A hilarious 1964 essay on The Beatles (by a notable conservative)

ROCK HISTORY

Rock At Night likes to look at rock history just for laughs. This little nugget by notable conservative William F. Buckley, Jr. was printed in the Boston Globe on September 13, 1964. It was a rant about one of the greatest bands ever–The Beatles. Check it out!

“As evidence of my final measure of devotion to the truth: The Beatles are not merely awful, I would consider it sacrilegious to say anything less than that they are godawful. They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive, to the magic of art, that they qualify as crowned heads of anti-music, even as the imposter popes went down in history as ‘anti-popes.’

“If our children can listen avariciously to the Beatles, it must be because through our genes we transmitted some tendency of disorder toward the kind.”

–William F. Buckley, Jr.