This Beatles Phd Schooled Kids Who Believed John Paul George And Ringo Were From Florida

Chicagoans is a first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford. This week’s Chicagoan is Jack Murphy, “Beatles PhD.”

       “The kids were not happy at first. They couldn’t believe we were going to spend a whole year on this one band that they’d either never heard of or only knew from a Target commercial or something. I’d ask, “Do you know what city or country the Beatles are from?,” and one kid said, “Orlando?”