McCartney Times

You can’t account for timing. The Beatles were timed so perfectly that they made Mussolini’s trains seem scatty. When Ozzy Osbourne assessed their impact, he proclaimed, “It was like going to bed in a black and white world and waking up, and it turned to colour.” Such a Promethean impact was surely helped along by the fact that they literally arose at the point where colour TV and print was breaking into the affordable mainstream for the first time.After the scourge of the gruesome Second World War, a time so black and white it retrospectively seems like a lot more than a couple of decades away from ‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand’, yet it was, in fact, closer than Franz Ferdinand’s ‘Take Me Out’ is to the present, the fresh and vibrant Fab Four formulated a fitting revolution in response. Spearheaded by the wry wit and ballsy bolshevism of John Lennon, kids had a new working-class hero to celebrate, and he helped to change music in an overnight whirlwind.

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