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Tuesday, January 21, 2014

THE BEATLES


THE BEATLES
FIFTY YEARS LATER

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hat would be a bombshell by the 60s sounded only as a cliché, as a Russian physician practicing in the US started browsing on the Beatles . “ What made them successful was the lyrics” he concluded as he was labeling  the new NY mayor Di Blasio,  as a man with a vision going beyond capitalism. Anyway, he was fond of the Beatles and seemed to pay his own tribute to the so called Beatlemania.

A late Haitian immigrant remembered the coming of the Beatles by February 1964. “it was unbelievable” told Mr. Claude Sassine. A man with a heart full of love and high spirits, M. Sassine  reminded those  frenzy girls rushing at the NY airport and greeting these teenagers steeping out from Pan Am. The British invasion had started, a kind of sentimental  Normandy,  a musical D-day. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower would have  silenced   his guns.

Wikipedia wrote:
“The Beatles were an English rock band that formed in Liverpool, in 1960. With John LennonPaul McCartneyGeorge Harrison, and Ringo Starr, they became widely regarded as the greatest and most influential act of the rock era.[1] Rooted in skiffle and 1950s rock and roll, the Beatles later experimented with several genres, ranging from pop ballads to psychedelic rock, often incorporating classical elements in innovative ways. In the early 1960s, their enormous popularity first emerged as "Beatlemania", but as their songwriting grew in sophistication they came to be perceived as an embodiment of the ideals shared by the era's sociocultural revolutions.”



Today the Beatles’ legacy  can be summarized in a nutshell: a collapse of everything we used to live with as baby boomers. A revolution is still under way that reminds  the thinking   of  Merleau Ponty . The novelist Andre Gide is not too far







THE COMING OF THE BEATLES
FEBRUARY 1964