The computer kind of apple is a cult, but the fruit and musical kind are sheer genius. One comes in one of nature’s most perfect, self-contained packages, while the other typically comes with some sort of delicious harmony or nutritious lyrical composition that feeds body and soul. They talk about the benefits of an apple a day – today my friends, you shall have it.
It is “a decisive moment in the history of Western civilization.”
The Times, a British daily, on the release of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
When I was a boy The Beatles had their own Saturday morning TV cartoon. The cartoon Fabs had big noses and the famous haircuts, and every episode was essentially the same: one of the four (usually Ringo, great actor that Ringo) would do something out of bounds on the way to a concert, putting the band in a bind, whereby they would be chased by screaming girls and law enforcement. Naturally, the Liverpudlians made the gig just in time and the shenanigans would end with a song. I always wondered why all the Brit cops were named “Bobby.”