Saturday, April 3, 2010

New Beatles Monument in Kazakhstan

In my book, The Long and Winding Road from Blake to the Beatles, I say that the Beatles were the first truly universal cultural touchstone, the avatars of celebrity in the modern world. Here's proof, a statue of the Fab Four in Kazakhstan:




I think there must be Beatles monuments on every continent (except Antarctica).

2 comments:

  1. I loved Leslie Woodhead's recent documentary "How The Beatles Rocked the Kremlin." http://www.thirteen.org/beatles/

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  2. I just noticed you posted this video back in January.

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