Blog: State Magazine

Anyone who has any love for any tiny fraction of the millions of hours of pop music that has come out since 1970 has to have a tricky relationship with The Beatles . The Clash's staggeringly incorrect prediction that 'phoney Beatlemania has bitten the dust' was an early expression of this; another was the Sex Pistols' sacking of Glen Matlock in February 1977. His offence? He was quite fond of the Fabs. It could not have been that Joe Strummer and Johnny Rotten saw nothing at all in the Beatles. That's really, really hard to do. Almost every violent [...]