A long and winding road
Before this semester, Boston College senior Ellie Badger鈥檚 knowledge of The Beatles had come largely through a rhythm-action video game (鈥淭he Beatles: Rock Band鈥�) her grandparents gave her for Christmas during her childhood.
Another senior, Mack Kepner, had a vague idea of who the band was when he was a kid, but his primary Beatles exposure was via his father鈥檚 renditions of 鈥淵ellow Submarine鈥� to Kepner and his sisters.
鈥淚 thought of them as making a lot of popular wacky songs,鈥� said Kepner, a psychology major with a minor in economics from Wilton, Ct., 鈥渁nd because of that, I never really understood the hype about them.鈥�
But now鈥攖o paraphrase a familiar lyric鈥攖heir lives have changed in, oh, so many ways.
Badger and Kepner are among the students this semester who took the course The Beatles: From Yesterday to Tomorrow Never Knows, taught by Jason McCool, a part-time faculty member in the Music Department. Far from being a