GRUESOME TWOSOME

Wait a sec, The Parent Trap came out in 1961? Does that mean the Beatles cribbed their yeah yeah yeahs from Let's Get Together? Were they equally influenced by Bill Haley and Hayley Mills? I can accept Let's Get Together as one of the most influential songs in rock history, because, hey, it's a really cool song.

It's probably more than ironic that this three word spurt, which became pop culture Morse code for parodying the Beatles in the early to mid 60s (see, oh, I don't know, Gilligan's Island, the Flintstones), would become the last words we'd hear on record from John. The way he sneers them at the end of Polythene Pam should have told anyone who was paying attention that the dream was over...