“It needs the Beatles,” he said, “to sort things out.”It’s a remark that gets to the heart of the Beatles’ importance. By collating, curating, embellishing and developing, the Beatles gave pop form, they acted as a unifying force. Peter Doggett: ‘The real rebellions are elsewhere’Facebook Twitter Pinterest The poster for Yesterday, which imagines a world without the Beatles. Photograph: Rex FeaturesWhat other forms might have become pop – the pop cultural phenomenon – if pop hadn’t been pop? Ken McNab: ‘Mick Jagger would be working in the City’A world without the Beatles would be the equivalent of Leonardo never picking up a paintbrush or Shakespeare concluding that Hamlet amounted to vacuous doggerel.

Source: The Guardian June 19, 2019 08:38 UTC