Well... in my opinion they helped to create what we see as the modern pop song
They also influenced pop culture in a way that is still relevant today, and any band that has at least three albums in most top 10 albums of all time polls got to get elevated a bit.
I think that to call the Beatles just a band is the same as saying that Bill Gates is just a computer programmer. I has to do with not only what they produced, but that it was made at the time when it was completely in sync with the attitudes and feelings of their target audience - for better or worse in Gates' case.
I wrote part of my dissertation on the Beatles, but I can't actually remember any facts, so this is just my opinion.
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boyo81 was laying down his ordinance on, Thu 29 Jan 2009, 19:36,
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