Why the Beatles beat Om Kolthoum for me | Amira Nowaira

The Fab Four provided a much-needed release from the traditional music of the older generation in 1960s EgyptSpeaking about the Beatles and Om Kolthoum in the same breath may seem like an unholy union or the ravings of a cross-cultural lunatic, for what could the elderly Egyptian singer possibly have in common with the British foursome who, in the early 60s, were barely past their teens?Little, except perhaps for their meteoric rise from modest origins to the height of superstardom, and for the ...

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