The Beatles explored a sonic and emotional template unprecedented in the history of pop music. There’s infinite variety and unparalleled sophistication just in the band’s humor alone. There was McCartney’s cornball dance-hall baggy pants broadness, but also his love for Monty Python and goofball absurdism, as well as John Lennon’s vitriolic black humor, Peter Sellers worship, and stinging social satire.

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Just because something works spectacularly in one context doesn’t mean it will succeed equally well in a wildly different form. James Brown may have been a spectacular entertainer, but that doesn’t mean he should have hit cleanup for the Yankees or been the Secretary of Agriculture.