***Disclaimer***
When I've ventured into this territory before, people tell me that the Beatles were too talented, and made it on their own. The Beatles were talented. There were a lot of other talented people, and they didn't get the press the Beatles did. Why did the Beatles get the press and the boosting? There are a lot of talented people out there. To be boosted, you must be compromised.
They were an early prototype of appearing wholesome, hooking in impressionable youth, then redefining themselves into deviancy.
The Beatles were the band that introduced drugs to middle class youth.
Looking back, it was this original album cover for Yesterday and Today that made me realize what was going on (linked, cause kind of disturbing.)
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The blowback from this album cover caused the record company to pull it and release the album with a stock photo of the Beatles posed around a trunk, but Yesterday and Today was the album that marked their definitive move into the mind control techniques used to damage society.
This technique (start out innocent, become a deviant) is used a lot. Check out the first Monkees tv show, then their movie "Head." Check out the change in Miley Cyrus.
There are specific patterns to the way mass media works. The innocence to pervert technique is one of their favorites.
The drug use, the worship of false gods ("My Sweet Lord" if you listen to the background singers is sung to an Indian (dot not feather) deity whom I will not name), murder ("Maxwell's Silver Hammer") and despair (Eleanor Rigby), denial of Christ (not only the infamous "more popular than Jesus" line but Lennon's Imagine)...
...and the Indian Elephant they rode in on.
It's horrifying that all of a sudden in the late 60s we went from (say) Buddy Holly or Elvis or the Beach Boys, into all kinds of depravity in music.
Re To be boosted, you must be compromised.:
That’s a great, but sobering, statement.
In any competitive field (politics, music, film, medicine, business, etc.), we need to look at the super successful with a clear eye.
That’s why Epsteinworked and visited at the prestigious schools: to identify the talented youth, find out their weaknesses, and compromise them for future leverage. C!A does it too.