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I Think the Beetles Do Recognize That.
There's a sort of complacency about fifties briton that is probably quite reassuring, but also alienating for them. Ringo and george harris both came from much more modest ringo specially. In sixties british youth culture, you have the generation who have basily grown up in the shadow of the war - they didn't know it at first hand. They're tired of being lectured about it. And i think what the beetles also are, tom, is there absolutely emblematic of that generation that were too young, orbese, to have fought in the war,. Too young ae been massively affected by and are sick of hearing about it