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Originally posted by Epona:
They may not have been the most innovative group of the time, either musically or lyrically, .
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Arrgh!
"I don't really want to stop the show
But I thought you'd all like to know"
Do you take the hint young whippersnapper!!! The first ever concept album. The use of the sitar, huge numbers of unusual instruments, inclusion of classical music, psychedelia, multi tracking! The first ever album to have the words on the sleeve.
"The impact of the Beatles - not only on rock & roll but on Western culture - is simply incalculable. As musicians, they proved that rock & roll could embrace a limitless variety of harmonies, structures and sounds; virtually every rock experiment has some precedent on Beatle records."
"Although many of their sales and attendance records have since been surpassed, no group has so radically transformed the sound and meaning of rock & roll."
- Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock and Roll
I'm going to have my afternoon nap now!
