And fifty years back from Wand to something else that sounded utterly groundbreaking though to more ears than Wand at the time of its release. The sixtieth episode of the Mad Men series and one of the very best of all. Named Lady Lazarus after the wonderful Sylvia Plath poem. Pete starts an affair with a troubled neighbour after starting the episode reading Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 on the commuter train into work while talking to the woman's loathsome unfaithful husband (he is yet to meet her the affair begins later the same day).
Much talk of beat bands in the episode. The Zombies, Herman's Hermits and Chad and Jeremy are mentioned. None of it is Don's cup of tea. 'When did music become so important/' he complains to Megan. 'I have no idea of what's going on out there.' The Beatles were important and she gives him one evening before going out,the newly released Revolver and tells him to start with this one. He listens to it after she leaves. It's not for him. He's basically a product of the fifties and early sixties. He takes it off midway through.
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