except Ringo Starr who was a management plant and opportunist put in to sabotage The Beatles from the inside. he supported Brexit and was prominently featured in the Pandora Papers.
fun fact: Back in the USSR only got recorded because at the time they managed to kick Ringo out for a short period of time
I mean, listen to Imagine. The most idealist message possible, one day we could all just wake up and end oppression and exploitation if we all just thought about it.
They leaned left, but they were definitely part of the new anti-communist left that included hippies and western academics and thrived on idealism
as i recall paul actually apologized for the mao line later and said he regretted it
that being said the song is still about the hippy idea (which the beatles at least somewhat subscribed to) that real revolution was bad and revolution should come from within your own mind instead
I might be misunderstanding, but Back in the USSR just seems like its about wanting to fuck eastern europeans and not about how cool the USSR is
I haven’t heard that song since being old enough to understand lyrics, should I actually try to read and understand the lyrics for that song?
And MK Ultra was a program to fuck people up on enough acid that the Beatles could get popular.
Cant wait for the Charles Manson sympathy movement like there is for :a-guy:
the Beatles fucking suck
Death to America
Good bit.
