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"You and I have memories
Longer than the road that stretches out ahead"

Two Of us (The Beatles)

Which is what Steve Jobs said in an interview with Bill Gates discussing their rivalry(?) over the last 2 decades.

Which, also is, another Beatles song that has got into my head and is clinging to my synapses like Venom-like gooey.

Beatles therefore were not just "the right men at the right time"- they fulfilled a world's need for change; and continued to change themselves. In the process of musical and philosophical evolution, they have created a monumental body of work: which I now vow to discover more.
I do not claim to have a discerning ear- but when you end up liking so many songs of the same band, in so many different moods, for so many different reasons, you kind of figure that they appeal to you as well, apart from millions, across time.
No real point in denying genius, and being worse off for the lack of it.
But you can't help feeling: Lucky bastards- to have made such immortal music!

By the way: this is some related, heartwarming stuff