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long live the beatles
Lee talking about the beatles
Ranaldo: 'I chose the first American Beatles record, 'Meet The Beatles', because it was the beginning of this intense cultural wave for everyone. For me it was the beginning of this long interest in music that's come all this way to where I am right now. It all started with them, because you can move from their music in all different directions. You can move straight through rock and roll, up through to punk, you could go back to Chuck Berry, you could jump over to Cage, Stockhausen and Varèse. The Beatles were at the nexus when all of those things were coming together. It was an interesting period that they kind of tapped into and triggered in a way, their records started so simple and then progressed to these complex symphonic masterpieces. We could start a really long discussion and travel all through 20th century music and their place in it and pop music's place in 20th century music.'
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