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American 🇺🇸 Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

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“I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit.
I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off.

I reply, 'The Beatles did”.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

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@BeatlesPraise The era of The Beatles may have been over in Yugoslavia but not in the rest of the world.
I hope that is what he was implying.

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Wow, I’m speechless.

Victor I know so many people who are frustrated with modern society in America and can’t figure out why. They seek help to understand, therapy, meditation, medication.

I am going to tell them I came across an essay they should read which will clear things up for them, give them the clarity they need.

I am then going to send your essay via email, text, or print it out and hand it to everyone I know and tell them to read it. Brilliant.

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@jk_rowling The top one is straight, the bottom one is on a left to right angel up.
Very different.

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@IngrahamAngle The worst song ever.
This bunch of loony lefties got together and tried to top Band Aids amazing song “Do they know it’s Christmas.” They not only failed miserably in that regard, but put together one of the worst songs ever recorded.

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Absolutely 100% no one,
Any woman from Hollywood, music, performing arts, TV, politics, etc.

Condoleezza Rice has her detractors, as does, JK Rowling.

Queen Elizabeth yes, but she’s gone.

Not in the current climate, this country is divided big time, no one.

Some said Carol Burnett, no one remembers who she is, and quite frankly she was never very likable.

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Well we all know that The Beatles were influenced/challenged by the great Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys.
They upped their game and took popular music to never before seen heights.
As I have said, the greatest band ever were appropriately the most talented. The Beatles. I love to also add, the greatest super group ever!!
Those four guys, talent, talent, talent, talent.

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@BeatlesPraise You just name the people I didn’t want to.
Also there was a lot of Perry Como, many from his era clogging up the airwaves.

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When I was 7 and 8 years old 1962-63 I listened to the transistor radio under my pillow. That is where I receive what I call my pre Beatles music education, and thank God I did.
AM radio was still playing all the 1950's Rock & Roll music. Little Richard, Buddy Holly, Elvis, Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, etc.
They were playing Doo Wop, all of it, wonderful music. I consider the exposure I had to Doo Wop to be very important in my music education. They also played all the wonderful late 50's early 60's instrumental groups They were also playing all the amazing Girl Groups, the likes of Rick Nelson, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, etc.
In the pre Beatles era of 62,63 they were playing The Four Season's, early Beach Boys, early Motown. Great songs like Louie Louie would pop, many amazing gems similar to Louie Louie became hits.
That being said, there was just too many holes, let's call them dead spots, dead air in music, it makes zero sense to list the many artist's that made it so. Music wise 1955 to 1963 was nothing like what was about to come in the form of The Beatles in February 1964. Just selling records, no one ever sold records like the Beatles.
In late 1963 it was inconceivable what would happen to pop music within a year. Do you remember how many kids picked up guitar's and formed bands. The Beatles changed music and the world. Neither would ever be the same.

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@RealJamesWoods The greatest band ever and appropriately the most talented are The Beatles.
They are all the greatest Super Group.
Get it.
If they never were, where would music have gone. Yes they were truly a miracle.
There is no reason to be contrar here, they just changed the world.

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@BeatlesPraise I never heard this quote. Great Stuff!!

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I will continue to follow your site.
I would love to see more comments- if they exist- of late 50’s and 1960’s people, of whatever ideology, on how The Beatles not only changed every facet of Music, but unquestionably changed the world.

Have you ever posted anything from Jane Pauley? I know she is a huge Beatles fan, and has said many times The Beatles changed the world.

Did you ever read Walter Cronkite’s comments about how his two daughters never ask him to meet any of the many political figures he knew, but asked him to get them into The Ed Sullivan Show that Sunday in February 1964, and yes he did.

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@BeatlesPraise How disingenuous of you.
I called you out on your obvious DEI ideology and I’m the bad guy.
Your response speaks volumes., especially the classic ending.

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@BeatlesPraise The Beatles where never an underground culture.
She doesn't know what she is talking about
talk about missing the point.

The Beatles seemed to us then like the punks seemed to the next generation.
Huh. Is she for real.

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@jackfowler I’ve read a lot of Sowell and Steele therefore I’m familiar with the subject.
In your review of the book you put it in such a fresh way.
Wouldn’t it be great if everyone knew the reality.

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@jackfowler Jack your article was great! Take a bow!

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A Lubitsch film is a must.

Trouble in Paradise
His Girl Friday
To Be or Not to Be
It Happened One Night
The Thin Man
The Lady Eve
The Palm Beach Story
Ball of Fire
The Music Box 1932 Short
Young Frankenstein

Mark, no one can top that.
Of course that is my humble opinion. lol 😂

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@BeatlesPraise An the irony of it all is there still making people feel alive- yes there still doing it- in 2026.

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@IngrahamAngle She needs to go away.
She has zero chance of being the Democratic Nominee for President in 2028.
Not that the candidate who is will be any brighter.

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Matt,
I look at it in a different way.
Take Ken Burns, the left wing lunatic, and his PBS Civil War series.
From my initial viewing, I never believed anything that was said in that documentary.
The left loved it and Ken Burns reward, a forum to exclusively produce bias left wing documentaries about every major event and important person in America History.
All lies, brainwashing, DEI, Woke, PBS, NPR nonsense.
His Thomas Jefferson PBS Documentary is criminally.
In reality Ken Burns is a fraud.
Every one of his Documentaries is filled with blatant lies and inaccuracies.