Is there anything left to learn about The Beatles?
From a review of John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs by Ian Leslie in The Economist
In 1967 Bryan Magee, a British philosopher and author, noted that 40-year-old songs by the likes of George Gershwin, Cole Porter and Jerome Kern still had wide currency. Given an “indifference to melody in favour of rhythm and intriguing new sound mixtures”, he doubted that the songs of the 1960s would fare so well. “Does anyone seriously believe that Beatles music will be an unthinkingly accepted part of daily life all over the world in the 2000s?” he dared to ask…The question now seems daft.
BTW: Magee was a wonderful and generous student of philosophy and wrote well on Popper