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The Beatles’ music lives on

　　The news that albums by the pop and rock band The Beatles(披头士乐队)are soon to be re-released worldwide is sure to delight their fans．The teenagers, now adults, who listened to them back in the 1960s likely already own most of their albums．

　　The re-relese of The Beatles’ music catalogue(目录)is clearly aimed at today's teenagers who want to discover for themselves the pop band their parents adored．It's proof of the genius(天才)of the fantastic four's music that today's teenage generation want to listen to them．

　　A four-member band from Liverpool, England, that formed in 1960 and broke up in 1970, the Beatles were one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed(称赞)bands in the history of popular music．The two most famous band members were Paul McCartney and John Lennon．

　　The band's innovative(创新的)music and cultural impact helped define the 1960s, and their influence on pop culture is still evident today．When the US music magazine Rolling Stone made a list in 2004 of the 100 greatest artists of all time, it surprised no one that they gave The Beatles the top spot of number one．

　　So why nearly 40 years after the hand's split are they still so popular? Accoding to Barry Miles, Paul McCarthey's biographer(传记作者), the answer is that they were the first of their kind．“They were essentially(本质上地)the first rock band．The Beatles were the first of the British singer-songwriting bands and they just hapened to be the best．They were the first band to play in stadiums, to have their own products, they were ground-breaing in every way, ”he said．

　　They were also unbelievably talented, as Miles also pointed out, “ They had great performing and songwriting talent, not only John and Paul, but George wrote some fantastic songs and the likelihood of having three gifted songwriters in the same band is very remote．”

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　　Olaf Stapledon wrote a book called First and Last Men, in which he looked millions of years ahead．He told of different men and of strange civilisations(文明)，broken up by long dark ages' in between．In his view, what is called the present time is no more than a moment in human history and we are just the First Men．In 2,000 million years from now there will be the Eighteenth or Last Men．

　　However, most of our ideas about the future are really very short-sighted．Perhaps we can see some possibilities for the next fifty years．But the next hundred?The next thousand?The next million?That's much more difficult．

　　When men and women lived by hunting 50,000 years ago, how could they even begin to picture modern life?Yet to men of 50,000 years from now, we may seem as primitive(原始的)in our ideas as the Stone-Age hunters do to us．Perhaps they will spend their days gollocking to make new spundels, or struggling with their ballalators through the cribe．These words, which I have just made up, have to stand for things and ideas that we simply can't think of．

　　So why bother even to try imagining life far in the future?Here are two reasons．First, unless we remember how short our own lives are compared with the whole human history, we are likely to think our own interets are much more important than they really are．If we make the earth a poor place to live on becaus we are careless or greedy(贪婪)or quarrelsome, our grandchildren will not bother to think of excuses for us．

　　Second, by trying to escape from present interests and imagine life far in the future, we may arrive at quite fresh ideas that we can use ourselves．For example, if we imagine that in the future men may give up farming, we can think of trying it now．So set your imagination free when you think about the future．

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