Which Beatles' songs risk being cancelled? (with Peter Doggett)

Critically acclaimed author Peter Doggett discusses with Words of Wisdom cancel culture and the wider ramifications for The Beatles' catalogue.

Peter's book You Never Give Me Your Money: The Battle for the Soul of The Beatles is essential reading for any fan, together with The Art and Music of John Lennon. Peter's other titles include: Are You Ready for the Country, There's a Riot Going On, The Man Who Sold the World: David Bowie and the 1970s, Growing Up and Electric Shock: From the Gramophone to the iPhone: 125 Years of Pop Music.

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[frednerk]

This discussion deserves a wider audience.

[henryhemming]

Great discussion. Good to have something so granular about the Beatles. Thanks you both. My new year's resolution is to cancel Cancel Culture.

[gailfg]

Nice conversation, but please no bans, no mandates, let people, create, live, love life, music, warts and all, as the majority wishes, and give so much credence to the cancel culture fringes. Thank you

[UnderTheCovers]

"cancel culture" is now presently getting canceled.

[jnagarya]

The real issue in the South was tha "The Beatles" weren't segregationists -- they covered songs by Black artists.

[Madkid]

How will something that doesn’t exist impact the Beatles? I think they’ll be fine.

[Yrsdgcvvhh]

Best way to cancel the "cancel culture" is to stop talking about it.

[chrisst]

I think they'll disappear entirely. Hey Jude or Yellow Submarine - they might linger, a singalong song and a children's song. The media finds it easier to promote a single artist and their composition is insufficiently diverse. Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, Madonna: they're the future.

[mheff]

Taylor Swift could say it today and absolutely nobody important would give a damn. Her standing with popular culture would go up in fact.