What the critics wrote about the Beatles in 1964

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46. I have no idea what this person's talking about but I do know that

"...The autocratic but not by any means ungrammatical attitude to tonality (closer to, say, Peter Maxwell Davies's carols in O Magnum Mysterium than to Gershwin or Loewe or even Lionel Bart); the exhilarating and often quasi-instrumental vocal duetting, sometimes in scat or in falsetto, behind the melodic line; the melismas with altered vowels (“I saw her yesterday-ee-ay”) which have not quite become mannered, and the discreet, sometimes subtle, varieties of instrumentation - a suspicion of piano or organ, a few bars of mouth-organ obbligato, an excursion on the claves or maraccas; the translation of African Blues or American western idioms (in “Baby, it's you”, the Magyar 8/8 metre, too) into tough, sensitive Merseyside. "

is not a sentence.