 The BEATLES music
by Thulasi Muttulingam
Love, Love me Do
You Know I Love You
I’ll Always be True
So Pleeeeease Love me Do!
Who could ignore a plea like that? Except that the Beatles in the
decades following that first single, got far more love than they had
ever bargained for. ‘Beatlemania’ was the word coined to describe the
phenomenon of frenzied, worldwide adoration that the group received,
never before or since replicated by any other musical group.
They were legends, as twenty something youngsters, legends long after
they broke up and legends even today; the kind of unique band that keeps
inspiring and creating fans out of newer and newer generations, that
weren’t around in their day.
The Beatles or rather the Beatles music never seems to grow old. They
still sell in the millions.
Pretty good for a ‘little band from Liverpool’ as Paul McCartney
called it in later years.
For a little group from Liverpool, their contribution to music as
well as their influence on youngsters of every generation since their
own in the fields of music, lifestyle and culture has been anything but
little.
Four decades after the band officially broke up, Beatlemania is still
going strong. Anything and everything about the band still sells, from
news about their lifestyles to unreleased singles or dropped records
from the time they were recording.
Of the original quartet, only Paul McCartney (68) and Ringo Starr
(70) are still alive and still very much in the news. Whatever they do -
or don’t do, is still picked up and commented on.
Each of the four members continued as solo artistes after the break
up of the band in 1970 (which caused so much heartache to all their
fans), and achieved success as well but not on the scale they did as
‘The Beatles’.
It is the Beatles’ music that people still go crazy over and the
members are always identified as ‘ex Beatle!’ That’s the identification
tag that they could not grow out of.
No one since has reproduced the amazing popularity of the Beatles,
not even they themselves. Time has ebbed and flowed and so has a lot of
water under the bridge, since their acrimonious break up but the music
of the Beatles still flows strong.
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