Beatles Wine: Please Please No
Beatles artist Shannon has taken the Beatles butcher cover and given it some vintage through the design of a new set of wine bottles. If the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame had a category of worst band ideas ever, this would surely have to land near or at the top. This is not the “birthday greetings, bottle of wine when I’m 64” feeling I was imagining for myself down the road.
Just consider the very pleasant experience that wine is. The great buzz, wonderful taste shared nicely with friends and then sit back for a moment and contemplate the imagery of butchered babies and over the top John Lennon cynicism. Come on, with so many rich songs in their catalog to choose from let’s pick the one that most resembles hell.
It’s clear at the time why the Beatles chose to savage their public image. That’s all been pretty well documented but I absolutely have to meet the people that sat around drinking with each other and thought “yeah, that’s what I think about with a nice wine buzz, some bloody babies.”
On a more pleasurable note, the lovely man George Harrison would have been 67 this week. Cheers George.
