Date: 14.04
Written by:USA Today
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Strawberry fjords forever
Oystein Greni, 25, was born five years after The Beatles broke up. Would a hip Gen-Xer applaud the return of a band his parents revered? This Norwegian would.
He and his pop-blues trio Bigbang, huge in Norway but unsigned here, recognized the significance of playing a gig last year at Liverpool's Cavern Club, the Fab Four's springboard.
He's convinced that a long-term Beatles would have continued concocting classic ballads and uptempo tunes untainted by fads or formulas. Greni says, "In many ways, they were a band with no certain 'style,' and I can't imagine them saying, 'We should make an album that sounds like this or that.' If they hadn't broken up, would the magic still be there? I think so. All the songwriters have continued making decent stuff and occasional hits. Paul and John made some brilliant ones: Jealous Guy, Jet, Live and Let Die. A lot of it has to do with how wonderful their voices sound together, a kind of magic you never get with trained Monkees."
Greni continues to discover in Beatles music the seeds of the contemporary sounds he was weaned on.
"I don't know if I totally agree with this now, but a few years ago this popped into my head: All Bjork and the Massive Attack genre of music has ever done production-wise is captured in the Revolver song Tomorrow Never Knows."
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