ONLY TWO ARE LEFT

Forty years ago this week Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band was released to an adoring public. Some say it was the best album ever produced by the Beatles. Others, including this blogger think Rubber Soul was their best. Still others think The White Album or even Abbey Road.

What amazes me is that there are only two of the Beatles still living and Paul is about to surpass the age of "when I'm 64''. My body is telling me that I'm getting older, but the Beatles? Who ever thought they would?

But then again, they always surprised or disappointed me. Their drug use, their Eastern Ravi Shankar, Maheesh Yogi stage. Their spousal relationships. The whole Yoko thing. And their break up.

When they were new, when they were fresh, they were simply the best. The music they wrote and performed from 1964-67 will be sung for years. Some of those lyrics and musical arrangements were so simple, yet they cause you to sing along, at least parts of nearly every song.

It's hard to imagine that 40 years or more has passed. It won't be long until Paul will be the age of a Simon and Garfunkle lyric from Old Friends--"how terribly strange to be 70."