7/23/2023 0 Comments Yellow submarine beatlesI’ve never been more prepared to share my thoughts about “Revolver” than I am at this very moment, this time as a parent to a 3-year-old boy who loves the Beatles with every bit of enthusiasm as I did back when I was his age. I wrote this particular review I’ve excerpted here in a time of bittersweet reflection following a 12-month cycle of life experiences that rocked me to my core: finding out out my mom had inoperable bone cancer, getting “ghosted” by my girlfriend after she graduated and split town and finally losing my beloved grandfather to lung cancer on Veteran’s Day. I wrote that passage back when I had a weekly music column in my school paper, The New Paltz Oracle, which I had cheekily called “I Hate Music” after the Replacements song, in review of the third and final installment of the Beatles’ Anthology series back in the spring of 1997. But if you talk about a group who had a nation of young faces pressed up against their TV screens when they appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show and claimed to be more popular than Jesus Christ, it can honestly be said that there will never be another group of musicians who could conquer the earth quite like John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison did in our lifetime. ![]() There have been a billion Oasises and Badfingers who passed through our ears in hopes of becoming the next Beatles, and there will probably be a billion more. ![]() In the end, there was a story to be told about a band that went down in the books as one of the wizards behind the green curtain who helped shape rock ‘n’ roll as we know it.
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