Beatles Come Together is top of Dept of Culture’s Coronation playlist
The Department of Culture, Media and Sport has compiled a Spotify Playlist for King Charles Coronation. What the purpose of this is, is a little unclear but it could just be the invention of yet another Royal tradition.
The list was compiled broadly on how popular, in terms of numbers of people who listen to or download them, songs are. No doubt however Come Together appealed as a song title symbolising national unity. ELO’s Mr Blue Sky came second although a long way behind Come Together.
Except of course the song isn’t really about that at all. Ian McDonald in his survey of every Beatles track, Revolution in the Head, noted:
Come Together is the key song of the turning of the decade (60s to 70s)isolating a pivotal moment when the free world’s coming generation rejected establishment wisdom, knowledge, ethics and behaviour for a drug inspired relativism which has since undermined the intellectual foundations of western culture.
Other interpretations of the song are available but on McDonald’s take Come Together seems like an interesting and perhaps appropriate choice
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