beatlemethisbeatlemethat
Sep 30, 2000, 01:01 AM
They remain the most famous, most influential and best-loved band in pop history. But 30 years after they broke up, barely half of Britain can remember The Beatles' names.
A new survey proves the famous adage - if you can remember the Sixties you weren't there - is not only true for the former flower children of the time.
One in five people today cannot name John Lennon or Sir Paul McCartney as being members of the Fab Four and half of all those questioned think Ringo Starr is best known nowadays not for his drumming - but as the narrator of Thomas The Tank Engine.
Yet, for all the amnesia of successive generations, The Beatles remain the band most music fans would like to see get back together for a reunion tour.
In a survey of more than 1,000 Britons of all ages by online retailer Amazon, 45 per cent said they would prefer a Fab Four comeback to some of the biggest bands of the past few decades, including teen idols Take That, The Spice Girls, rock legends The Doors or punk heroes The Sex Pistols.
More surprisingly, nearly one in three of 18-24 year olds would also prefer The Beatles to reform too. And a quarter of all those questioned believe - wrongly - that they have spent more weeks in the British charts than any other act in pop history.
In fact, despite regularly topping critics and music lovers' polls, they are only seventh behind Elvis Presley - the most successful ever - Cliff Richard, Elton John, Madonna, Michael Jackson and Rod Stewart.
The results come just days before the publication of a new autobiography of the band - the end result of the first collaboration between the three remaining Beatles and John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono since the Beatles split in 1970.
To mark the occasion Amazon.co.uk is opening a special Beatles Store, which will feature discs and memorabilia, to cope with the anticipated increase in demand for Beatles music, films and memorabilia in advance of the publication of the book, The Beatles Anthology, on 5 October this year.
Amazon's music manager Paul Zimmerman said: "The Beatles have a special place in pop culture with people of all ages. We may not all be able to remember their names but we can all hum along to a Beatles song."
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Peace, Love, and Beatles,
Stefanie
Beatle Me This, Beatle Me That (http://beatlemethisbeatlemethat.virtualave.net/)
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"After all is said and done, you can't go pleasing everyone, so screw it"
--John Lennon
A new survey proves the famous adage - if you can remember the Sixties you weren't there - is not only true for the former flower children of the time.
One in five people today cannot name John Lennon or Sir Paul McCartney as being members of the Fab Four and half of all those questioned think Ringo Starr is best known nowadays not for his drumming - but as the narrator of Thomas The Tank Engine.
Yet, for all the amnesia of successive generations, The Beatles remain the band most music fans would like to see get back together for a reunion tour.
In a survey of more than 1,000 Britons of all ages by online retailer Amazon, 45 per cent said they would prefer a Fab Four comeback to some of the biggest bands of the past few decades, including teen idols Take That, The Spice Girls, rock legends The Doors or punk heroes The Sex Pistols.
More surprisingly, nearly one in three of 18-24 year olds would also prefer The Beatles to reform too. And a quarter of all those questioned believe - wrongly - that they have spent more weeks in the British charts than any other act in pop history.
In fact, despite regularly topping critics and music lovers' polls, they are only seventh behind Elvis Presley - the most successful ever - Cliff Richard, Elton John, Madonna, Michael Jackson and Rod Stewart.
The results come just days before the publication of a new autobiography of the band - the end result of the first collaboration between the three remaining Beatles and John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono since the Beatles split in 1970.
To mark the occasion Amazon.co.uk is opening a special Beatles Store, which will feature discs and memorabilia, to cope with the anticipated increase in demand for Beatles music, films and memorabilia in advance of the publication of the book, The Beatles Anthology, on 5 October this year.
Amazon's music manager Paul Zimmerman said: "The Beatles have a special place in pop culture with people of all ages. We may not all be able to remember their names but we can all hum along to a Beatles song."
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Peace, Love, and Beatles,
Stefanie
Beatle Me This, Beatle Me That (http://beatlemethisbeatlemethat.virtualave.net/)
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"After all is said and done, you can't go pleasing everyone, so screw it"
--John Lennon