Why no act on Earth will ever match the Beatles
I'm guessing Adele must be pretty damn chuffed right now: a number one single, an imminent new album that's bound to take top slot and half the planet going nuts with joy that she's back making music.
And good for her. She deserves it. Not only is she a talented woman with an amazing voice and a gift for writing fine songs, she also seems like a thoroughly decent human being.
So I don't suggest she watches ITV's upcoming special The Nation's Favourite Beatles Number One. It'll only depress her.
I've just had a sneak preview of this thing, and I defy anyone not to draw the same admittedly rather bonkers-sounding conclusion as I did. Namely, that the Beatles really were SO good, that their music really was SO ground-breaking, that every act that's followed - yes, seriously, every act, in the 45 years since they split up - must know, deep down, that they can never really match them.
I've singled out Adele not to be mean but purely because she happens to be the most currently prominent example of someone who's trying - writing her own songs, performing them, doing her own thing.
Obviously a billion other solo acts and bands have taken the same route over the years and, like Adele, done very nicely out of it - strings of self-penned hits, legions of fans, untold riches etc. I hardly need to list them.
By: Mike Ward
Source: Daily Star UK
