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Those four young lads from Liverpool changed everything. And not just the music. I mean, everything. It’s hard to ignore Beatles’ impact on music, of course. It’s even harder to imagine that a band who wrote “She Loves You” also wrote “A Day In The Life”, who went from “Ticket to Ride” to “Tomorrow Never Knows” (Listening to it in 2017 is still like listening to something from the future.) within a year, and in the process inventing and reinventing many musical tropes that we take for granted nowadays. The Beatles practically invented the concept of a modern “band” with album catalogues, members’ pitiful drama and all. They borrowed many things and pioneered even more things. They were the first band to use a song fade in (Eight Days a Week). Popularized the concept album, tape loops, lyrics on sleeves, quitting touring, experimenting, music videos, psychedelia, philosophical and pretentious lyrics, covering numerous amount of genres from heavy metal to blues to folks to avant-garde to psychedelics to ballad to musical hall (Just listen to The White Album and tell me that it isn’t the messiest album of all time of any genre), artistic album covers, satantic album covers, doing drugs, and other crazy things a band usually does to imitate The Beatles. That's reason 60 Years Of The Beatles Signature T-Shirt, Hoodie, Sweatshirt are so hot. True musicians know that The Beatles were something else and no one else could be compared to them, except for maybe Mozart. He was also a smart bastard, wasn’t he?
Anytime you think that a Beatle song is “dull” or uninspiring and a song in the same genre of a different band is “better”, just remember that The Beatles did it first. They were so influential that only a failed musician would hate on them for being too fucking good. I mean, holy shit. And they did all of that in just seven years. Find a band today that could release thirteen albums within the span of seven years, that fifty-something years later would all go on to become classics. Fucking impossible. Alongside with Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix and other rock bands of the 1960s, The Beatles dropped the “’n roll” in rock ’n roll, and what was left is rock music as we know today.
Admittedly, The Beatles started out as a cover band. They often played at bars around Hamburg and would be munching fried chicken whenever they had a chance. But then they took action. The world was turned upside down when The Beatles came to America in 1964. There was nothing else quite like it, not even Beatles’ influences like Buddy Holly or Chuck Berry or Elvis Presley, and certainly not anyone from this century that I know yet. They represented the British Invasion. They really WERE popular than Jesus. Everybody was out buying Beatles’ record. Every young girl wanted to be with a Beatle. Every young boy wanted to become a Beatle. Musicians respected the hell out of them. Once, the top five best-selling songs were all The Beatles’. Even in their boyband period, their music was top notch. Just ask any music theorist and they will tell you that Beatles’ harmonies were just out there (as a fellow Redditor pointed out here taking the infamously "simplistic" song "I Want To Hold Your Hand" as an example). With Beatlemania alone, the Beatles were arguably the first boy band ever, and that legacy alone could make them the greatest band of all time.
But that wasn’t enough. Something happened. They started experimenting with Rubber Soul in 1965, as the world had gone tired of the clean-cut Beatles and were ready to see something new. So, they started growing their hair. An absolutely insane decision at the time. Boys were supposed to be boys and girls were supposed to be girls. There was no in-between. The Beatles grew their hair, anyway, and thus the style of men having long hair in modern times was born. Musicians started taking notes. They were preparing for a change, only that they were too in the dark to be the leader, and left it to the true innovators like The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Bob Dylan, Frank Zappa, and The Who. The world was also changing, for better and worse, with the Vietnam war going on and echoes that the extremely bigoted 1950s had left. They were tired…oh so, very tired. They started smoking weed and taking LSD. They released Revolver and stopped touring. Revolver was an answer to Beach Boys’ masterpiece Pet Sounds, which was influenced by Rubber Soul. Revolver was rebellious, ambitious and nothing short of influential. It was different. But more importantly, Revolver was a blueprint for their holy grail of their whole career and perhaps of music culture, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. It was then when they broke the mold said, “fuck it” and became something else completely. No more sugar-coated poppy bullshit. An album with no singles. An album that was an album, rather than a collection of songs. An album with a cover so dense and so colorful, that it was an art all by itself. An album that represented 1967’s Summer of Love, the unification and collective consciousness young people had at the time, hippie culture that soon would die out, the hope for a better and peaceful future, the skeptics for the shitty and conservative past, the satirical culture adapted by comedians for years to come. Suddenly, every young person started dressing like they were from a comic book when Sgt. Pepper’s came out. Every young person was out smoking pot and dropping acid. Every young person was trying to be a peace’s advocate, and against the Vietnam war. "The closest Western Civilization has come to unity since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 was the week the 'Sgt. Pepper' album was released. In every city in Europe and America the radio stations played it, and everyone listened. For a brief while the irreparable fragmented consciousness of the West was unified, at least in the minds of the young.” (Langdon Winner of The Rolling Stone) When The Beatles broke up in 1970, it wasn’t just any band break-up. It was the end of an era that changed the world completely.
John had his thing where he found himself in his perfect situation with Yoko. All they wanted to do was sit and stare at each other, and spend their time alone, and then John would have to go to a rehearsal or recording with the band. These guys were shoulder to shoulder for 10+ years, and they were all in their own way moving on.
Brian Epstein was their original manager. He love 60 Years Of The Beatles Shirt. He passed away in 1967, leaving them with a horrible contract for their music. Paul pretty much took over and started calling the shots, so that could have gotten tiring for the others. Sgt. Pepper and Magical Mystery Tour were both Paul's ideas. By the time they were recording The White Album(1968), they were barely talking to each other. Many songs on that album were recorded individually with George Martin. Let It Be was also driven by Paul. He had a cool idea to have a doc crew record them while they made their brand new album. It would be new material, and at the end of the doc they'd perform their new tunes in a live concert. The live concert didn't work out because they couldn't agree where to perform, so they went up to the roof and played their famous Get Back concert. It was basically a doc on how a band breaks up. There's footage of Paul and George politely arguing in front of the crew. At one point George quit the band(Ringo tried to quit during the White Album). John unfortunately was hooked on heroin so he was kind of checked out. Yoko is there the whole time. There's even footage of her trying to jam with them. And the recording of the album ended up being a mess- so much so it ended up being the last album released. Abbey Road was kind of like their goodbye album. I think they said they knew it was going to be their last even though it didn't feel that way. But George Martin(their incredible producer) stated they pretty much got along during that one. The coolest thing about those guys was even if they had little squabbles, when they were playing, everything else went away. I think Ringo said that.
By the time Abbey Road was finished, their new contract came up stipulating how their next album would have be. Usually Paul and John wrote the majority of the music, with George having a song or two. But the new contract said George had to have a bunch of songs on there, and Ringo would have his own songs on there, it would have been like pulling teeth- the band was just--over. They were all moving into their own material- and we now have legendary music for it. John was already done with the band, he was doing his concerts with Yoko. George I believe worked on his album and went on tour as a guitarist with someone(Bonnie and Delaney?), and Paul publicly announced he was leaving the band. In the Anthology, this seemed to piss off John because he said he left the band first but Paul got the publicity for ending it all. It turned into petty finger pointing for a few years, but it seemed like they made up with each other. There's some gobblygook recording of Paul and John jamming together in the mid 70's. You can find it on YouTube. Also Paul and John came very close to running over to SNL to play live, but they never went. When Ringo released his solo album, I think the whole band helped him with individual songs. Unfortunately they never played live together again, nor recorded another Beatles Album(with the exception of the Anthology songs). But the music they created should be enough, there's tons and tons of it. Sorry for the rant, I used to be obsessed. :)
