ABSTRACT
It all started normally. I was writing a lecture about how the Beatles are positioned within modern memory. The aim of the week's teaching was to assess how the Beatles' Anthology documentary re-inscribed the past. Well, that was the official justification. In pre-mediated fashion, it was an opportunity for a (then) 27-year old media lecturer to explain to the assembled 18-year-olds how much she despised the Beatles specifically and their boomer audience generally. Even the most polemic of lectures requires some evidence, so I investigated my video collection for traces of post-1960s Beatles' iconography. It was during this process that I rediscovered an old, loving media friend.
