Beatles WTF du Jour

48 years ago today The Beatles recorded the haunting classic Eleanor Rigby:

With a double string quartet arrangement by George Martin, and striking lyrics about loneliness, the song continued the transformation of the group from a mainly pop-oriented act to a more experimental studio-based band. "Eleanor Rigby" broke sharply with popular music conventions both musically and lyrically. Richie Unterberger of Allmusic cites the band's "singing about the neglected concerns and fates of the elderly" on the song as "just one example of why the Beatles' appeal reached so far beyond the traditional rock audience."

 But the bigger point is this:

Please note the text from Wikipedia is imported without editing or authentication.

Wikipedia? What the fuck? You’re The Beatles – you can’t pay someone to write the shit yourselves? Entire libraries have been written on The Beatles – I know, I’ve read them all – and they’re notorious for being extremely controlling about their stuff. Yet on their own official website they just say “oh, fuck it, just Wiki that shit.”