"Have we nothing better to offer? Surely this isn't the image of what we are like. What a dreadful impression they must have given the rest of the world," one comment read, the newspaper reported.
Another viewer, impressed by contributions from elsewhere, said "after all the culture ... shown by the other countries, the Beatles were the absolute dregs," the newspaper claimed.
"We did not do ourselves justice," another viewer commented.
I wonder, what would these British adults of the 1960s preferred? Shakespeare? I just wish Monty Python had existed, they could have beamed the entire world the Dead Parrot Sketch.
The best part of this is, as I was reading that the song "All You Need Is Love" was written for the performance, it starts playing on my iPod. Awesome.
You know I'll be seeing Across The Universe on opening night.
2 comments:
Dregs, huh? Imagine how they feel now, with "Posh and Becks".
adam - That raises a scary thought. In 40 years, will people be amazed at how little critical love was shown to "Wannabe"?
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