well, since you asked: not if its the beatles. ;-) we (and by 'we' i mean me and at least 5 friends of mine) relatively younger people tend to dismiss them (the beatles) as a bit of wishful thinking on the part of the previous generation, dressing up the pop of their generation as some sort of deep art.
Now, now. It's certainly not deep art, but it's not manufactured commercial pop culture either.
The beatles came of age in a relatively optimistic decade, the sixties, when Britain was finally off rations, when opportunities were a little more equa, and when the nightmare of depression and world war had receded a bit. No wonder that they sound impossibly innocent and optimistic to our ears. Their music is a combination of ska, bluesy American rock, and English music hall. Both my kids took to it instantly round about the age of 8 and listened to it for a few years. Lennon's "Working Class Hero" and "Imagine" will be around for a while. And I think they deserve some thanks for disbanding early and not boring everyone to tears, like the Stones.
Joanna
