Radio reviews: Macca's starting to realise just how good The Beatles were
A while back on Twitter, some music dude asked his followers to name the Most Underrated Band of all time. There were many replies, but I think I identified the right candidate: The Beatles.
The request was not for the most undeservedly obscure, it was for the most underrated. And a very famous band can be underrated too. Of course some tweeters thought I was joking, but I would never joke about something like that – I have long believed that many people know the Beatles are good, but few people know just how good they are. How astronomically better they are than almost anybody else.
Turns out that I am not alone in this – that among the people who underrated the Beatles was one Paul McCartney. This at least was my takeaway from a most entertaining discussion on RTÉ1’s Arena between presenter Kay Sheehy and Pat Carty of Hot Press and The Music Machine on Dublin City radio.
Source: Declan Lynch/Declan Lynch
