WHY THE BEATLES NEVER GO OUT OF STYLE

Liverpool, UK

Imagine one of those tween magazine quizzes, one that is supposed to show what your favorite music says about you by asking you cute questions about your musical taste. Except in return, this one would provide you with some stone-cold harrowing insight into your soul as to specifically why you may prefer The Beatles A Hard Day's Night over Yellow Submarine.

While I cannot provide you that kind of insight, it is a fact that The Beatles evolved between each of their albums in a fashion that resulted in their branching out enough to reach a wide array of tastes and personalities, arguably more than any other pop group in history. This is what enabled them to capture the world's imagination, and probably why you're even reading this.

Today the Beatles are still one of the most revered bands of all time. Truth be told, I used to question this. Growing up, I wasn't exposed to much of them beyond the occasional "Hey Jude" coming on Sunny 99.1 after something like The Eagles' "Hotel California." Those two songs didn't differ much to me. I thought they were both boring and overplayed. Blasphemy ensued, etc.

Fast-forward to a few years later. I hit that breaking point, say, resembling that moment in the movie Almost Famous when 15-year-old William Miller played that record that changed his life. Though this time there wasn't just one particular song that I can say changed my life, but those teenage years were enough to awaken my blossoming interest in music and its surrounding culture. 

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That Hippie Penny Lane