Bill Maher
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Fifth one that broke America was I Want to Hold Your Hand.
So we're talking about From Me to You, which is like, you know, again,
A very respectable record of the early period.
Not, again, a profound lyric.
But, you know, we're talking about teenagers playing for teenagers.
You know, on that level.
And it's still got their unmistakable joie de vivre.
You know.
But, yeah, I mean, if you had the choice of playing either From Me to You or A Day in the Life...
Yeah, of course.
Well, Albert Goldman, who wrote the John Lennon biography, took a lot of shit for it, but I happen to think he's an amazing writer.
But he made the point that the Beatles always kept ahead of their audience.
Yeah, they did.
Which is kind of what you're getting at.
And the example he gave was the lead song on Revolver was Taxman.
And he said, can you imagine a subject less interesting to teenagers than taxes?
Which is such an awesome observation.
Yeah.
You know what, kids?
We're talking about taxes now.