Was Theodor Adorno “The Fifth Beatle”?
How a conspiracy theory about the Frankfurt School made its way around the world
His latest theory asserts the Beatles could not have written their own songs, because they “were semi-literate in music” and “barely knew how to play the guitar.” Instead it was Adorno, a composer trained by Alban Berg and skilled in twelve-tone technique, who masterminded the Lennon-McCartney songbook.
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