Which is what happened on Friday night when the world gathered at the opening of the Olympic Games in London. Film maker Danny Boyle's production was as crazy as it was spectacular included the unlikely appearance of UK's Arctic Monkeys in the middle of it all with a gutsy performance raising the spectre of John Lennon with a convincing work out of his Abbey Road album classic "Come Together".
The band's lead singer and guitarist Alex Turner nicely judged the moment and turned out in leather jacket, jeans and DA haircut as if the clock had stood still in rock and roll circa 1960 and ripped through their own "You Look Good On The Dance Floor" followed by a convincing and close cover of "Come Together" that Lennon would surely have approved.
Later comments from global twitter commentators like "Who the fuck are the Arctic Monkeys?" only went to prove it was well worth while having them turn up.
So "stick it in your ear" to the clueless, this is just the sort of thing that happens in Danny Boyle's vision of the UK and more than likely quite a few others, us included.
And as there's copyright restrictions on most 'Anything Olympic' which includes their performance here's the original and a clever bit of virtual Beatles live.
