History for Fun #2

Beware Austerity Eyes That ParalyzedFrom Fact: Doing Without Even After You WinLots imagine how great it would be to have met one or all of the Beatles. What fun to find common ground with that irreverent lot, but here’s the thing, a massive thing. We of stateside spoilage had not a thread in common with these or any Liverpool boys or girls, virtually all of whom knew life in the rawer than we of comparative, if sustained, privilege, ever would. Did postwar Yanks experience rationing, meatless most days, endless austerity as did all four Beatles plus pop faves off the Isles we thought spoke for us? They might not have remembered the war but sure understood scarcity of necessaries afterward. Bombs had stopped falling, but still was shortage of most staples, this to gruel another nine-at-least years, time aplenty for Beatles and contemporaries to know want as way of life. How did they respond to us who had things so easy? Brits still in the 1960’s were rags beside Yank riches, us…