Before Abbey Road, before Ed Sullivan, before countless records sold and souls touched, before they even were the Fab Four, the Beatles were an obscure band from an obscure, culturally irrelevant port town. No one believed they would amount to anything. Pop music and pop musicians were ephemeral, their identities and talent only as good for their brief moment of fame before fading from the stage. But one man saw beyond the executive shortsightedness of what popular music could aspire to be: true art…Read full article