We Owe the Beatles to Luck
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Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Are some people destined forsuccess, or is the whole idea of destiny a myth, a comfortingtale that we tell ourselves? When artists or political leadersbecome household names, are they just lucky?
You might think that the Beatles, probably the mostsuccessful popular musicians in the last 50 years, were bound tosucceed. But an astonishing new book, "Tune In," by MarkLewisohn, suggests otherwise. Without explicitly saying so,Lewisohn’s narrative raises the possibility that without breaks,coincidences and a lot of luck, none of us would have ever heardof the Beatles.