don't follow leaders

The Beatles did it, man. All roads lead to and from John, Paul, George and Ringo. Ian MacDonald’s book, Revolution in the Head, states rather eloquently that “LOVE ME DO was the first faint chime of a revolutionary bell. It represented far more than the sum of its simple parts. A new spirit was abroad: artless yet unabashed—and awed by nothing.” Unabashedly artless, the Beatles made pop music fun. They filled their songs with catchy hooks, segues to the minor and deceptively simple middle eights, and in doing so, they wrote the book on pop music and became legends in their time. "Artless yet unabashed." Pete Townshend, who once called the Beatles "lousy," also once said that "pop music is crucial to today's art and it's crucial that it should remain art and it's crucial that it should progress as art." Hmm. .........................JUST LISTEN TO THE KINKS.........................