Hello, Goodbye Christianity

The Beatles were boomers, through and through. Their 1966 record Revolver features—along with paradigm-shifting studio trickery and subversive lyrics about pot—an earnest complaint about having to pay too much income tax (“Taxman”). John Lennon may have been investigated by the CIA as a suspected communist, but his leftist credentials were forever tainted by “Revolution,” a track which seemed to knock the wind out of Marxist sails with its hopeful prediction that “it’s gonna be alright.” They were not as revolutionary as some suppose.