Journalist John Harris chose John Lennon for his Great Life on Radio 4 last night.
He made rather much of how the early Beatles - & John in particular - seemed to play with gender in a way that seems fairly commonplace now but which then went very much against the grain of the macho world of rock’n’roll.
That reminded me of my shock at finding that The Beatles had not made all that great an impression in the Caribbean of the mid-60s. ‘They sound like girls!’
