beatles

In the early 60s popular artists sometimes put out two hit records a year (Bob Dylan, The Beatles '63-'65)...

Well Apple Computers got into hot water with Apple Records (the Beatles label) not once but twice.

My point is that they Michael Jackson and The Beatles are in the same equivalence class.

Not many people go through the same gruelling tours as the Beatles did before success.

Even the Beatles went nowhere until they hooked up with promoter George Martin.

Still, Starbucks is usually playing the Beatles or classical music, has a comfortable enough ambiance, and employees who are pretty happy and friendly.

Actually it was a dispute between EMI and Apple Corps (not invoking Apple Computer Inc) over royalties that held up the Beatles music licensing.

Absurd things like arrested Tokyo accordionist who played The Beatles for fun will happen all the time if one impose private property on music.

The Beatles sold more albums than Michael Jackson, they had more successfully released albums to begin with (eight vs five), they had more nr.

I always wanted to learn some Beatles songs, and the sheet music that my mother bought so many years ago was always too complex to be fun.

If tons of people listened to the Beatles in 1965 and today we have access to their catalogue, but 90% listens to inferior crap, does it still count as progress?

I think the Beatles example is bad because they had an extra skill, the ability to morph their music with the times that many other bands don't (Bowie is another example of someone who was able to do this).

And I don't see any "modern band" being as popular and as eternal as the Beatles.

This would be the "dirty", less polished, and less, well, white version of the Sinatra-Beatles line (which would probably extend westward to Paul Whiteman if he appeared on the map at all).

There is a line[1] in "Hey Jude" (a popular Beatles song) that I quite like:- "Don't carry the world upon your shoulders" No one can change the world all by himself but little things go a long way.

> (Most) Screw ups are OK Red Whittaker once told me "people remember you for your successes, not for your failures." People remember Paul McCartney as a member of the Beatles, and maybe a little for Wings, but not for any of the crap he's put out.

If Apple had all of this great power over the labels, why did it take so long to get the Beatles?

Somehow this map has put The Blues Brothers between Frank Sinatra and The Beatles.

They actually live on a line just south of the Sinatra-Beatles meridian.