McCartney Times

During the height of their popularity in the early 2010s, English-Irish boy band One Direction were compared with The Beatles, much to the dismay of purist Beatles fans. The comparisons were mostly based on the spunky five piece’s impressive knack for dilating the eyes of lovelorn schoolgirls.

Famously, The Beatles, besides their talent for creative songwriting and other culturally defining antics, were aesthetically appealing. If you need further evidence, just watch some footage from one of the group’s performances in the early ’60s; you can’t hear the music for the screaming hoards of ladies on the front row. If you’re lucky, you might just be able to make out Paul McCartney asking politely for them to shut up.

The comparisons between The Beatles and One Direction came to a head in 2014 when Harry Styles claimed that One Direction had become bigger than the Fab Four. At this point, tabloids recirculated an old photo of the One Direction boys mimicking the Beatles’ famous Abbey Road album cover where they had been shot walking across the zebra crossing near Abbey Road Studios.

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