Block?! John Lennon's ashes must really be turning wherever they
are from all of this insulting total inaccurate bull that's being said
about them! It really would have been news to him that he wasn't the
founder and leader of a true *ROCK* band not a pop boy band! It's an
insult to his memory! As,John always said he just really loved rock n roll
and all of The Beatles idols were the early rock pioneers,Chuck Berry who
John especially loved,Little Richard,Buddy Holly and Elvis.
Anyone who knows their roots and history knows they were a genuine rock
band from the start,and they played 8 hours a night in the sleazy clubs in
Hamburg Germany often in Strip clubs,wearing tight black leather jackets
and pants,smoking,cursing and eating on stage.Plus playing in the Cavern
Club for a couple of years before they made it big. And that the cleaned
up image Brian Epstein created was not based on reality and that in fact
they were very wild in their personal lives going to bed with many young
groupies etc.
There are even several Rolling Stones fans saying this exact same thing on
a Roling Stones fan site run by this guy named Ken. He also debunked this
boy band nonsense and called it hogwash to a young guy who said this on
his site and told him as for the rest of what he said about them,he has no
clue about The Beatles.
But what's even more ludicrous about saying they suck,is that just about
every rock and music critic,many other well known musicians,and milions of
people have recognized John Lennon and Paul McCartney as extraordinarily
talented song writers and singers and Paul a great bass player! Even
brilliant classical composer and conducter Leonard Berstein said John and
Paul were the two most talented song composers of the 20th century. So did
Brian Wilson and Elton John on US TV shows. Even Ozzy Osbourne is quoted
in a 2001 online Bender Magzine interview saying Paul McCartney is a
genuis and The Beatles are the greatest band to ever walk this earth! At
least 6 music professors are teaching courses on The Beatles at good
Universities.
One is award winning music professor and classical composer Dr.Glen Gass
at Indiania University. He called me back in March and left a message on
my answering machine and he said that I don't have to worry The Beatles
popularity isn't going away,that he knows 20 year olds who love them
because they really love their music. He said there was a backlash to the
popularity of their 1 CD a few years ago but he said it's like any great
thing like Beethoven they will be around and liked forever.Dr. Gary
Kendal's Beatles course at North Western University is the most requested
course at the university.
I do find many posts on music review and Beatles fan sites from teenagers
and college age Beatles fans though. And I have found 42 former Beatles
hater's posts on web sites that say they are now big Beatles fans. They
say they heard a lot of this same inaccurate garbage from other people and
are now sorry they had listened and most hadn't even heard most of their
music.Some had,and then at the age of 30 they said they started to like
and appreciate them.
Carolyn Hoffman.
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