ジェレ・ヘスターはジャーナリストであり、 “ビートルズベイビーを育てる。” He is the editor in chief of THE CITY, ニューヨークのローカルニュースサイト. この解説の意見は彼自身のものです. 見る より多くの意見 articles at CNN.
At Mount Sinai South Nassau on New York’s Long Island, the hospital staff reportedly spins “Here Comes the Sun” on the public address system every time a coronavirus patient is discharged.
Paul McCartney is set to play the upcoming “One World: Together at Home” charity special, joining a bill that includes 18-year-old superfan Billie Eilish, ほぼ 60 彼の後輩の年.
“以上の増加” has gained new resonance as an intergenerational singalong, crooned by neighbors through windows-turned-portholes, socially distant, but inextricably linked.
They may have broken up 50 数年前, 四月に 10, 1970. But the Beatles still help us come together, especially when we need it most.
So how to explain the enduring grip of a group that invaded the US in 1964 いつ more than two-thirds of Americans currently alive — myself included — had yet to be born?
六月に 1967, The Beatles invited British photographer David Magnus — then only 22 年 — to take pictures of them at Abbey Road Studios (known at the time as EMI Studios).
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It was the weekend they recorded “All You Need is Love” for the BBC’s “Our World,” the world’s first live, international satellite production.
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This was also the first time the band performed the song in public. It would be released as a single the following month.
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The band invited celebrity friends like Mick Jagger (pictured here with John Lennon) and Marianne Faithful to attend the taping.
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Magnus was given the freedom to photograph whatever he wanted behind the scenes.
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He captured the rehearsals and the performance, as well as candid moments when the band was relaxing.
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Magnus first photographed the band at a concert at a Buckinghamshire private school when he was 19.
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“Looking back at that weekend and the time I spent through the years with The Beatles, I now realize how incredibly fortunate I was to spend so much time with them,” said Magnus, 今 72.
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There are some obvious answers, starting with the music — a fab force that evolved at revolution speed, going from the proto-boy band pop of “I Want to Hold Your Hand” in late 1963 to the psychedelia of “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” over a span of 3½ years.
Then there’s the message, embodied in “All You Need is Love.”
そして, もちろん, there’s the humor, born in earthy Liverpool and channeled into family friendly movies from “A Hard Day’s Night” に “以上の増加” that grew on mom and pop, long hair and all.
All true. But it adds up to something much bigger.
A musical legacy to share
ビートルズ’ greatest gift was giving us something to share, a legacy to pass along just as stories and songs were in days of old. We’ve done it with everything from vinyl records to eight-track tapes to CDs to iTunes to Spotify and back to vinyl again.
And we do it as much for ourselves as for our children.
Seeing and hearing the discovery of the Beatles through fresh eyes and ears is life affirming and offers a sense of renewal. Dig a little deeper, and the band’s journey — the struggles, triumphs, friendships, marriages, breakups and tragedies — is life’s path writ large, filled with lessons we’ll probably ignore and pitfalls we’ll stumble into anyway, because that’s human nature.
And their story makes John Lennon, ポール・マッカートニー, George Harrison and Ringo Starr all the more human — and eternal — to us.
何とかして, the pop culture face of a turbulent decade that cleaved the generation gap has connected families across time.
You can see it in the Boomers who bring their children and grandchildren to McCartney and Ringo Starr concerts, and flock to Cirque du Soleil’s “The Beatles LOVE” spectacular. You can see it the flying fingers of the kids playing The Beatles: Rock Band video game.
You can hear it in the music: Last year’s golden anniversary edition of “Abbey Road” hit No. 3 on the Billboard charts, ほぼ 50 years after it went to No. 1.
Much to the ire of British motorists, fans for decades have tried to recreate the iconic album cover showing the Beatles walking across the street outside their London recording studio.
It proved both brilliant and sad that transportation officials recently grabbed the opportunity to repaint the zebra crosswalk with London, like half the world, in lockdown.
もう一度, the Beatles found themselves a symbol of changing times.
The Beatles remain here, there and everywhere
Starr postponed the spring tour that was to lead up to his 80th birthday — the milestone John Lennon would have reached this October. We’ve been without Lennon for almost 40 年, and George Harrison’s been gone nearly half that long.
それでも, last year’s charming movie “昨日,” reinforced that it’s impossible to imagine a world without the Beatles.
私は 3 years old when they broke up — and they’ve always been here, there and everywhere for me.
The woman who is now my wife of nearly 30 years and I bonded over them. We raised our daughter as a Beatle baby, and traveled in the group’s footsteps through Hamburg, London and Liverpool (and one day, 望みでは, インド).
Travel seems like one sweet dream these days for the three of us, grateful to be healthy, working and home together, with the soundtrack of our lives counterbalancing the endless ambulance sirens wailing through our Brooklyn neighborhood.
So no, I can’t imagine my life without the Beatles. And I’m not the only one.
On the first Saturday of every month, my wife, daughter and I cram into a tiny bar in Manhattan’s East Village with a few dozen other obsessives, いくつか, 私のような, slinging guitars. We play and sing Beatles song for five hours — people from across generations and from across the universe, transported together.
先週, we took the jam online. It wasn’t quite the same, but we saw one another’s smiles and we heard one another’s voices.
それが終わったとき, everyone said the same thing: “See you next month.” Whether that will be in person or via Zoom, 上手, no one was prepared to say.
But we’ll be back together, connected by a band that split a half century ago, taking a sad song and making it better.
