Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties

[Carvill John]

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> MacDonald demonstrates that, among the Beatles’ members, it was John
> Lennon who was most strongly associated with both the New Left and
> with psychedelic pacifism, while at the same time acknowledging
> Lennon's complex and contradictory attitudes towards these subjects.
> Paul McCartney, despite his dabblings with the artistic avant garde,
> is most representative of mainstream thought and behaviour. George
> Harrison, through his faith in Indian religion, is proposed as the
> only Beatle to offer a coherent belief system that would offer an
> alternative to the cultural quandaries thrown up by the 1960s.
 
 
 
It is indeed an interesting article, and a cut above the average wikipedia entry. I would urge caurion though, particularly with that paragraph, above. I don't think it's true that McCartney was/is 'most representative of mainstream thought and behaviour', and - more importantly - I don't think MacDOnald thought that either.
 
 
Best to get a copy of teh book and read it yourselves.
 
 
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