Who can beat Beatles? The four lads from Liverpool is now a subject of study
Liverpool Hope University in the UK has launched a Master of Arts degree in The Beatles. And there is no other apt place than Liverpool for a course like this as this is where all the band members were born and raised.
A senior lecturer at the university has said that though there are over 8,000 books about the Beatles there have never been serious academic studies on the band.
Perhaps this is the first time that a band has become the material for academic studies. And coming after forty years since the band’s break-up, this shows the relevance of the band at a time the music world is flooded with various genres.
This, no doubt, is a tribute to one of the greatest bands on earth as it has redrawn the many dynamics of the music, with its unique style and the kind of music. The Beatles music still flows, transcending generations and genres.
It is simply difficult to attribute the band's success to a particular member. The Police means Stings; The Rolling Stones means Mick Jagger. But in the case of Beatles, all the four were unique in their own right. It wasn’t just John Lennon and Paul McCartney alone. There’s Ringo Star (Remember his wonderfuly-rendered ‘Don’t pass me by’) and of course the inimitable George Harrison whose Indian connection and association with sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar produced genre-defying numbers like ‘within you without you’.
It is impossible to confine the Beatles’ music into a particular genre like pop or rock. We have a number of songs that just cannot be bracketed into any particular style. Remember ‘Come together’, ‘Cry baby cry’ or ‘Revolution.’ The band wasn’t averse to experimenting.
So the ruling is: Bealtes still rocks!
Liverpool Hope University in the UK has launched a Master of Arts degree in The Beatles. And there is no other apt place than Liverpool for a course like this as this is where all the band members were born and raised.
A senior lecturer at the university has said that though there are over 8,000 books about the Beatles there have never been serious academic studies on the band.
Perhaps this is the first time that a band has become the material for academic studies. And coming after forty years since the band’s break-up, this shows the relevance of the band at a time the music world is flooded with various genres.
This, no doubt, is a tribute to one of the greatest bands on earth as it has redrawn the many dynamics of the music, with its unique style and the kind of music. The Beatles music still flows, transcending generations and genres.
It is simply difficult to attribute the band's success to a particular member. The Police means Stings; The Rolling Stones means Mick Jagger. But in the case of Beatles, all the four were unique in their own right. It wasn’t just John Lennon and Paul McCartney alone. There’s Ringo Star (Remember his wonderfuly-rendered ‘Don’t pass me by’) and of course the inimitable George Harrison whose Indian connection and association with sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar produced genre-defying numbers like ‘within you without you’.
It is impossible to confine the Beatles’ music into a particular genre like pop or rock. We have a number of songs that just cannot be bracketed into any particular style. Remember ‘Come together’, ‘Cry baby cry’ or ‘Revolution.’ The band wasn’t averse to experimenting.
So the ruling is: Bealtes still rocks!
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