[/QUOTE]What about Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd? Won't they be remembered?[/QUOTE]
Not likely. Fame is fleeting and very few names carry on after they're gone. There are plenty of great bands who made great music, but the lasting popularity of the Beatles is a one of a kind happening. Here is an example of the affect the Beatles still have on people today. Young or old.
Just today, I brought my car to the shop and while I was waiting for it they had a tv on showing some local early morning talk show. Emma Stone(who is only 20 years old) was promoting her new movie and was being interviewed. One of the first things the interviewer asked her was about her having dinner with Paul McCartney recently. Emma was giddy with excitment just recalling the experience and she said it was the greatest meeting of her life. This is a part of a magazine interview where she talks about meeting Sir Paul:
"Despite her lack of '80s bona fides, her musical memory hardly begins with the Ricky Martins of the world. She declares a recent outing "the greatest night in the history of history" Ã¢â‚¬" when asked why, her mouth spreads into a Cheshire grin.
"Because Woody Harrelson took Kat Dennings and I to Paul McCartney's house for dinner. That's the night I met Paul McCartney,"Â she says. The Beatles, it turns out, are her all-time favorite band, McCartney's "Blackbird"Â her all-time favorite song.
"I found out about two hours before â€" it was our last day of shooting on ‘Zombieland' â€" and everyone I called, I said, ‘Guess where I am going for dinner, and you cannot shoot high enough.' People were like, ‘Diane Keaton?' because she's my hero, and I'm like, ‘Keep shooting.' I mean, it's crazy, right?
"He made veggie burgers. Himself. Grilled ‘em. It was surreal. I felt like I was dreaming the whole time. He said the word ‘Liverpool,' and I was like, ‘Oh, my God, he said, "Liverpool!" That is so cool.' "Â
I have seen famous people, very famous people, stutter and stammer and be in awe of meeting a Beatle. The schoolgirl screams of the 60's have been replaced with the ultimate reverence and respect from the fans who grew up with them. And the kids are just as crazy about them as ever.
I want to comment on something Don said about the song 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds'. The story that it is a song about LSD is one of the many negative myths surrounding Beatles songs. The song is not about LSD.
The song was written by John when his son, Julian, came home with a picture he drew in school. He told his dad it was a picture of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. John loved the imagery of the picture and said he wrote a song with that as the title and used the picture as his guide for the song.
When the hidden LSD was mentioned to him later(months after the album came out) he was as surprised as anyone and went looking through all his other songs to see if they spelled out anything. They didn't.
The current follow up to this story was just in the news. The girl Julian drew the picture about, Lucy, was a real girl in his class named Lucy O'Donnell. A couple of months ago Julian found out that she was struggling with Lupus. He gave her money and helped her as best he could but she passed away this past Monday of the disease.
Just as negative stories get told about other famous whites, The Beatles also were targets to be attacked. Most of the negative stories are pure fiction or greatly exaggerated.
Edited by: GWTJ
