Many teenagers today enjoy listening to Z100 and 92.3Now! FM. Whereas I do enjoy listening to modern music, there is no band I love more than The Beatles.
The majority of their songs are instrumentally simplistic and written in a colloquial style. However, The Beatles remain universally loved, 40 years after their prime. To this day, people are still trying to decipher a cryptic message behind a song about a simple comestible ("Strawberry Fields") by backmasking the track.
The two true heroes of the band, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, were often said to have disagreed. Some believe the animosity began because Paul deprecated Yoko Ono, John's new girl friend at the time. Both began creating inside deals with record companies; the perfidy is essentially what tore the band apart.
Some claim that John and Paul must have hated each other, due to McCartney's reaction to John's death. Since Paul responded to the press laconically and emotionlessly saying that "it [John's death] was a drag," the public criticized their relationship. Nevertheless, Paul soon explained himself, saying that he had just recovered from a day in shock, like everyone else in the world.
But after seeing tears in Paul's eyes as he dedicated "Give Peace a Chance" to John in his concert this summer, I know that Paul and John truly did care about each other.
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