Radio Gonzo

What? Another article about the Beatles? The band split up 47 years ago, two of them are now dead, and the remaining ones lurch happily from project to project but have not done anything which is truly culturally significant for many years. “Why does everybody love the Beatles?” asked Olivia as we started to write this introduction together, with me slaving over a hot iPad in North Devon and her typing busily away in Norfolk. It's a pretty good question. And, as I really had no idea what I was going to dictate in this introduction for a radio show that is basically a jolly chat between me and my old mate Neil, I'm going to have a bash at answering that question. It would be easy to say that the Beatles are important because their music was so bloody good. But the only Beatles records anybody usually cites were produced after 1965, and even then, the band were responsible for some terrible records buried amongst the rest. One record that has already irritated the hell out of me is 'She's a Woman'. For fuck