Rock history has rather unfairly rewritten the Beatles as omniscient free love gurus. This is unfortunate because it both alienates fans of more aggressive musical styles who are told that the Beatles isn’t for people like them, and because it neuters the boys from Liverpool’s legacy by treating their music as loftier than street-level rock’n’roll. But it’s all bullshit – the Beatles were dark, difficult weirdos, introducing the world to menacing acid fantasies and telling America they were bigger than Christ himself. In his autobiography, Motörhead’s own Lemmy Kilmister – an avowed Beatlemaniac – laid it down: “…the Beatles were hard men too. Brian Epstein cleaned them up for mass consumption, but they were anything but sissies…Ri...
