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The Beatles, a rich topic to explore with their legacy and impact on music. There's so much to unpack about the lyrical themes and musical composition of their songs. Here we look at the context of when each song was written, the personal experiences that inspired the Beatles and their social and cultural impact.

Did you know, The Beatles were futuristic prophets who actually wrote about quantum physics and the nature of reality? For example, the Lennon lyric 'nothing is real' is an epithet from Niels Bohr which is often used as a reference to the philosophical implications of quantum physics and how our understanding of reality can be called into question. McCartney wrote Here, There and Everywhere which describes the process of superposition, a core concept of quantum physics, referring to how a particle can exist in multiple states at the same time.

His song The fool on the hill refers to Buckminster Fuller, a philosopher and futurist who was known for his unique perspective and innovative ideas. Fuller's ideas could certainly be seen as "foolish" by the mainstream, so it's not a stretch to say that The Beatles may have been inspired by him when writing The Fool on the Hill.

The Beatles were channelling these concepts in their songs, their creative process was tapping into the collective unconscious. Their Indian Vedism too, the ancient Hindu philosophy, does have some parallels with quantum physics, such as the idea of the interconnectedness of all things and the non-dualistic nature of reality.

In Maxwell's Silver Hammer, McCartney again was referring to James Clerk Maxwell, a 19th-century physicist who was one of the founders of classical electromagnetism and made significant contributions to the understanding of light and colour, theories which can be seen as forerunners of Quantum Mechanics.

The numerous examples of interconnectedness in Beatle songs are explored throughout this Journey into Beatledom, including the Lennon gem Tomorrow Never Knows, otherwise known as The Void.

Liverpool too is a quantum City because, (seen in this light), it is neither one thing nor another. A City bound together by its own solidarity but separated from the rest of England because of its often recondite contrariness. It is in this sense, itself a quantum phenomenon.