When a crazy fan shot dead John Lennon, in a mad frenzy, forty-one years ago, it marked the end of an era—an age which was unlike any other epoch in music history. It’s also everything that made the Beatles, the Beatles—for yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
The Beatles influenced just about everything, including the post-war baby-boom generation in Britain, the US, and across the globe like no other, before, or after them. They kicked off their fascinating saga, soon after they launched their debut single and runaway hit, Love Me Do, sixty years ago. Their worldwide fame, in no time, exceeded not just the charisma of Presidents, but also Jesus Christ.
Though the ‘Fab Four’—John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr—that made the group were originally famous for light pop music, their sublime dexterity achieved a mix of critical and literary acclaim that nobody has been able to equal. What’s more, and thanks to their amazing musical repertoire and exalted skills, the Beatles became more than recording artists; they also branched out into films (Note: A new documentary, The Beatles: Get Back, directed by Peter Jackson of The Lord of the Rings fame, is slated to premiere this fall. It’s sure going to be a huge hit with every Beatles fan across the globe). This wasn’t all. Lennon, the man behind the band’s charismatic appeal, espoused political activism, not just the comfort of drugs, which the Beatles were once dubiously renowned for. The best part is—the Beatles were, for sure, the most successful music group in history; their global sales exceed 1.6+ billion records.
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