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steepholm ([personal profile] steepholm) wrote2022-09-13 11:00 am
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The Beatles as Prophets

This is a question I asked on Facebook some while ago, but never got an answer to. It's only half-facetious.

The Beatles were sometimes reviled by the punks in the 70s, but in 'Polythene Pam' they predicted with eerie accuracy the punk fashions of seven years later: bin liners, kilts, military boots. Coincidence? Did Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren just take their ideas from Beatles lyrics? Was there already some proto-punk scene in 1969 to which the Fab Four were referring? Or is something more supernatural going on? In short, is Abbey Road the Sortes Vergilianae of our time?


Thoughts?
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