McCartney Times

Chicagoans is a first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford. This week’s Chicagoan is Jack Murphy, “Beatles PhD.””I have a bit of an obsessive streak to my personality, and the Beatles are a band that rewards obsessive listening. There are all sorts of little nuggets buried that you didn’t hear the first 99 times, but the 100th time, you hear them. By the time I was in college, I was a full-on Beatles completist. I had given myself, like, a Beatles PhD. After college, I applied to teach at Saint Gregory the Great at Ashland and Bryn Mawr in Andersonville. It was basically a charter high school within the archdiocese, and the administration was so incompetent. They had just fired all the teachers and left only one nun, Sister Mary. The yearbook that year had all these bitter messages: “After working here for 25 years and being told I’m no longer capable of using technology . . . “

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