A Very Beatles Christmas December 30, 2006
Posted by Ben in : Music , trackbackI racked up on Beatles albums this Christmas, and that’s okay: I asked for it, and I’m enjoying it all. Albums I got were: Beatles for Sale, Rubber Soul, Revolver, the white album, and Abbey Road. In the liner notes (sleeve notes) of Beatles for Sale I came across this statement, written by Derek Taylor, that I find quite hilarious given the fact that we’re in the year 2006 (almost 2007) and I requested so much Beatles music for Christmas 40 years after it was recorded:
There’s priceless history between these covers. None of us is getting any younger. When, in a generation or so, a radio-active, cigar-smoking child picnicking on Saturn, asks you what the Beatle affair was all about—‘Did you actually know them?’—don’t try to explain all about the long hair and the screams! Just play the child a few tracks from this album and he’ll probably understand what it was all about. The kids of AD 2000 will draw from this music much the same sense of well being and warmth as we do today. Derek Taylor, 1964
So true, so true.
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