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Music Appreciation

jmbar2

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2. I was thinking the other day...

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Tue Jun 23, 2026, 05:48 PM

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The Beatles and the whole mod, Carnaby Street era was barely 20 years after the end of WWII, and the Nazi blitz against London. That would be the equivalent of such events happening in 2006 to us now.

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