The Beatles are widely regarded as the greatest and most famous music band of all times. None of the Beatles’ contemporaries had as much effect on society as they did. Their popularity was so enormous, and their musical footprint was so significant, that is seems hardly possible that a Beatles-like phenomenon can happen again.
Their music was unique at the time. In their early days, they mixed rock and roll with the skiffle music, but over time, their initially heavily guitar-based sound got more complex and psychedelic. There are hardly two albums that sound the same. In fact, everyone can find something for themselves in the Beatles’ discography.
In our homeland, Russia, then the USSR, the Fab Four managed to penetrate the Iron Curtain and were extremely popular.
The Beatles were first officially mentioned in the Soviet press in 1964, after Boris Gurnov, the London correspondent for the youth newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, published an article about John Lennon and the Beatles, describing them as evidence of decaying bourgeois art.
Contrary to popular belief, the Beatles were not banned in the USSR, but the Soviet censorship was afraid of the 'noxious influence' of the long-haired boys and 'those Western trends’. There were plenty of disparaging voices and reviews in the Soviet press. Even the venerable Soviet composer Nikita Bogoslovsky wrote: “I am ready to bet you that 18 months from now, there will be a new group with even more idiotic haircuts and even weirder voices, and all the fuss will die down". These critical statements and reviews came intermittently with articles, in which the Beatles were pictured sympathetically as victims of the capitalist system, “talented boys from a working-class block who made millions but got no happiness.”
Meanwhile, Soviet Beatles fans collected facts about the group, crumb by crumb. They got their information from Western newspapers and magazines that came their way from time to time, and from Russian-speaking Western radio stations, universally referred to as the 'enemy voices'.
By the 1980s, the state music company Melodia was producing recordings by the group. Some songs were translated ridiculously: examples include “The Meeting” (Come together), “The Garden” (Octopus’s Garden), and “My Helpful Friend” (With a Little Help From My Friends).
Real vinyl discs were only available on the black market where they came via diplomatic and touristic channels, and they changed hands for very large sums of money (a new Beatles album could cost 50-60-70 Rubles, an approximately one-third of an engineer’s monthly salary). However, there was also a thriving trade in bootleg discs, produced in the USSR and Eastern Europe.
Enterprising retailers sought more affordable alternatives to vinyl. What they discovered was that music could be etched onto X-rays. Discarded X-ray films were collected from Soviet hospitals, and the music was pressed onto them using a modified record player. The results looked like flexi-discs with ghostly images of rib cages and broken legs imprinted on the plastic. Fans called them "music on the bones".
When John Lennon was shot by a fanatic in December 1980, his murder shocked Soviet fans no less than it did those who learned of his death from the global media. On that tragic day, several hundred students held a spontaneous memorial service in front of Moscow University.
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You need to find eight (or less if you guess soon) objects mentioned in the Beatles’ songs (physical objects or their names/ images appearing in notices all around Sunny Beach) and try to find the cache. The cache is hidden in the broken part of a tilted tree at h appr. 2 m.
The songs, in which the objects are mentioned (links to their lyrics are provided together with links to music, which you can record, if you like, and listen to while going around the cache stages), are as follows:
1. Lucy in The Sky With Diamonds lyrics YouTube
2. Something (Abbey Road version) lyrics YouTube
3. Penny Lane lyrics YouTube
4. Back in the U.S.S.R. lyrics YouTube
5. Eleanor Rigby lyrics YouTube
6. Octopus’s Garden lyrics YouTube
7. I Got a Woman lyrics YouTube
8. A Day in the Life lyrics YouTube
The objects (or their images/ names) are encoded with three numbers (for example, Object 1 [A,B,C]. You need to understand the A, B and C meaning and determine the values of A, B, C, D, ...... Z.
Object 1 [QQL] at N42o42.546/ E027o43.844
Object 2 [OMP] at N42o41.344/ E027o42.671
Object 3 [ORN] at N42o42.505/ E027o43.747
Object 4 [OQN] at N42o41.541/ E027o42.729
Object 5 [RMW] at N42o42.407/ E027o43.525
Object 6 [QRN] at N42o41.419/ E027o42.696
Object 7 [RQL] at N42o41.361/ E027o42.485
Object 8 [QQK] at N42o42.069/ E027o43.161
CACHE: N4204Q.RMN/ E02704R.KNQ