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Re: Re: The Beatles -- Overrated?
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Originally posted by AKA2D '91
I think so! 
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I think it is a cultural thing in some sense.
When I was a kid I grew up listening to my Mom's music- which was anything from Mighty Sparrow to The Supremes (my Mom was a Diana Ross FANATIC).
The Beatles were not in her collection. She liked them, she had listened to them when she was young, but it wasn't HER music. I was exposed to them mostly through the school I attended (where everyone and their parents loved them) and in the media.
So I think they are a huge part of mainstream culture, but not part of the cultural landscape for most blacks.
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