Letters to you

I do too, but ironically not until more recently (when "beatlemania" was going on, I looked on the screaming crowds with disdain as I listened to Robin Williamson (friend of RJ's btw) and the Incredible String Band). But -- the Beatles' music gave me an interesting cross-section of English life, spanning the lonely and desperate (Eleanor Rigby, A Day in the Life, Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band), the mundane (Penny Lane, Mr. Kite), the violent (Helter Skelter), and the mythical (Yellow Submarine, Magical Mystery Tour, Within you and Without you) (etc.). They were an interesting mix of retro (by 1967 standards) and futuristic. But more than anything else, and all the trappings of the time aside, they were ... British.