The Mammoth Book of the Beatles by Sean Egan

Author:Sean Egan [Egan, Sean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781780333755
Publisher: Constable & Robinson
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

PART TWO: DISSENTERS

Not everybody thought the Four were particularly Fab. Some even despised them. A sometimes sobering selection of writing from the 1960s and subsequently giving the points of view of Beatle agnostics.

THE MENACE OF BEATLISM

Paul Johnson is known to most people under fifty or so as a harrumphing right-wing journalist. However, at one point in his life, he was a very different beast: a harrumphing left-wing journalist. This denunciation of The Beatles appeared in the New Statesman – then as now the pre-eminent journal of the British Left – shortly after William Deedes, a minister in the Conservative cabinet, had tried to butter up a group of Young Conservatives (and presumably the floating voters aged under thirty in the wider public) by waxing lyrical on the qualities of the Fab Four. Johnson had a good point about the cynicism involved in the gesture. Time, though, has made a mockery of his disdain for Deedes’ claim that, “They herald a cultural movement among the young which may become part of the history of our time . . .”

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