Fifty-Five Years After they Broke Up, Why Are the Beatles Still Popular? | The Wire Talks
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Generations have come and music genres have changed, but The Beatles and their music go on and on.
In this podcast, Oliver Craske and Sidharth Bhatia, both fans of the world’s first pop group try to crack this mystery of their enduring popularity 55 years after The Beatles broke up.
“Their music sounds deceptively simple but it was actually not simple” says Craske, who has worked on several books about the group including The Beatles Anthology: Get Back, which accompanied the Peter Jackson film on them.
“Lennon and McCartney-there has been no song writing duo like them,” says Craske.
The two analyse 'Rubber Soul' and 'Revolver', and how with each album they evolved, trying out new instruments and recording techniques. Many of their songs, such as A Day in the Life were revolutionary when they came out,” Craske says. “The group just continued to evolve.”
And of course, no discussion on the group is complete without speculating why they broke up.
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