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Anyone who thinks that the Beatles are "lame" needs to listen to the White Album again. Not all of what they did sounded like boy-and-girl-yeah-yeah-yeah "She Loves You". The Beatles were extremely revolutionary for their time period, and THAT is why they are still everywhere, forty-some years after their last album.
They started out like any other boy band, then they reinvented their sound with exotic instruments [for instance, using the sitar], and then reinvented it again a couple of years later by going electric. They broke off from the recording label they were under, and created launched their own -- Apple Records. That was absolutely UNHEARD of at that time. They started out in a period in history when recording artists were merely tools under the thumb of their contract holders -- but they wrote their own songs, took charge of their own style, of their own sound, etc. They didn't go along with what was proven and copy someone else's success. Rather, they became the reference point for the majority of bands to come later in history.
By today's standards, it might not sound that impressive, but they really and honestly DID revolutionize the music industry. The result of what they did is overwhelming. Everything you like about music now owes a HUGE "Thank you!!" to The Beatles.
Even if you are not a fan of *ANY* of their styles [and again, if you are judging their sound based on their early pop years, than your judgement is made in ignorance -- go listen to their later albums before forming an opinion. It's not that hard, people], you at the very least should respect the enormous impact they had on music.
You would appreciate it more if you lived back in the sixties.
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