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How the Beatles were in tune with 60s Britain

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The Beetles Are Not Just Pop Music

When the beetles came through in sort of 62, 63, ar they're seen as a very successful pop group that have become a broader pitical and cultural phenomenon. What's unusual about the beetles is that they make the transition quite quickly from being obasically, jus, disposable pot group to making more serious music. And we often forget, i think, that the beetles, they're not just a sut of romantic artists performing in a garret. They are always much more disciplined, much more commercially minded. But one of the albums that's really in their most famous heart is probably pepper sergeant - which taps into this lonely nameless soldier who wants peace but can't find it

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