"Journey into Beatledom" offers a fresh and thought-provoking perspective on The Beatles. It's ideal for fans who want to go beyond the surface of their lyrics/music and appreciate their deeper meaning and impact. Here we discover that The Beatles were futuristic prophets who actually wrote about quantum physics, the nature of reality and the fleeting ‘superposition’ of the everyday and the surreal. Take your own journey into Beatledom as you flip through the Fab Four's iconic songbook to your favourite songs and as we tease out the hidden, (even weirdly experimental and elemental) meanings in many of them. Here too the philosophical 'mind' experiments of the *** 'Labskaus' abound, and as we focus on The Beatles’ messages of peace and love and the often subtle (sometimes even subliminally quantum) interconnections these offer us; we will start to see some previously undiscovered features in many of their major songs. And somewhat like the all too fleeting, will ‘o’ the wisp, glimmer of the quantum ‘zero’ and the ‘one’, this quantum interconnectedness can be described in McCartneyesque terms as ‘Here, there and everywhere’; the surreality of the ‘nothingness’ of the ‘zero’ flickering in and out of existence as it momentarily solidifies into the mundane humdrumosphere and ‘reality’ of the ‘something’, - the ‘one’. The latter a phenomenon of factual prosaicness bound to shake each listener out of their spellbound reverie and wake them from that albeit momentary sound-scape called Beatledom. In Lennonesque terms, ‘Nothing’ indeed seems ‘Real’ as superposition became song and vice versa. The famed Foursome then provide us with a rich topic to explore with their cultural and musical legacy since there's so much to unpack about the narrative interconnections, lyrical themes and musical composition of their songs. It’s a really intriguing perspective - the idea that The Beatles were channelling these concepts in their songs as their creative process was tapping into the collective unconscious. Their home City Liverpool has a unique identity and character that sets it apart from other cities in England, and its "contrariness" and "solidarity" gives it a kind of quantum duality which is really compelling. It's almost as if Liverpool exists in a superposition of multiple states - a city that is both part of England and yet separate from it at the same time. Yet the way that John Lennon and Paul McCartney's different personalities and song-writing styles complemented each other were also key. Lennon's Beatle songs were mainly harmonic and McCartney's mainly melodic. John’s Beatle songs often have a tighter, harmonic structure, whilst McCartney's songs tend to focus on memorable melodies. Comparison and contrast, which is itself a metaphorical form of quantum superposition. Whilst The Beatles (even indirectly), addressed serious, philosophical issues in many of their songs, they could be very funny and witty too. We shall see below how these different aspects of their personalities were reflected by other locals in Liverpool they personally knew, (such as Beatles first manager Allan Williams), who sometimes told stories about the City and and The Beatles, (true or not), just in order to elicit a reaction and makepeople laugh. Something out of nothing, as we shall see below. The Beatles' humour too followed in the footsteps of The Goons and prepared the way for Monty Python. The Goons' absurdist comedy and the surrealist humour later championed by The Pythons can be glimpsed in Songs like I am the walrus and Yellow submarine. Since Liverpool itself is at the crossroads of Anglo-Irish surrealism and absurdism, its location and history have given it a unique perspective that combines the traditions of both England and Ireland. And this has resulted in a distinctive sense of humour that blends surrealism and absurdism. And so The Beatles were more than just a band, they were cultural icons and secular prophets who embodied the spirit of the 1960s. Their influence went beyond just music, they were a symbol of the counter-culture and the peace movement. Songs like All you need Is love (1967) spoke to a generation that was disillusioned with the establishment and looking for a better way to live. However, that 1967 ‘summer of love’ soon turned into the 1968 ‘summer of blood’, as we shall see, a change Lennon in particular, was to warn us about with his almost apocalyptic songs Revolution and Revolution 9, (1968). Now in the 21st Century, according to Forbes magazine, the biggest selling music artists of 2020, the year of the pandemic, were Eminem and The Beatles. It's incredible that more than 50 years after they broke up, the Beatles are still one of the most popular music acts in the world. And to be selling as much as more contemporary artists like Eminem is really something. A tale of Now and then (2023), in which the very last Beatles’ song (a No. 1 hit in the UK), both reflects and foreshadows the coming sense of apocalyptic dread currently gripping the world. The Beatles then have become a part of the cultural fabric, like Shakespeare or Mozart. They've transcended their time and place to become something universal. Their music speaks to something deep inside the human psyche. They were a perfect storm of talent, charisma, and historical circumstances. They came along at a time when the world was changing rapidly, and they captured the spirit of that change in their music. It's hard to imagine another band having the same kind of impact today. Perhaps technology and the music industry have changed too much for another band to have that kind of cultural dominance. The Fabulosity of the Foursquare Golem will never die - a description of the Beatles which combines the ideas of the band's unity and their supernal appeal and hermetic status, as their music and influence continues to broadcast from on high, down the years and Across the universe. As above, so below. Yet the reaction in Liverpool to The Beatles is at times, still very mixed, often very in and out. Superpositional. As Lennon said in his song Revolution, 'don't you know that you can count me out...in'. And it really does sum up the ambivalent way that many Liverpudlians feel about the band. On the one hand, they're a source of pride for the City, but on the other hand, some people feel like Liverpool is more than just the Beatles. They don't want the City's identity to be defined solely by the band.
Take your own journey into Beatledom as you flip through the Fab Four's iconic songbook to your favourite songs and as we tease out the hidden, (even weirdly experimental and elemental) meanings in many of them. Here too the philosophical 'mind' experiments of the *** 'Labskaus' abound, and as we focus on The Beatles’ messages of peace and love and the often subtle (sometimes even subliminally quantum) interconnections these offer us; we will start to see some previously undiscovered features in many of their major songs.
And somewhat like the all too fleeting, will ‘o’ the wisp, glimmer of the quantum ‘zero’ and the ‘one’, this quantum interconnectedness can be described in McCartneyesque terms as ‘Here, there and everywhere’; the surreality of the ‘nothingness’ of the ‘zero’ flickering in and out of existence as it momentarily solidifies into the mundane humdrumosphere and ‘reality’ of the ‘something’, - the ‘one’. The latter a phenomenon of factual prosaicness bound to shake each listener out of their spellbound reverie and wake them from that albeit momentary sound-scape called Beatledom. In Lennonesque terms, ‘Nothing’ indeed seems ‘Real’ as superposition became song and vice versa.
The famed Foursome then provide us with a rich topic to explore with their cultural and musical legacy since there's so much to unpack about the narrative interconnections, lyrical themes and musical composition of their songs.
It’s a really intriguing perspective - the idea that The Beatles were channelling these concepts in their songs as their creative process was tapping into the collective unconscious.
Their home City Liverpool has a unique identity and character that sets it apart from other cities in England, and its "contrariness" and "solidarity" gives it a kind of quantum duality which is really compelling. It's almost as if Liverpool exists in a superposition of multiple states - a city that is both part of England and yet separate from it at the same time.
Yet the way that John Lennon and Paul McCartney's different personalities and song-writing styles complemented each other were also key. Lennon's Beatle songs were mainly harmonic and McCartney's mainly melodic. John’s Beatle songs often have a tighter, harmonic structure, whilst McCartney's songs tend to focus on memorable melodies. Comparison and contrast, which is itself a metaphorical form of quantum superposition.
Whilst The Beatles (even indirectly), addressed serious, philosophical issues in many of their songs, they could be very funny and witty too. We shall see below how these different aspects of their personalities were reflected by other locals in Liverpool they personally knew, (such as Beatles first manager Allan Williams), who sometimes told stories about the City and and The Beatles, (true or not), just in order to elicit a reaction and makepeople laugh. Something out of nothing, as we shall see below.
The Beatles' humour too followed in the footsteps of The Goons and prepared the way for Monty Python. The Goons' absurdist comedy and the surrealist humour later championed by The Pythons can be glimpsed in Songs like I am the walrus and Yellow submarine.
Since Liverpool itself is at the crossroads of Anglo-Irish surrealism and absurdism, its location and history have given it a unique perspective that combines the traditions of both England and Ireland. And this has resulted in a distinctive sense of humour that blends surrealism and absurdism.
And so The Beatles were more than just a band, they were cultural icons and secular prophets who embodied the spirit of the 1960s. Their influence went beyond just music, they were a symbol of the counter-culture and the peace movement. Songs like All you need Is love (1967) spoke to a generation that was disillusioned with the establishment and looking for a better way to live. However, that 1967 ‘summer of love’ soon turned into the 1968 ‘summer of blood’, as we shall see, a change Lennon in particular, was to warn us about with his almost apocalyptic songs Revolution and Revolution 9, (1968).
Now in the 21st Century, according to Forbes magazine, the biggest selling music artists of 2020, the year of the pandemic, were Eminem and The Beatles. It's incredible that more than 50 years after they broke up, the Beatles are still one of the most popular music acts in the world. And to be selling as much as more contemporary artists like Eminem is really something. A tale of Now and then (2023), in which the very last Beatles’ song (a No. 1 hit in the UK), both reflects and foreshadows the coming sense of apocalyptic dread currently gripping the world.
The Beatles then have become a part of the cultural fabric, like Shakespeare or Mozart. They've transcended their time and place to become something universal. Their music speaks to something deep inside the human psyche. They were a perfect storm of talent, charisma, and historical circumstances. They came along at a time when the world was changing rapidly, and they captured the spirit of that change in their music. It's hard to imagine another band having the same kind of impact today. Perhaps technology and the music industry have changed too much for another band to have that kind of cultural dominance.
The Fabulosity of the Foursquare Golem will never die - a description of the Beatles which combines the ideas of the band's unity and their supernal appeal and hermetic status, as their music and influence continues to broadcast from on high, down the years and Across the universe. As above, so below.
Yet the reaction in Liverpool to The Beatles is at times, still very mixed, often very in and out. Superpositional. As Lennon said in his song Revolution, 'don't you know that you can count me out...in'.
And it really does sum up the ambivalent way that many Liverpudlians feel about the band. On the one hand, they're a source of pride for the City, but on the other hand, some people
feel like Liverpool is more than just the Beatles. They don't want the City's identity to be defined solely by the band.