McCartney Times

Some years ago as I browsed the racks in a record store, I overheard a couple of teenagers talking about an album.  “Who’s this?” one of the lads asked his friend who looked up at the Long Play record he was holding.“Oh, the Beatles,” said the second boy dismissively. “That was Paul McCartney’s band before Wings.”For someone of my generation such a comment – one that relegated THE BEATLES to the status of just another “early band”, of less import than a mediocre 1970s pop group – is reason enough to support blasphemy laws.I exited the store but not before hurling a barbed look at the youngsters. What had the world come to?

Source: These Indian covers of Norwegian Wood sound as distinctive today as the Beatles first ‘sitar song’