Back in 1964, Beatles publicist Derek Taylor predicted that “the kids of AD 2000″ would still dig the Fab Four. “For the magic of the Beatles is, I suspect, timeless and ageless… It is adored by the world.” When Taylor made this claim — in the liner notes of “Beatles for Sale” — AD 2000 was more than 35 years away. The magic of the Beatles was just 2 years old, at least on record, and the idea of a rock band finding an audience behind the Iron Curtain, let alone in China, must have seemed like a stretch. How could so many people agree on one band?

Forty-five years later — almost a decade after the millennium — Taylor’s prediction still sounds bold. The magic of the Beatles isn’t legally available on the Internet, the medium that really does bring the world together. With hundreds of channels and thousands of Web sites, how can so many people agree on one band?

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