Toronto Star - What if The Beatles had just let it be?

Forty years ago the Beatles called it quits. Looking back, McGill prof Will Straw thinks the timing was perfect.

“It allows them to stand as the perfect example of this historical moment,” Straw observes, “which is when rock becomes both amazingly popular and changes everything around the world, but also becomes sort of arty and introspective and creative. They embodied that more than anybody else. So it’s sort of perfect that they broke up when they did.”