I cannot bear assaults of any kind, and it seems to me that the Beatles essentially were out to affront and to assault.
Until I was about 13, somehow I managed to assume that everyone reacted to everything just about as I did. I took it for granted that everyone shared my passion for overcast skies. It came as quite a shock when I discovered that there were actually people who preferred sunshine.
Fingers don't have much to do with playing the piano. The idea that they do must be unlearned.
Perhaps the most important thing that technology does is free the listener to participate in ways that in all previous periods of listening were governed by the performer.
To me, the ideal artist-to-audience relationship is a one-to-zero relationship. The artist should be granted anonymity.
