Monday, February 10, 2014

Original Reviews of the Beatles on Ed Sullivan

These are great. You have to read what the grown ups thought that night the Beatles appeared on Ed Sullivan. Here's one example, from William F. Buckley Jr...

The Beatles are not merely awful; I would consider it sacrilegious to say anything less than that they are god awful. They are so unbelievably horribly, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art that they qualify as crowned heads of anti-music, even as the imposter popes went down in history as "anti-popes."