Pop Culture Origin Story!

Tonight is our McCartney night.  A bunch of performers will gather at a little coffeehouse and play Paul McCartney songs.  We will be putting our band thru the McCartney blender.  We are backing up some folks and doing a mini-set of our own...  our set looks like this:


She Came in Thru the Bathroom Window
Why Don't We Do It in the Road
I Saw Her Standing There
I'm Down
Let It Be
I've Got a Feeling
Lady Madonna
The Word


A pretty quirky and amazing collection of songs.  There are so many other great tunes that others will be playing.  Here's the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show all those years ago.  Cute little guys in matching suits.  They seemed so happy and exuberant.  It was only later we found out that both John and Paul had lost their mothers at a young age.  And that Lennon especially, was a very flinty, bitter and sarcastic character.

But those guys channeled that angst into shiny little pop gems about love.  And it was all so captivating.  Their story is the pop culture origin story.  Rock and Roll was birthed in Sun Studios by Elvis.  But pop culture exploded into a massive global phenomenon with the Beatles.  Changed the world for sure...