Tonight's Archive Hour on radio 4 is entitled:

The Grateful Dead are More Important than the Beatles.

Well, there we are then .  🙂

Thanks for the article- will definitely read later.

I don't understand America,  and its politics  are equally baffling to me. I have noted  reactionary tendencies  in elderly hippies in our own country and I can't work it out either.  Something to do with  extreme individualism  in outlook. There are libertarian s of the left  and I  think I might be one,  and there are libertarians of the right. I'll leave it there.

The Beatles thing has become my joke on here,  and I think I should stop.
I know what you mean about the influence- Ian Hunter- now there's a rocker I admire - said people who don't  understand Dylan don't understand rock.n roll.  He is entitled to say what he likes of course, I shall continue to enjoy  my Mott the Hoople records. Dylan i shall not understand/continue to ignore   till I feel.like  hearing him  if ever.

Stupid attention gathering headline but it's actually quite an interesting programme I think (or looks like it will be given a news article I was reading about it yesterday).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0032qmb

Here's the article (unpaywalled) https://archive.is/CB3sZ

Hopefully, one day, somebody will answer as to why so many (particularly American) Deadheads are right wing.  I suspect it's that RW/Utilitarian crossover point, but what do I know...

I literally don't know what to do with the "I have no time for the Beatles" bit.  It's utterly meaningless to me.  I bet a large percentage of the people whose music you have time for had an awful lot of time for the Beatles themselves?  

Tonight's R4   Archive Hour is entitled:

The Grateful Dead are More Important than the Beatles.

Some  folk will know I have no time for Beatles, so I can afford a little smile.