All Things Must Pass? Not
All Things Must Pass? Not The Beatles
A cynic, contemplating the reaction to George Harrison’s death, might be moved to predict that EMI and Capitol will sell a lot of records to bereaved baby boomers in the days to come. That cynic would be right, but the point is irrelevant. EMI always sells a lot of Beatles records, and not just to boomers. Four decades after “Love Me Do” nudged its way onto the charts, three decades after the band broke up and two decades after John Lennon’s death, the Beatles remain massively popular. This year the band ranked third on the Forbes 100 Top Celebrities list, just ahead of Britney Spears. To give the cynic his due, Harrison’s premature death at the age of 58 will no doubt boost record sales. But this is a band that sold more than 20 million copies of its greatest-hits album 1 a year ago, without any special emotional stimulus. As Harrison observed at the time, a good chunk of those 20 million buyers must have been teen-agers. “The thing that pleases me the most about it is that young people like it,” he told the Associated Press. “I think the popular music has gone truly weird. It’s either cutesy-wutesy or it’s hard, nasty stuff. It’s good that this [the 1 compilation] has life again with the youth.”
Related posts:
- Net gently weeps for Beatle Net gently weeps for Beatle Harrison Fans...
- Instant messaging to be more Instant messaging to be more popular than...
- Historic Beatles stage for sale Historic Beatles stage for sale The stage...