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Malcolm Gladwell on the Beatles' Strip Club Years

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Best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell uses The Beatles as an example to question the existence of genuine musical prodigies.

He attributes the band's success to the little known period they spent playing as the house band for a strip club in Hamburg, Germany.
Malcolm Gladwell on Barack Obama the 'Outlier'

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Tipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell says Barack Obama fits his theory of the 'outlier' and discusses the uniqueness of his rise to become the 44th President of the United States of America.
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AlienIquirer

Posted: 01.25.09, 09:23 AM

True, the Beatles were well prepared but so are hundreds of bands that play in obscurity without ever being "successful". I think M. Gladwell should look into "syncronicity" that only Carl Jung took seriously. What happened with the Beatles is that everything fell in place as if it was meant to happen.