When I said I wasn't ashamed, I meant the showtunes, not the Beatles. People give showtunes a bad rap but generally know more of them than they realize. But whatever- not ashamed of the Beatles, either.

Shiloh- I missed the PBS special, but I bet it was great. I have actually been to Abbey Road, although I didn't get to see the inside of the studio. It's kind of a funny place to visit and be touristy- you see the crosswalk where the cover shot from the Abbey Road album was taken (you know, the classic picture with the four Beatles going across the street in a row, lots of conspiracy theories involve that picture, highly amusing) and it's right in front of the Abbey Road recording studio. The street looks the same as it did in the 60s (except for the old fashioned cars parked along it) but there are people with tables camped out at the corner selling t-shirts and a constant trickle of people dawdling across the crosswalk and trying to take each other's picture in the middle of the street, risking life and limb as traffic goes whizzing by at high speeds. I wasn't there very long (on a Friday afternoon) but there must have been 8 people doing the same thing I was in the span of about 15-20 minutes. So I can imagine the demand for tickets to get inside for an actual Paul McCartney concert there! Boggles the mind.