For the oldsters among us, this is a pivotal date in the history of popular music. It was the date that The Beatles first appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show." It's impossible to explain how profoundly they changed popular culture in general and popular music specifically. From that point forward, rock and roll was not just the music we listened to, it was the music we lived. I saw The Beatles only two years later at Crosley Field as they neared the end of an increasingly unsatisfying performance career. In just a couple of years, they evolved from being a pop phenomenon to be important, influential musicians who could only express themselves in the studio. They were amazing.
Feb. 9, 1964
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ELVIS changed the landscape more than the Beatles
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ELVIS changed the landscape more than the Beatles
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May 4, 1964 was much more pivotal — for humanity in general, that is.
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Elvis was great vocalist and an amazing entertainer. The Beatles were great songwriters and musicians. Without the songs, there is nothing. Edge goes to The Beatles in my book.
I remember that Ed show. Met a woman on a business trip to Mexico City in early 2000s who was at that ESS appearance (OK, she claimed to be & seemed serious & had no reason to say otherwise. So I believed her. And she was about right age to be teenager/early 20s then.). She was visiting a friend in NYC & the friend had tickets. Clearly was well to do.
Recall having to clean the house on Sat mornings, listening to Top 40, & singing along to Beatles who dominated top 10.
Beatles were bigger than Elvis to me as he rose to fame a bit before my time. Think I like Brian Wilson better though. He & Beatles were in friendly competition. I didn't know it, just a lot of great music.
Recall having to clean the house on Sat mornings, listening to Top 40, & singing along to Beatles who dominated top 10.
Beatles were bigger than Elvis to me as he rose to fame a bit before my time. Think I like Brian Wilson better though. He & Beatles were in friendly competition. I didn't know it, just a lot of great music.
IMO, the Beatles were best during the early years. Like lots of other groups, it's when they stopped singing, started making trying to make statements in their music and began trying to influence society that they declined. No way "I am the walrus..koo, koo, ka, chu" is as enjoyable to listen to as their early hits.
They and a few others did change the sound of pop music. There's a very distinct difference in the bee-bop sound of the fifties and sixties pop.
I believe the exact opposite.
GWAR could kick the **** out of the Beatles. Literally beat their faces in with an iron pipe.
They did two shows and made $3,500 per show. A cheap seat to a Paul McCartney concert probably goes for more than that today.
What if instead of being from Liverpool, The Beatles had been Amish and from Nappanee?
Sounds like you want to cup his balls based on your f'n Foreigner post.
Pretty awesome post, OP. Seeing The Beatles live in '66 must have been an amazing experience.
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Before the Beatles it was pretty rare for artists to write their own songs. The Beatles came along and not only showed people artists can write but it was often a superior product than using a studio catalog. Still no one has done it better IMO.
It was an amazing experience, and it was an awful concert. It was held at lunchtime on a Sunday because the Saturday night concert was rained out. The sound system was awful -- a line of little PA speaker columns along the first and third base lines, and this was the days before stage monitors. So the band had no chance of hearing their own voices.
I remember that. Was watching through the snow on the TV, our antenna on the hill didn't pick up that channel to well.
There is and was only One King.
Chuck Berry, Elvis, Buddy Holly Jerry Lee Lewis and record producer Sam Phillips of Sun Records ( along with several others) were the pioneers of Rock and Roll. Sam Philliips was the first to blend "race music" as it was called, gospel and country to form a new genre which would become the standard of the music world.
The Beatles were a great, fantasic group but they were part of a genre that was already establish. Elvis, Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis invented one.
Chuck Berry, Elvis, Buddy Holly Jerry Lee Lewis and record producer Sam Phillips of Sun Records ( along with several others) were the pioneers of Rock and Roll. Sam Philliips was the first to blend "race music" as it was called, gospel and country to form a new genre which would become the standard of the music world.
The Beatles were a great, fantasic group but they were part of a genre that was already establish. Elvis, Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis invented one.
It's no so much about comparing Elvis and the Beatles in any sort of way to determine who was better or more talented. If that is the question, I'm sure you could find others that should be included. The reason those 2 acts get so much attention is because of the influence they had, the social change the brought about. As to which was "better" in some sense? Hard to say. Have always thought one's genius was visceral, the other cerebral......