Revolution in the Head (A Close Look at the Songs)
The Beatles Conspiracy/1st & 2nd Matrix Tango, Part Two
(Art by Michelle Horsley)
(Part One)
“The Beatles’ lives and works are prototype models of post-Christian ‘nowness.’ Entirely lacking the uptown urbanity or proverbial worldly wisdom of pre-1963 popular music, their early lyrics are careless, streetwise, immediate, sensationalistic—the expression of minds without respect for age or experience, interested only in the thrills, desires, and disappointments of the present. . . . Instantaneity defines the pop life and, as such, saturates The Beatles’ music.” —Ian MacDonald, Revolution in the Head (p. 21).
Getting Out from Under The Beatles
In my conversation with researcher Mike Williams for the Jobcast, I told Mike, “I want to believe.” Alas, I was not persuaded. I wanted to get out from under “The Beatles,” but it was not to prove so easy.
If the 2nd Matrix version (“Tavistock Beatles Psyop”) persuades so many, I suspect it is at least partially due to a deep-psychological need to dispel the mythology of the 60s, based on a growing awareness that The Beatles’—and the counterculture’s—influence on the culture at large was less than benign, making the still-ongoing celebrations less than convincing.
The pernicious effects of The Beatles, etc., can be argued without the need to establish any sinister manipulations behind the rise of the Fab Four, however.