YEAH, YEAH, YEAH Poetry Into Its Own
[From the “Trade Winds” column in the “Saturday Review.] For the most part, bestsellers remain elusively unpredictable. If anyone had forecast, prior to the current era, that a 21,000,000 dollars fortune would hang on such lyric poetry as the following, there would have been severe psychiatric repercussions: Oh, yeah, you got that sumpin’ I think you’ll understand When 1 feel that sumpin’ I wanna hold your hand It would be unfair, however, to suggest that the poetic abilities of the Beatles are limited to such lightly spontaneous cansonets as this. Other efforts by the four gentlemen often strike rich veins of metaphysical passion: She loves you Yeah yeah, yeah She loves you Yeah, yeah, yeah : . .
It’s a comfort of sorts to realise that poetry is at long last coming into its own commercially. These phrases and others like them are going for about 100.000 dollars the word, at current market rates.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30478, 27 June 1964, Page 4
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