And they were, quite simply, the happiest people we had ever Paul are on the same mike as they sing, close together, facing each other, mouths open as if about to kiss, the shrieks always escalate. Somehow did not efface the (true) impression that these boys would be wearing leather if they could, they were simultaneously every teenage girl's dream and beyond homoerotic: watch any video clip in which John and Show.'' They were preceded by a tsunami of hype, and they lived up to it - ubiquitous, accessible, obliquely but overwhelmingly sexy in a way that defied all standards of sex appeal.
The divisions and paradigms created by the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement, even Woodstock, have survived and evolved to the presentīut for all their genius, their charm and their charisma for all their exceptionally, even innovatively, forthright dealings with the press for all the approximately 400 books that have already been written about them - at least another 15 Beatles-relatedīooks are due this fall - the Beatles remain, to a great extent, as much of a mystery and a miracle as they were when they first appeared to us (if we were resident in the United States in 1964) on ''The Ed Sullivan Who bear the name, have a built-in system of legacy whether they like it or not. Their closest equivalents outside the music business, the Kennedys, as long as they continue to have children Their closest equivalents in the music business, the Rolling Stones, have become, in effect, their own legacy. In fact, it is one of the many - you could almost say the infinitely many - unique things about the Beatles that of all entities who were the objects of extreme mass-cultural emotion in the 1960's, they are curiously, transcendently legacy-free. (It's no coincidence that the first song on a Beatles album written by Harrison was ''Don't Bother Me.'') the answer might even be that it's really none of our business. Possible way, although for George Harrison, who never really enjoyed being fab - he used to send the Beatles' press officer, Derek Taylor, out to the balcony in his place to wave at the thousands of shrieking fans Being charming as well as beautiful, they mean this in the nicest Ow does it feel to be one of the beautiful people? According to the beautiful, brilliant Beatles, in their lavishly illustrated oral autobiography, ''Theīeatles Anthology,'' the answer is, more or less, that in their particular case if we weren't there, we couldn't possibly understand.
Meet the Beatles: John, Paul, George and Ringo in their own words.
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