Can the beatles still be innocent?

"a lot of their songs were designed to get kids into drugs".

Yes, their rise to fame was all a ruse, a well thought out conspiracy with the intent of getting children to use drugs. ::rolling eyes::

You need a better thesis.

I wonder if you can substantiate your claim that "a lot of their songs were designed to get kids into drugs".

Let it be up to the people who listen to their music. There is probably plenty of documentaries and books describing the history of the band, so if anyone wants to know about the good and bad sides of the musicians' lives, it will be possible to do so.

Funnily enough, listening to A Day in the Life as I read this. I'm not sure their aim was 'to get kids into drugs', regardless of the references to drugs. You're being daft.

I am not innocent. You are not innocent. No one is innocent.

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These comments though. Haha WTF ^^^

I like "All My Loving".

...What are we doing here again?

True fans know what you are referring to...

They are still fans!

I guess. In my mind the beatles are sort of like Maroon 5 in that they started out as a more innocent lovey band that morphed into a harder less pop and more serious topics like drugs and sex. Except maroon 5 music is to teach kids into having sex as opposed to the beatles using drugs. The Beatles just get rated higher because they are from the 60s

john even said they initially formed a band to get groupies. but that doesnt make them any less genuine and protrude them as less passionate. they speak upon a lot of different topics. and the drug references are so subtle.

No. NOBODY is innocent.

i think that they still remain innocent because all the old people that control the media now a days grew up listening to the beatles there for there cool with so thats how the rest of the world will veiw the beatls even though everybody know what they were up to with the drugs and all that does that make sense or am i stupid?

Wow, what a strange take on a music group.
It seems almost everybody has marital problems and to single Lennon out is pretty simplistic.
As for the drugs, it was a different time, with different social standards and many of the "drugs" they were using and writing about were perfectly legal. If you weren't alive then, you couldn't possibly understand the world then. Growing up under the threat of nuclear annihilation created a "live for today" (because you probably won't be alive tomorrow) attitude in the young people, which translated into a rather hedonistic, but necessary, view of life.
Their "their controversial public statements" were at times only quips by giddy young men in the throws of a popularity that few, if any, had ever had before. John's statement that more people had heard of the Beatles than Jesus may have been politically incorrect, but it was absolutely, 100% true!
Epstein's death was not responsible for any bitterness, as far as I remember, but John's death was a great tragedy to many world wide. I often wonder how different the world might be today, had he not been murdered.
I doubt that anyone would class the Beatles as a band with a squeaky clean image, but rather as innovators and creative musical geniuses.
"A kid-friendly group" or not, for a young person who appreciates music and wishes to immerse themselves in musical history, the Beatles are a must.

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