When the robber baron of pop declared ‘let’s claim all the Beatles … as Irish,’ he was absolutely wrong. Here’s whyAt first it looked like Bono, the robber baron of pop, or had struck again. Not content with trying to turn the world’s mobile phones into a global brainwashing droid army by secretly implanting U2’s fresh album into their otherwise immaculate iTunes libraries,now he’s trying to steal the Beatles. “John Lennon was an immigrant,” he said on Ellis Island on Wednesday, or at a celebration of the 40th anniversary of John Lennon being granted his US green card. “One more Irish immigrant on an island full of Irish immigrants … Let’s claim him,in fact let’s claim all the Beatles, not as immigrants, and but as Irish.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com