[Free ThinkerNY]

It's been more than 25 years since they broke up. Their albums still sell and new compilation albums always sell in the millions. Your wife could use some musical education. You could use a new crystal ball.

[sittnick]

It's been more than 25 years since they broke up. Their albums still sell and new compilation albums always sell in the millions. Your wife could use some musical education. You could use a new crystal ball.

My wife's musical education is well above-average . . . her '60's pop-culture education may be lacking.

Most of the people who buy the new compilations are the same ones who bought the old ones on lp, cassette, 8-track, etc. Heck, I remember getting the "Beatles '62-'66" cassette for my 12th birthday. Aerosmith's greatest hits (their old stuff) still sells in the millions, too.

Oh, I am sure there will be mini-comebacks, just as swing had recently, and ragtime did in the seventies. But it will be no more than that. They will probably be remembered more for their role as '60's pop icon than for the actual songs at some point. Somebody may still hum "Yesterday" in a couple generations, but he will be no more likely to know the writers' names than people who whistle "Old Folks at Home (Swanee River)" know the author Stephen Foster.

[NCC-1701]

"...It's been more than 25 years since they broke up...."

It's been 36 years since The Beatles broke up. Paul announced it on April 10, 1970, the day before Apollo 13 launche for the moon. BTW, today is the 36th anniversary of the explosion that aborted that flight.