Benzene with a backbeat?

Out-of-towners are always amused that there's actually a town in Brazoria County named Liverpool.

Liverpool, England, you may have read somewhere, is famous for being the hometown of The Beatles, a musical group that rose to prominence in the 1960s and helped popularize the "long hair" look that became popular among young males that can still be seen today among approximately 12 percent of the Western Hemisphere's male population.

Liverpool, Texas, a teeny town here in Brazoria County, is famous for nothing. Long-haired males occassionally are spotted out in public, but the look is not encouraged, and the local chemical plant, Equistar Chemicals Chocolate Bayou Complex, last week released close to 500 pounds of benzene cause the power went out.

Liverpool, Texas, will not become "famous" for this, or anything else unless a spate of serial killings break out, cause benzene gets "released" every so often all up and down the Petrochemical Underarm of Texas.

Even so, if there's nothing else to hang your hat on in a teeny Texas town, at this exact, particular moment in time, Liverpool, Texas very likely had the biggest benzene release occurring in the world. Or at least in the USofA. Or maybe just Texas. Whatever the case, no one will remember it for very long. Maybe if someone wrote a song about it they'd remember. But we're pretty sure it wouldn't get any radio play.

But what if The Beatles wrote and recorded the benzene song? With a driving backbeat and a catchy chorus? Oh, yeah, that's not gonna happen. The band broke up, we heard. And half of them are dead, too.
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