| No
other band has had quite the same impact as the four lads from
Liverpool. Over the course of eight years and more than a dozen
albums, the Beatles changed popular music and culture forever,
spearheading the 1960s British Invasion and shaping
rock &
roll along the way. Along with their amazing musical output and
unprecedented worldwide celebrity, John, Paul, George, and Ringo
were responsible for many pop music revolutions, major and
minor--writing their own material, pushing the limits of the
studio, making films of their music, printing song lyrics on
albums--that today are taken for granted. Although the Beatles
disbanded in 1970, their artistic legacy is permanently ingrained
in the entire world's musical vocabulary. |
