Sir Paul Goes To War!

This is the kind of news that makes the page 3 these days.

'War' is in! Everyone wants to show how anti-war they are, or always were.

The word is out that it is not John Lennon, who, we had been led to believe all along, was the most anti-establishment among the 'fab four' ( for us folks born in the 60s and brought up on EPs and LPs they are still the one and only fab four and certainly not Messers Tendulkar, Ganguly, Dravid and Laxman!) but it was actually Sir Paul who was the first to get off the block!
A meeting with the great Bertrand Russell made him realise that a very 'bad' war( the Vietnam war) was being fought somewhere in a corner of Asia. I had no idea that war can be quantified as either 'bad' or 'good'! Trust Sir Paul to sound childishly naive even at this age.

History tells us that the Beatles burnt quite a few guiter strumming fingers making outlandish comments on things that were way beyond their understanding. Most infamous being John's 'Jesus' comment that almost put paid to their carrer. Their dalliances ( and subsequent disenchantment) with Indian mysticism and Indian classical music is well documented. Bottom line is - the Beatles were good at only one thing - making music. And we love them for it. As for their pretentious little misadventures in other areas? There's a French word for it- merd !
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