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How much of the Beatles do they recognize?

> How much of the Beatles do they recognize?

Generally speaking, many of my students appear to know (vaguely) who the Beatles were, but that seems to be about it.

Conversely, I know teenagers that know every line from Seinfeld and every Beatles song. They are iconic and referenced often on TikTok.

Yep my 13 year old will often pop her head round the door wondering about how dad is listening to a song she's heard sampled on TikTok or some crazy video. Apparently, there's a bunch of The Smiths songs living multiple lives in the new world of the TikTok / short-attention span / ADHDNet.

On a script-related note, I spent a bunch of time back in the day reading through these:

http://www.lysator.liu.se/~kjell-e/tekla/red-dwarf/scripts.h...

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