On the other hand, I felt no need to buy 1967-1970 (aka Blue) because I had the original albums with those songs - including the elusive, out-of-print Hey Jude (aka The Beatles Again) collection of singles and B-sides that has yet to be reissued. In 1973, I readily scooped up 1962-1966 (aka Red), but I didn’t have some of the albums the collection’s 26 songs came from. However, he is partly correct is stating that the double 70 LPs released in 1973 served as “introductions for fans that came aboard after the Beatles broke up.” That and the fact that EMI knew the group’s music transcended time and space, that virtually everything they touched turned to gold, and that this set of posthumous releases was only the beginning of innumerable others to follow. Or maybe in my case, born two years after Flanagan’s cut-off date, they were everything. He may have been more accurate in saying that for just about anyone with two ears born after 1945, the Beatles were simply “it”. Flanagan (who was born in 1955) came up with that particular range defies any sort of reasoning. In the liner notes for the 2010 remasters of the Beatles’ compilations 70, journalist Bill Flanagan writes that the group’s “greatest impact was on people born between 19.” Balderdash! How Mr.
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