The Beatles, live on YouTube


jkottke:

Did you know The Beatles have a YouTube channel? On which they have only posted three videos in the past year? Do you even know who The Beatles are? I mean, they aren’t on Spotify or any other streaming music service so maybe that won’t be an absurd question soon. After all, current and future generations will have a lot to say about the future popularity of the band and if they don’t hear the music, well…

For now, enjoy a live performance of Revolution from 1968.

Jason Kottke makes a very good observation about how a group of artists important to a significant portion of the planetary population of the mid twentieth century could erase themselves from future generations by their (and their heirs) choice of dissemination in current times.