If you listen closely to their music these days, is it even possible to spot The Beatles’ references? Is it? Well, aye, it is. The louder the gob, the bigger the knob ‘n all that. Just because they shouted louder and played louder and just were louder in every sense didn’t mean they were the only ones with a fevered fascination for the Fab Four. With their self-proclaimed monobrowed monopoly on all things Fab you could be forgiven for thinking that Oasis had cornered the market in Beatles-influenced music.

Who cares if someone’s first exposure to Hey Bulldog is via De Agostini publishing?įast track back to the mid 90s and arguably the first flourish of serious Beatles reappraisal since the demise of the band.

It’s a great time to be discovering them for the first time. There’s a wee bit of a media-fixated Beatles renaissance going just now, what with Sgt Pepper turning 50 and fortnightly reissues of their back catalogue racked up in the Spar alongside Tank Commander Monthly and Build Your Own Millenium Falcon Weekly.

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