D'Arby was playing the More Popular than Jesus card. Only the Beatles were more popular, by at least some measures, than Jesus at the time Lennon made his little joke.
The one to gag on is the Bee Gees, really. And that's just it, no one sad the Monkees were the new Beatles, just that they were the Pre-Fab Four...
Meanwhile, the actual New Beatles Kinda Sorta tended to run to CCR, then the mid-'70s Fleetwood Mac, then just maybe the Police...you'll note somewhat similar stability problems along with the vastness of their popularity (and often very successful attempts at adventurous yet still utterly accessible pop/rock) over a similar handful of years...and an audience beyond their album-buying base, which would be less true of, say, Led Zep (yawn) or KISS (snore), however large (or young) that might be...
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I guess they never heard of The Monkees.
Terence Trent D'Arby? Huh?
Jeff
Instead of "huh," I said, "WTF?"
As they say on WTIX-FM every Sunday morning just before the two-hour "Breakfast with the Beatles": For there will never be another Beatles.
D'Arby was playing the More Popular than Jesus card. Only the Beatles were more popular, by at least some measures, than Jesus at the time Lennon made his little joke.
The one to gag on is the Bee Gees, really. And that's just it, no one sad the Monkees were the new Beatles, just that they were the Pre-Fab Four...
Meanwhile, the actual New Beatles Kinda Sorta tended to run to CCR, then the mid-'70s Fleetwood Mac, then just maybe the Police...you'll note somewhat similar stability problems along with the vastness of their popularity (and often very successful attempts at adventurous yet still utterly accessible pop/rock) over a similar handful of years...and an audience beyond their album-buying base, which would be less true of, say, Led Zep (yawn) or KISS (snore), however large (or young) that might be...
I liked Fleetwood Mac and especially CCR. Never warmed up to the Police.
The Police were certainly working the creep vibe a bit too hard.
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