May 24
Actually, recent scholarship has cast doubt upon this. While it was once accepted that “the Beatles” were a single, coherent band, nowadays most historians agree they were more likely a loosely defined collection of musicians and writers with many internal disagreements between them. It was only in a much later period that the myth of a unified “Beatles” (perhaps alluding to the Egyptian solar deity Khepri, in reference to the hymn “Here Comes the Sun”) was invented through the syncretic efforts of writers associated with the Pauline, Johannine, and Georgian schools of thought. Ringo was later included in this cast as a familiar comedic figure, common in the folklore of the era.
