{"id":999,"date":"2010-11-19T07:45:56","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T11:45:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-11-19T08:46:13","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T12:46:13","slug":"lennon-and-mccartney-as-cult-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/lennon-and-mccartney-as-cult-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"Lennon & McCartney As Cult Artists"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Somehow this post primes me for this weekend’s coming edition of<\/em> Saturday Night Shut-In. The cache of the rock cult artist is a wonder to behold. When this post was first launched, it was hard for us to imagine Lennon and McCartney as cult artists, but a few you could dream. As I revisit this I think about other artists who might have benefitted from cult status – and artists who once were cult figures who became harder to like after “graduating” from that status.<\/em><\/p>\n

This post initially appeared 11\/17\/07.<\/code><\/p>\n

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Hey, where’ve I seen this guy?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

I was reading an interview with Robyn Hitchcock<\/strong> that had the following Q&A in it:<\/p>\n

Interviewer:<\/strong> Has it ever offended you that you are constantly mentioned as a cult musician?<\/p>\n

Robyn Hitchcock:<\/strong> Not at all. I always wanted to be in a cult band but I just didn’t know what that meant. All the people I liked when I started playing music were people like Captain Beefheart, Arthur Lee, Syd Barrett, Nick Drake, and a bunch of others. I have always loved The Beatles<\/strong> and obviously they are the biggest band of all time, but I think if they were not all together, Lennon and McCartney could’ve easily been cult figures themselves. I’m really quite pleased where I am right now.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m fascinated by this thought of John and Paul (and George<\/strong> for that matter) as potential cult artists if there had never been a Beatles.<\/p>\n

Might they have only been cult artists?<\/em> Or would the talent and drive have pushed them beyond cult artist status as individuals? If they were cult artists, what other cult artist might they have been most like?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Somehow this post primes me for this weekend’s coming edition of Saturday Night Shut-In. The cache of the rock cult artist is a wonder to behold. When this post was first launched, it was hard for us to imagine Lennon and McCartney as cult artists, but a few you could dream. As I revisit this […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}