the Beatles as idealist. One of the things that we can see as we
watch the Beatles career unfold, is that, even in the times when they're
failing they're failing trying to do something that
is very idealistic so if they, if they, fail
perhaps because it was because they were naive
or their expectations were too great or something like
that, I think we can see that with
regard to their their their relationship to drugs especially
to psychedelic drugs not so much pot which
I think they used more recreationally than anything else.
But with regards to LSD and other drugs the idea
of sort of exploring some kind of higher awareness, the
turning to the Maharishi and
transcendental meditation making the commitment to
take a couple of months and go to to India to
sort of get closer to the source, that kind of thing.
It's all a very idealistic kind of approach,
the idea that they could start a company and
help other musicians with that company as they,
as they try to do it with Apple Corps.
You know, there was even an ad at one point that they
put in the, the, in, in, in, in the paper that said, you know,
send us your tapes, send us your projects, and you know, we'll help you
produce them, you won't have to go to the big, you know corporate types,
you know, the money grubbers, this kind of thing, the Beatles refer to help.
This was naive, but incredibly idealistic, and
so you can see that sort of consistently.
What you don't see a lot of is them scheming to kind of
maximize their product or really sort of thinking the way the way sort
of in a caricature of the sort of greedy business model.
They really seemed, where they, where they made mistakes they
made them out of naivety and out of unbounded idealism.
And I think this attitude really hooks into the
way they approach their music during this period, that
is the emphasis on the artist approach, you know,
and the, and, and the emphasis on authenticity, being real.
Trying to do something that's
real, that has some real substance to it, that's really trying to achieve
something in the music and try not doing anything cheap or quick or kind
of a a second rate kind of manner, a fast kind of manner
just, which a group like, like The
Beatles could have done considering they're celebrities.
People would have bought almost anything at a, a certain point.
And so I think the combination of
The Beatles' idealism with their sense of authenticity,
they're, they're projecting an image of authenticity and casting
themselves as we're looking as artists in a really
earnest and kind of sincere way, became a very
important model to many who would father them follow them.