Denis: Fab degree from Hope University
LIVERPOOL Hope University is running a one year course in Beatle’s Studies.
Successful students will emerge with a Masters of Arts degree in The Beatles, Popular Music and Society.
Which will be useful.
Mind you, there will be plenty to go at. John, Paul, George and Ringo launched the Swinging 60s as well as those tight little Italian suits they wore and their haircuts caused a hirsute revolution.
They became known as the Moptops and, all of a sudden, after those post war austerity years of short back and sides, long hair was fashionable.
Students will be expected to dissect a day in the life of the group, along with the many hard day’s nights they spent being day trippers and going on magical mystery tours to Penny Lane and Strawberry fields, indulging in strange substances that caused John to believe he was a walrus and seeing Lucy in the sky with diamonds.
They will attempt to trace all their loving and Eleanor Rigby and discuss how prophetic Can’t Buy Me Love really was considering Paul’s entanglement with Heather Mills.
There may be seminars to discuss whether the fifth Beatle was George Best, George Martin or Pete Best and whether the group should ever be forgiven for inspiring possibly the worst song and performer ever in the history of rock and roll: Long Haired Lover From Liverpool by Jimmy Osmond.
The university hopes to invite old Liverpool friends and contemporaries of the group to tell students what it was like during the cultural revolution that was the Swinging 60s.
My only concern as to the academic quality of these guest lecturers.
As I recall (on a good day) if you really lived through the 60s you mainly don’t remember them.
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