The Beatles: A story with… “to come”. More than half a century has passed since the breakup of the relatively short-lived group – especially compared to the Rolling Stones – but The Beatles continue to be the most popular and influential music brand in history. This is confidence. In 2019, the year the pandemic broke out, songs written and sung by the Fantastic Four have been streamed nearly 1.8 billion times on Spotify, and nearly half of those who streamed them are millennials, ages 30 and under. Remembering one for one, the Beatles’ fan base remains global in scope, with countless fans including politicians, stars, entrepreneurs, students and ordinary workers. IMPORTANT Culture: The Beatles: The Story of… “to Follow” as told by Ioan Big.

I’m a Beatles fan too

the beatles “Even during the pandemic, when I was wearing a mask and even sunglasses, people would stop me to say ‘Hi Paul!'” admitted the “lovely Beatle”, who last year at the opening party of Peter The. Jackson’s Lord of the Rings miniseries The Return (available on Disney+ with another Beatles documentary, John Lennon: His Life, His Legacy, His Last Days from 2020), admitted with a smile that… I’m a Beatles fan too. We were a good little group.” This “little band” left to its members a billion-dollar legacy, literally, and to the world – a perennial cultural treasure of inestimable value, whether we mean the legacy of the Beatles from a sociological, spiritual, aesthetic or purely musical point of view.

Hundreds of books and dozens of documentaries have been written about the value and complexity of the band’s intangible legacy, and the latter continue to represent the most accessible gateway to the Beatles’ multiverse. In many cases, they offer an evocative picture of the amplitude of the socio-cultural influence the group still has on the general public, with Might Good The Beatles (1977) or How the Beatles Changed the World (2017), both available on Netflix, in the comprehensive film The Compleat Beatles (1982) on archive.org, narrated by Malcolm McDowell, or Lennon or McCartney (2014), which can be viewed for free on the YouTube channel of director Matt Schichter, who interviewed more than 500 artists about the infamous dilemma. ..Lennon or McCartney? “Question”, which shows us that time cannot destroy certain values, because they continue to exist, despite the fact that it contrasts the creative legacy of the artist who became a victim of celebrity in 1980, John, with the monument of vitality, Mack, who celebrated his 80th birthday on stage in June 2022 during his Got Back tour.

In the 70s, The Beatles ceased to exist as a band, and John, Paul, George and Ringo each went their own way and rarely crossed paths musically, achieving notable results for Merseybeat nostalgics.

However, all of them, albeit independently of each other, constantly added original chapters to the history of the wonderful four, which only enriched and increased the sphere of influence of the prologue of the sixties, dedicated to the existence of the quartet in this “endless”. history”. As far as the collective brand goes, if we look back only to the recent past, The Beatles entered the new millennium with fanfare.

Apple Corps, the company founded by the four in 1968, released Album 1 in 2000, a compilation of their #1 hits, which sold nearly 15 million copies and stayed on the US charts for… 388 weeks! The value of the Beatles’ catalog, especially after a technical upgrade in 2009, is now over a billion dollars, and their music continues to be reimagined, remixed and remastered in thousands of versions. Cirque du Soleil’s show Love, whose soundtrack consists of mixes of some Beatles songs, has been playing non-stop in Las Vegas for about 15 years, so amateurs even in 2022 can be counted among the two thousand spectators who attend a single evening at the theater . Mirage show. Tickets are reasonably priced, from $70 to $200, but a trip to Las Vegas can present some cost concerns.

Initial almost childlike simplicity of compositions and texts

Although it has no simple explanation, the “miracle” of the subsequent success of the Beatles probably has one of the main reasons in the initial almost childlike simplicity of compositions and lyrics related to the monobloc appearance of the quartet, which transcends the value systems that belong to local and public cultures, more often conflicting than convergent. Which, in the case of the Beatles, evolved incredibly quickly in the process of individual creative maturation into music that included a wide range of elements, from classical and psychedelia to World Music and Prog-Rock.

If we were to look for references in pop culture, perhaps the best example would be Steven Spielberg, with its evolution in less than a decade from ET, dismissed by critics at the time as a children’s story due to its simplicity, but now a sci-fi classic with a global fan base due to its versatility his message, to the cinematic masterpiece “Schindler’s List”, which was received by the general public and specialists, included by the American Film Institute in its list of the 100 greatest American films of all time. .. now think about the journey the Beatles took from Please Please Me to Sgt. Pepper in just four years.

The music of the “Beatles” united two Western worlds, which at that time were working on completely different fuels

From the point of view of universality, looking back at the 60s, the “defining” image of which were the four “Beatles”, their music united the two Western worlds, which at that time operated on completely different fuels. On one side of the Atlantic was the United States with Woodstock, but also with Altamont, with assassinations and political crises, with racial, ethnic and anti-Vietnam protests, with the Equal Pay Act against gender discrimination, the sending of the first email from California the University of Los Angeles to Stanford and the estrangement of Neil Armstrong, and on the other hand, the English lived carefree through the wild sixties, when London became the world capital of freedom and liberalism, creativity and joy of life, in which everyday unrest was more often fueled by worldly motives (Profumo case, the sexual revolution) than by deep social crises (mitigated by establishment responses such as the Sex Offenses Act or the Race Relations Act) and individualism over community. Beginning with a transoceanic cultural bridge that culminated in Love Me Do and I Saw Her Standing There, The Beatles established themselves through talent and flair organically as pioneers, then as trendsetters, and finally as icons of the counterculture in the context they were in. not only its products. Therefore, it was somewhat natural to continue the evolution at the individual level along with the maturation reinforced by the radical changes in the context of the 70s and 80s.

The Beatles, their music as an eternal… reminder

However, in addition to nearly a billion CDs sold both as a group and solo, the quartet’s still extremely strong influence in the 21st century must also be found in its leading role in the “awakening” of generations, whether we consider artists, media or viewers The Beatles remain a mirror of the redefinition of subcultures in a society that has just begun to realize on a mass level the need for militancy to win the rights of the community and unlimited individual self-expression as a factor of evolution. In essence, this is what shapes the legacy that The Beatles left us, with their music as an eternal… reminder.

BEATLES playlist SUGGESTION – select by year to reflect changes

Love Me (1962)

I Saw Her There (1963)

A Hard Day’s Night (1964)

Help! (1965)

Eleanor Rigby (1966)

Your Mother Should Know (1967)

When I’m Sixty-Four (1967)

Revolution (1968)

Happiness – Hot Gun (1968)

Don’t Let Me Down (1969)

Across the Universe (1969/70)

Bonus:Julie Taymor’s 2007 Beatles-inspired thriller Across the Universe and

contrasting combination of “Across the Universe” & “Helter Skelter” [interpretate de Jim Sturgess si Dana Fuchs] which perfectly conveys the yinyan of the Beatles:

The Beatles article by Ioan Big is part of the Beatles issue of the British band Sunete magazine.

PHOTO: PROFIMEDIA Jan Habbol / Alamy / Alamy / Profimedia

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