The 5th Beatle.
So who was the “Fifth Beatle?” Over at the Guardian, novelist Jonathan Lethem ponders his own obsession with that very question as part of an extended essay on various aspects of pop culture.
On the side of conspiracy theories stood Sutcliffe, Best, Epstein, Voorman, Preston – this sequence of suspects who were also victims, seeming to indict the magic circle of four heroes of some wrongdoing or at least misrepresentation. But these “Fifth Beatles” also seemed to confirm the four in their status as iconic survivors.
I don’t agree with a lot of what he says, but the piece makes for a provoking and interesting read never the less. Check it out here.Â
