A popular beat combo, m'lud
The Beatles wave to fans after arriving at JFK Airport, Feb 1964. (United Press International, photographer unknown, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons ) It started out as a light-hearted project for the pandemic: I would finally listen to all of the albums released by The Beatles in the sequence in which they were released. What I couldn’t have foreseen was that six months later, I would still be listening to records released half a century ago, nor that so much of my reading would relate to a band that broke up before I was even born. How much of a Beatles expert am I at this stage, you may ask? Pfft. Not much, as it happens. I still confuse the order in which the albums were released (‘does Rubber Soul come before or after Revolver?’) but I’m reading my third book on the band and of all the podcasts I subscribe to, my one must-hear is Nothing Is Real, a pod by two Irish fans who manage to be both knowledgeable and sound. In a way, this is like being a teenager in the 1990s again:
