Boston Globe (September 13, 1964)
2014/ 09/ 13 by jd in Global News
“The Beatles are not merely awful; I would consider it sacrilegious to say anything less than that they are god awful. They are so unbelievably horribly, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art that they qualify as crowned heads of anti-music, even as the imposter popes went down in history as ‘anti-popes.’”
Tags: Anti-music, Art, Awful, Beatles, Dogmatic, Imposter, Insensitive, Unmusical
Los Angeles Times (February 11, 1964)
2014/ 02/ 11 by jd in Global News
“With their bizarre shrubbery, the Beatles are obviously a press agent’s dream combo. Not even their mothers would claim that they sing well. But the hirsute thickets they affect make them rememberable, and they project a certain kittenish charm which drives the immature, shall we say, ape.”
