[Steve_Seattle]

"Which popular musician from his generation is more suitable for posterity then?"

I liked The Animals before Eric Burdon started taking LSD and became messianic.

[Borges]

A lot of the Animals output wasn’t even self written. Especially before the late 60s.

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I liked The Animals before Eric Burdon started taking LSD and became messianic.

It seems like Beatles stuff isn't used that often for background music in movies and TV. I guess they don't need the money, but it may mean that when young people imagine the Sixties the Beatles are less prominent than they actually were at the time.