The Mail on Sunday

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ON THE face of it, we are dealing with another nutty professor. Armand Leroi argues that The Beatles didn’t really have any influence on music.

Lennon and McCartney, he says, weren’t aggressive enough and ‘just wrote ditties for prepubesce­nt girls’.

Perhaps really popular music always was and always will be possible to dismiss as ‘ditties for prepubesce­nt girls’.

Extraordin­arily powerful, though.

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