McCartney Times

It was David Bowie who defined the influence of John Lennon when he said: “I just thought he was the very best of what could be done with rock ‘n’ roll.” Eventually, Lennon would offer him some advice. “I said, ‘You know, I hate this manager that I’ve got, how do I get a new manager?’,” Bowie recalled, “he said ‘stop right there. No management. You don’t need management.’” As ever, ‘The Clever One’ was staunchly individual—and that individualism made a massive mark on society at large. In not much more than a handful of years, The Beatles changed the world. When the news broke on April 10th, 1970, that the musical force who turned the monochrome world multicoloured had suddenly blown a fuse, the mourning took to the streets. “Nobody will ever replace The Beatles,” one fan remarked, “It’s just one Beatles group. We grew up with them. They started when they were younger and we were younger, and they belong to us in a way. There could never be another Beatles, never!”

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