Somebody once said that the songs you hear in high school stay with you forever. The Fab Four were producing their best music when I was plowing through my four years at St. Xavier, and the tunes have stuck. The recent release of the Anthology outtakes got my enthusiasm level back up, as it did for many greying boomers.
Do the Beatle arrangements, with their attention to detail and avoidance of pop cliche, form rock and roll's closest approximation to a classical music? Hell if I know, but the songs are still a lot of fun. Even the noisy quarrels that split the band have mellowed into quaint memories, though time can't soften John's murder.
For a band that broke up thirty years ago, the Beatles receive more than their share of Web sites. A good starting-point is the Time Capsule, with loads of links to other Web locales.
Unlike much romantic reminiscing, recollections of the Beatles don't evoke a more "innocent" time. The late sixties now seem like a horrendously guilty era, stained by a lousy war, race riots, political upheaval and other lovelies. Beatle tunes couldn't make the world perfect, but they added a bit of grace to a stretch of history which needed all the help it could get.
If you want to continue on the long and winding road through this Web heap, many other pages await.