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The Beatles created many sales records and charted more than fifty top 40 hit singles. They were the first British band to achieve major ongoing success in the United States, scoring twenty-seven #1 hits in the USA & UK alone, becoming the biggest musical act of the twentieth century. EMI estimated in 1985 that the band had sold over one billion records worldwide. Their ballad "Yesterday" sung by Paul McCartney (though always officially credited as a band recording written by Lennon-McCartney); is the most-covered song in the history of recorded music (about 2,500 versions of it exist).
Their earliest compositions were mainly rock&roll or R&B-rooted pop songs with the occasional ballad. But they grew increasingly eclectic as composers, arrangers and performers over the years. They composed songs and arranged them in a wide array of musical styles occasionally fusing genres. The constant factor in the vast majority of their songs was their focus on melody. Despite the wide array of musical styles utilised, Beatles recordings were readily identifiable because of their distinctive vocals. In addition to their core pop and rock styles, The Beatles' canon included songs flavoured with folk, country, rockabilly, blues, soul, doo-wop and many other musical genres. They were also pioneers of new musical directions such as psychedelia (Strawberry Fields Forever) and hard rock ("Helter Skelter," Revolution). Their use of chamber and baroque orchestrations (scored by producer George Martin) on recordings such as Yesterday, Eleanor Rigby, In My Life and For No One was another first in contemporary popular music.
They also pioneered many innovative production techniques and their epoch-making 1967 LP Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is often cited as one of the first concept albums. Their clothes, hairstyles and choice of musical instruments made them trendsetters throughout the decade; their growing social awareness, reflected in the development of their music, saw their influence extend far beyond the music scene into the social and cultural revolutions of the 1960s; and their enduring popularity with successive generations of both fans and musicians has cemented their reputation for being some of the most influential music artists of all time. The group disbanded in 1970 amid much strife. Thirty-five years later, in 2005, the American entertainment industry magazine Variety named them the most iconic entertainers of the 20th century.
The Beatles, George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr
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The Beatles were one of the most influential bands in the history of the universe. They truly helped to cultivate the music we hear today. They are one kick ass band. I love here comes the sun.
Some Tone-Deaf Kid: I hate the Beatles.
Me: YOU ARE A FAGGOT!!
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If you wanna definition of the Beatles, just get a dictionary. Look under "awesome".
Waste of a Life: The Beatles are gay fags, they suck.
Me: What do you like, stupid dick, Linkin Park?
Waste of a Life: Yeah, they rock.
Me: Stupid @!#$
Waste of a Life: What?
Me: pull out machine gun Nothing.
I proceed to spray Waste of a Life with bullets. His head implodes into a medley of red gore and flesh (no brain, unsurprisingly). I take his Linkin Park CDs and burn them with a match. I play "Sgt. Pepper" really loud, and watch the REAL "gay fag" music burn.
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One of the most pleasing sounds of the 20th century... contrary to those anti-cliche, burn-the-bandwagon sorts' beliefs, the beatles merely had a "cute", teenage-girl PHASE... they've got some pretty strange trippy stuff as well.
Who knows how the Beatles named themselves? I don't.
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The best band in existence. Those who hate them have horrible music taste or have never given them a chance. I, a young middle schooler, can tell the difference between famous because they're good- and famous because they're good-looking even though theit looks didn't hurt much ;-)
guy 1: By Rubber Soul by the Beatles! NOW!
guy 2: ew, the Beatles?
guy 1: what do you listen to?
guy 2: lots of stuff...
guy 1: like what?
guy 2: you know.........rap
guy 1: ew, rap
guy 2: better than the Beatles
guy 1: NO! How many Beatles songs have you listened to?
guy 2: I dunno, 3?
guy 3: ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, why guy 2? whyyy?
(actual conversation)
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The Beatles. The world greatest band. Revolutionised music as a whole. Genuinely nice blokes.
The beatles typical conversation:
Lennon: "Paul, Did you know your future wife is going to be a money whore?"
PAul: "no, but thanks for telling me"
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A band that for some reason has been regarded as "The greatest rock band of all time." This is a false belief that is especially brought out by moden-day faggot hipsters that claim The Beatles "still influence the music culture and many other fronts of art in contemporary time." These people are usually young adults with a pretentious, smug attitude about themselves. The Beatles were no more original than their peers, as they bought into the psychedelic movement like others. But their music had more of a mainstream grab to it, fitting them for the general audience. Thus enabling them to be embraced more than others of their time. Other bands of their time and after offered an equal amount of and even more talent, soul and influence than they. They are the most over-rated and over-exposed band of all time, and will be for centuries to come, as there is a paradox through contemporary times that presents them as the greatest to have been. Their albums have gone stale through the century and the songs within them have become a cliche for choir classes, marching bands, high school/college students and older who claim they are "individuals" or "artists," and every magazine or book, especially Rolling Stone, that have named them in at least three spots on every top ten list they created. They are no better than any other great bands before and after the 60's. See also, Shakespeare.
The Beatles are the head of all hipsters.
The Beatles were no more passionate, soul driven or influential than Nirvana.
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