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Originally Posted by TripletDaddy
Do you prefer the soothing sounds of Jack Benny coming from your Victrola?
Ha, no worries. I love The Beatles. My farts are younger than yours, but I still that given overall music catalogue, longevity, and influence on pretty much everyone (musically, politically, and socially), nobody even comes close to the Beatles.
EVERYONE listens to, knows, or has a Beatles memory--for good or bad. The same likely cannot be said about the Stones. I think the drama and intrigue surrounding Chapman's assassination of John also vaulted them into mythic status.
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Lennon's death probably fixed the bEatles for younger people, but they were already mythic by that time for my genreation. I was on my mission when Lennon was killed. I think in many ways his death was like JFK's death for my parents. I recall very clearly exactly wehre I was and what I was doing the day I learned the music died (I know, that song refers to somebody else, but you get the point).