Abbey Road
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 by Mark | Posted in Celebrity Branding, Entrepreneur, Unconventional Thinking | CommentsIt is simply amazing how some things endure.
I have not seen my first love for a lifetime, but that moment of transition from every girl I ever knew to the first one I loved, well it has proven to be indelible. In some looking-back-through-the-fog way, it has endured.
Indelible is a word we don’t use much anymore. But we should. In business and in life in general, it has a power and a permanence that presides over the buzz words and concepts of the moment that roll in and out like the waves at Coney Island. (Which, if you have ever been there, you know is indelible.)
I can’t recall what I did July 20 of this past summer. Or August 20. Or even a week ago.
But I do remember when I first heard Abbey Road. Not that it was the best the Beatles ever created, but I recall we all knew it was the end. The end of a brief era of a band of middle class mutts who would actually rise above the British caste system and would wind up having knights among them.
It was the end of a collaboration but hardly the end of a product set, an artistic achievement, that would prove to be indelible. “Something in the way it moves us” is timeless.
As I listen to Abbey Road now, it reminds me of the fact that we can go through life whistling through checklists of “to dos,” or hopefully, seeking a way to achieve something that endures way beyond the momentary satisfaction of — what a miserable 21st century term –”getting it off our plate.”
Abbey Road begs a question that is not always comfortable to contemplate: do we live just to die? Or do we live to create ideas/concepts/products that survive us? That change the order of things?
Mozart, Van Gogh and Einstein are presumed to be dead. Are they?
Or are they indelible?
Mark Stevens
CEO
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