Anybody know why John is giving that symbol? Look, the Beatles et al. can't blame us for being obsessed. Not when so much of the stuff generated by them was so wonderfully, almost obstinately eccentric. Especially after Sgt. Pepper, with its cover of eminences, to dig into the Beatles was to encounter a glorious ragbag of art and history, comedy and poetry. Per esempio, dig these crazy liner-notes by Capitol's Dan Davis, plastered on back of the Fabs' 1968 LP Yellow Submarine. And then imagine being a precocious six-year-old reading them and thinking, "Beowulf? Magna Carta? If the Beatles like [...]