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The Beatles Have Become a Museum · Mark and Pete

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  The Beatles have become a museum.
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  Welcome to Mark and Pete. Only The Beatles, I think, could
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  turn standing on a cold roof into Cent in central London,
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  into a near religious pilgrimage site.
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  Yes, this is Mark and Pete's two blokes with half an opinion.
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  Now here's our first thought. The Beatles get back again.
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  When musics decides to get back or come together to please
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  please me. Should yesterday be another day
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  in the life or should we just let it be?
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  Yes, once again here we are, another Beatles story.
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  Well, remarkably, The Beatles are turning the building where
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  they play their last ever gig into an exhibition place.
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  Yes, it's a museum for fans. Wow.
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  I certainly am looking forward to this.
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  Yes, the Grade 2 listed a mansion 3 Savile Row, which
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  served as the band's headquarters between 1968 and
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  1972, even when the the actual band had split up.
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  But commercially, they actually continued.
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  And of course, the brand lives on.
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  Let It Be was the basement recording, and many people still
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  think that that's a great piece of music still stands up today.
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  Mr. Pete, here we go, yet another story, more than 50
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  years after the actual band split up, and yet now we've
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  actually got a pilgrimage, no longer just simply at the Cavern
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  in Liverpool, but in London. What say you about this?
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  Yes, The Beatles are are an enduring story, aren't they?
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  They I mean, The thing is, I guess you would argue Mr. Mark
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  Thatchy. They were pretty good at
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  songwriting and performing was was reasonable as well.
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  So, you know, they perhaps there is a good reason, but there are
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  other talented artists that don't get quite the same
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  attention as The Beatles. And I think it's because here's
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  my 2 penths on why it is The Beatles were at the beginning of
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  that sort of style. You know, there's a band of
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  four, I was going to say attractive young men, four young
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  men. And so they are then, of course,
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  attractive to the young girls who watch them.
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  Is it was sort of a like a phenomenon at the time.
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  And it was the start of that sort of lively music being as
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  popular as it was bringing in different elements of music to
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  create this unique sound. So because they were the start
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  of something, they become the most famous.
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  But also, I would say it's enduring because especially
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  today, these days, I say, being old and cynical, the music, the
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  popular music or pop music of today just isn't anywhere near
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  the standard that it was back in the day of The Beatles.
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  So what have we got to celebrate these days?
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  Well, let's go back and celebrate The Beatles.
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  So I think it will work. I know it's you introduce to say
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  Paul McCartney's going to do that.
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  He must have quite considerable backing to, to create this
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  museum experience. But it's it's something I think
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  that will be very popular because The Beatles remain
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  popular for the cynical reasons I've just said.
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  Well, I agree with you. And in my opinion, you know, by
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  far they're they were probably one of the most creative bands
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  of all time. And you know, ironically, as
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  you've mentioned, you know, a lot of their songs in have
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  endured both in singles and albums.
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  Now, Sir Paul McCartney has told the media that he wanted fans to
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  have an official Beatles destination but in London.
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  And he said that tourists can come to England and they can go
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  to Abbey Road. They can then go on inside and
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  then go around to enjoy the rest of the the experience.
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  I believe that the idea being is that as you go up to the
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  rooftop, which is where they had their last concert, which
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  certainly upset at the time in 1969, a lot of the police and it
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  was actually curtailed ironically.
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  But you as a member of public could be a beetle.
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  So that's the idea is you becomes interactive.
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  It is interesting that going to beetles, places where the
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  beetles have done things, it can be almost like a spiritual
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  pilgrimage people would make. Christians would make
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  pilgrimages to pilgrimages to the Holy Land and to certain
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  shrines in the country where religious things happen.
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  I know in the the Muslim faith there is still the tradition of
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  people making the big pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in a
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  lifetime. And preferably you go there
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  several times and go on your pilgrimage.
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  This is like a spiritual pilgrimage going to be where
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  this iconic, famous moment. I mean, at the time I think
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  there were the police got involved because there were
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  complaints about the noise when they performed on the roof.
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  I think I rightly say that. But these days you're seen as
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  sort of this great moment. And I think it the it's like a
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  spiritual pilgrimage. But can the, I mean, a question,
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  just a philosophical question, can it take the weight?
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  I mean, where people wanting to have that spiritual experience,
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  getting in touch with something with the greatness of The
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  Beatles or the greatness of pop music, which may as have
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  affected them deeply, you know, will it let them down
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  ultimately? I don't know.
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  It's just sort of a question to. Ask well, there is an irony in
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  what you're saying here because John Lennon at the time in the
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  1960s famously said The Beatles have become more, more popular
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  than Jesus Christ. And unfortunately, the time, the
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  context at the context of the time, it, it was really taken
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  out of context. But the point being is, of
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  course, that's when they the whole thing turned in America.
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  And of course they got into a lot of trouble.
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  Now it's interesting, isn't it, that, you know, when we look at
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  the the from an entertainment perspective, I think that people
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  don't just listen to the music. I think that they also follow
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  the brand. They follow the fashion because
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  one of the things that, you know, Beatlemania offered was
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  entertainment in many different ways.
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  They inspired, you know, the flop top, mop top, haircuts.
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  They then went on to obviously the flower power arena and many
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  other different things. So it's interesting within a
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  very short time frame between 1962 and 1970 when they were
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  recording, that's when not only did the music, you know, change
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  the world, but also some of the other things which was around
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  the, the business side. Now, we know that the The
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  Beatles over the years have had battlegrounds with, you know,
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  the, the rights of royalties and many other things there.
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  But in this particular case, I actually do agree that I think
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  it's a very clever idea. Whether it will work and whether
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  it will actually gain enough money over time, well, let's
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  see. Time will tell.
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  But I I'd ask you, Mr. Peed, why have it there?
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  Why not necessarily? Why not have a museum in other
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  parts? So here's an idea, folks.
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  So here, let's ask support McCartney to come onto the onto
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  the show. Why not have one at say in
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  America, some of the last stadiums that they had the
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  concerts there. Why not do some in Japan?
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  Why not do some in Australia? They toured the world at the
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  time. So why not have a, you know, a
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  Beatles museum in in different countries?
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  We can make. It.
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  Tammania Land. Well, yes, why not?
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  Why not Indeed. Yeah.
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  So I, I mean, it's interesting, I was sort of asking the
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  question earlier what it was of this, this spiritual experience
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  of people getting in touch with music.
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  I don't think it's in competition with Christianity or
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  other religious experiences. I think what it is, is it's an,
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  an innate desire to get in touch with greatness, not thinking
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  that, you know, Paul McCartney as a St. or a great man or
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  whatever it is. But it's the, it's that the way
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  that the music touched them and affected them, as you say, made
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  huge changes in society, but music changes people's lives and
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  it's, it's like the soundtrack to important parts in their
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  lives. So I, I, I, I don't see a
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  problem with them doing that. It may be, but I think that
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  maybe that that this particular choice of venue is the best
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  because of that iconic performance on its very roof.
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  You don't get that in the world. So I think that's why it seems
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  to be a brilliant place, maybe bringing a few more tourists
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  into Britain and boost our economy in these troubling
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  times. Well, I agree with you.
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