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   Mike Powell to GEORGE POPE   
   Re: The ******* Beatles   
   06 Dec 21 16:20:00   
   
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   >  > Maybe they didn't like the later, psychedelic stuff the Beatles did but my   
   >  > understanding is that they were up in arms about them long before then.   
      
   > Pretty much from day one, mostly because they all had long hair (Elvis, their   
   > hero, always had short/nbet hair, & no facial hair, so what was with the got   
   > tam Beatles?  These people still say the Beatles began the erosion of   
   American   
   > moral values upon arrival in 1964.   
      
   Except not everyone liked him, either.  He shook his hips too much.  :)   
      
   > Turned out that correlation does not equal causation; after a proper   
   > scientific(following the proper rules for such) study, it was determined that   
   > the type of woman who used the BCP were also the same type to sunbathe in   
   > bikinis more than the general, perhaps more priggish, population.   
      
   I thought I knew where that was going, and I did. :)   
      
   > A comment from a senior member on talkclassical.com said:   
      
   > "Almost everything he did was unexpected -- and still is on first listen if   
   > you're deeply immersed in it. It's those passages where he leads you along   
   and   
   > you think he's going to resolve a phrase on the tonic or root chord as most   
   > others composers of the time did, but then goes off on a completely   
   surprising   
   > tangent. Combine that with the headbanging thrust, Thrust, THRUST of his   
   > sforzando passages and he must have had people fainting in the aisles."   
      
   Did they give you a name?  :)   
      
      
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