The Beatles

I have some Beatles music on my devices and they pop up routinely as songs do.

I might have to start skipping them.

I’ve been singing “Bang, bang Maxwell Silver Hammer” for the last three days.

A few years back there was a movie about a world without The Beatles - with the exception of one guy who had all the songs in his head. As he began releasing them, one after another, in the modern world, he became a huge star. Was a pretty good movie that reminded us that, damn - they were prolific writers!

They weren’t together all that long. Broke up when I was five years old..

…but man, their songs stick in one’s head.

Of course, in these modern times we can’t have nice things - there are people who claim that they were lousy musicians or that their simple lyrics would be passed off as garbage, but when something strikes that largely…

…there is some talent there.

Look at Taylor Swift - she just got a half a million people signed up to vote with a single statement. She can’t stop selling tickets. Bruce either.

They both have their detractors as well (mostly people who claim their communists because they talk about peace, love and human rights)

Kind of like:

The Beatles.

“We all live in a yellow submarine, yellow submarine, yellow submarine.”

Hope that sticks in your head, and as an aside, my wonderful sister Corinne - as a kid - used to sing it as:

“We all live in a yellow stinky sock, a yellow stinky sock, a yellow stinky sock.”