tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15916138.post4232039011165683125..comments2023-09-25T05:45:41.437-07:00Comments on The Art of Fiction: Every Generation Gets the Beatles it DeservesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15916138.post-30751632004998123452009-09-22T19:01:02.598-07:002009-09-22T19:01:02.598-07:00Great post~ I was born 10 80s, and I thought they ...Great post~ I was born 10 80s, and I thought they were my idols forever.version control geekhttp://www.dynamsoft.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15916138.post-40794591118395140662009-09-14T07:44:33.935-07:002009-09-14T07:44:33.935-07:00Good point, Tim. Very funnyGood point, Tim. Very funnyAdrianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05651417997212482246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15916138.post-67256140315693690982009-09-14T03:29:48.346-07:002009-09-14T03:29:48.346-07:00Talking of ELO, Jeff Lynne is always banging on ab...Talking of ELO, Jeff Lynne is always banging on about the fact that Lennon told him "ELO are what the Beatles would have sounded like in the 70s if they hadn't split up." The problem is, Lynne still hasn't grasped that Lennon didn't mean that as a compliment.Tim Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14681067872556519250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15916138.post-29552276939647455002009-09-13T01:53:47.163-07:002009-09-13T01:53:47.163-07:00Some are already public domain, I think. Everyone ...Some are already public domain, I think. Everyone I mentioned "Twist and Shout" to thinks the Beatles wrote it... I guess they're the extremist example of the artist being associated with the song & the recording, so that association may last longer. I'm sure many people don't realise "Knocking on Heaven's Door" or "Blowin' in the Wind" are Dylan songs, and the same will slowly happen with those Beatles songs that are in our folk memory; the Beatles brand will just keep them "proprietary" for a bit longer. (And, to be fair, in most cases the definitive version is by the Beatles, not always the case with Dylan.)Adrian Slatcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13946068316432524571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15916138.post-17174866714675076682009-09-13T01:22:39.033-07:002009-09-13T01:22:39.033-07:00Great post Adrian! I'm fascinated by the prosp...Great post Adrian! I'm fascinated by the prospect of a constant drip-feed of Beatles songs making a bid for freedom as they trickle out of copyright. Even they're oldest tunes seem far too new to sit alongside zipfiles of Little Dorrit, The Time Machine and White Fang, the books everyone's got on a dusty memory stick somewhere but which they never read.<br /><br />In 100 years will everyone have The Compleat Beates zipped up somewhere in their own corner of the cloud, with all their other acknowledged classics. Collected and collated but seldom played? Somehow, I think a different fate awaits this set of songs. We're more likely to hear jingles along the lines of And Your Bird Can Singstar, than seeing kids stepping up to recite passages of Martin Chuzzlewitt on X Factor 2079.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04098899594058962797noreply@blogger.com