It's easy to forget that underneath the hype of the Beatles Anthology merchandising
campaign lies nothing less mundane than a collection of songs. Which isn't to say that the
songs themselves are boring -- far from it. The essence of the Beatles' legacy is the
deceptive ease with which the band assimilated musical influences from J.S. Bach to Chuck
Berry, from Ravi Shankar to Karlheinz Stockhausen. More than mere standards, t... More >