Scholarly Journal 2

“Beatles, or Stones?”, is a 2007 article from the Believer magazine by John McMillian. The scholarly journal is about how the two bands The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, on who which group to listen to as a teenager. In 1968, Mick Jagger flew from L.A. to London for a birthday party in which the party had many exotic items like Turkish hookahs and they were under black lights. Mick Jagger gave the people an advanced listing to their new album, Beggars Banquet, to play in the club. Paul McCartney walked in and passed Sanchez a copy to the Beatles single “Hey Jude/Revoultion”, which was never heard outside of Abbey Road Studios. The DJ played “ Revolution”, Mick looked peeved as the The Beatles had upstaged them.

When The Rolling Stones arrived in the U.S, The first Associated Press described them as dirtier, streakier, and more disheveled that the Beatles. They described the Beatles as incredibly lovable, amiable fellows. Both bands where fighting for air time on the radio and record sales throughout the 1960s. They supposed “ideological rift” between the two bands was nearly as stylized as the contrasting costumes they wore on The Ed Sullivan Show. In some fundamental way, they believed themselves to be part of the same community as John and Paul, and Mick and Keith. They believed they were all fighting for the same things.