If anything were to justify a break in baby-related posts, it would be this great Washington Post editorial about The Beatles.
Great quote:
A hundred years from now, musicologists say, Beatles songs will be so well known that every child will learn them as nursery rhymes, and most people won't know who wrote them. They will have become sufficiently entrenched in popular culture that it will seem as if they've always existed, like "Oh! Susanna," "This Land Is Your Land" and "Frère Jacques."The only part I disagree with is the claim that no one will know who wrote these great songs.
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Alex...that was a very nice surprise to see this post...I take it as a personal gift from you as it is well known that my life revolves around my family and The Beatles!
The Rolling Stone magazine website has a forum honoring the album and I posted something there last night. For your amusement, here it is:
The Beatles surprised the whole world with every record they made, even their singles. But even the concept of surprise took a new meaning the day that this album came out. There might be better albums, even better bands, but the Beatles and SPLHCB own a moment in time that has not been repeated in 40 years, an added value to this album that makes it a unique milestone in popular music worldwide. The day this album came out, new standards were set, and as one of the lucky ones that was there, it is still today that we are all want to live that moment again, and wish that younger people experience that too. In 40 minutes, all we knew about popular music changed, and so changed the expectations for everything that followed. The Beatles became the legend they are today because they managed to top themselves many more times. They taught us to expect more, and even so we got more than we could ever expect.
So that's the post I wrote. But today I was surprised to see this article in the WPost, and as it is always the case with the Beatles, it was nice to see a POSITIVE article in that editorial section of the paper. If there's something that never wears off, is the fact that every Beatles-related event always touches on positive and uplifting things, which is why I chose them to be the soundtrack to my life and it thrills me to see that the tradition continues and it touches your lives too. Do I get emotional with these things..? OH YEAH. And for a good reason.
Love
DAD
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