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Elvis Was the greatest Rock & roll artist EVER, his music is played all over the world every day. The Beatles, what Beatles Mmm, :P ;D.
Lincs, why so serious? To some people he was the greatest rock n roll artist ever - what's the problem?Personally, I've never understood the appeal of the Beatles, I've never liked their music or their vocals but if to others they are musical gods then sobeit.It's not for anybody else to decide who a musical great should be!
Boy Gorge! That someone we can all get behind... oh er misses...The Beatles - I suppose they are OK if you were a screaming teenage girl in the 60s but all this hyperbole about them being the entire foundation of modern music strikes me as mere fanboyism..
At school my friend liked Elvis and I liked Cliff Richard.There was always a divide.I remember mornings before we went into class dancing to her singing an Elvis song and our partners were the poles at the end of the coat racks. i must admit I did like his early stuff.The small faces and the stones and the yardbirds were my favourites and then later Boy George and George Michael. I will always be a Matt Monro fan .Today I am a huge Joe McElderry fan and so is Tony. ;D
Just because The Beatles came before it doesn't follow that there is any causal relationship between them and what came next. Personally I think that the Beatles were highly over rated and just happened to be in the right place at the right time - Their influence is not as great as some people seem to think
Effectively what you seem to saying is that every style of modern music is influenced by the past, which is really saying nothing. The Beatles were influenced by what came before them so you may as well say that all modern music is descended from Blues or R&B or what ever it was that came before that.
Also the teenager and youth culture came about a decade before the Beatles - America in the 50s witnessed the rise of teenage culture and changing behaviour. The Beatles themselves were a product of this change not an instigator of it.
I dint know if 'Sergeant Peppers' is as influential as you say but it is goddam awful!! ;)
Edit - Mr Lydon may have changed his mind since 2007 Sex Pistol frontman John “Johnny Rotten" Lydon has revealed that he is not a fan of the Beatles- insisting that they didn"t put their heart in what they did. While the whole world appreciated the quality of 'Beatles" in their glory days, Lydon believes that the 1960"s band"s work was a cultivated operation, and therefore manufactured.“[The Beatles] started out as a rock "n" roll imitation and a covers band [a reference to their early days when they covered the hits of the day]," the Daily Express quoted him, as telling on an interview. “They spent a few years learning their craft before they decided they were original geniuses," he said. “There was no great heart in anything they did. It was all a cultivated operation, and therefore manufactured," he added.
@incsyokel2 I always knew that people who lived through the 60s had rose tinted spectacles but I hadn't realised how rosey they were!