The Beatles

Rock & Roll Hall of Famer

Category: Performer

Inducted: 1988

Inducted by: Mick Jagger

Nominated: 1988

First Eligible: 1988 Ceremony

Inducted Members: George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr


Songwriters Hall of Fame: 1987

Induction Ceremony Songs:

SongPerformed By
I Saw Her Standing There  Mick Jagger, Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen, Ringo Starr, George Harrison Bob Dylan & The Rock Hall Jam Band

Inducted into Rock Hall Revisited in 1988 (ranked #1) .

R.S. Top 500 Albums (?)RankVersion
Abbey Road52020
Revolver112020
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band242020
The Beatles292020
Rubber Soul352020
Meet the Beatles!1972020
A Hard Day's Night2632020
Help!2662020
Let It Be3422020
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band12012
Revolver32012
Rubber Soul52012
The Beatles102012
Abbey Road142012
Please Please Me392012
Meet the Beatles!532012
A Hard Day's Night3072012
Help!3312012
Let It Be3922012

R.S. Top 500 Songs (?)RankVersion
Strawberry Fields Forever (1967)72021
I Want to Hold Your Hand (1963)152021
A Day in the Life (1967)242021
Yesterday (1965)722021
Hey Jude (1968)892021
In My Life (1965)982021
Something (1969)1102021
Let It Be (1970)1212021
She Loves You (1964)1352021
Eleanor Rigby (1966)2432021
Penny Lane (1967)2802021
Help! (1965)4472021

Essential Albums (?)WikipediaYouTube
Please Please Me (1963)
With The Beatles (1963)
A Hard Day's Night [UK] (1964)
Beatles For Sale (1964)
Meet The Beatles! (1964)
Help! [UK] (1965)
Rubber Soul [UK] (1965)
Revolver [UK] (1966)
Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
Magical Mystery Tour [US] (1967)
The Beatles (1968)
Abbey Road (1969)
Let It Be (1970)

Essential Songs (?)WikipediaYouTube
Love Me Do (1962)
All My Loving (1963)
I Saw Her Standing There (1963)
Please Please Me (1963)
From Me to You (1963)
Twist And Shout (1963)
I Want To Hold Your Hand (1963)
She Loves You (1963)
I Feel Fine (1964)
And I Love Her (1964)
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
Can't Buy Me Love (1964)
Eight Days A Week (1964)
Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) (1965)
Ticket To Ride (1965)
Yesterday (1965)
Day Tripper (1965)
In My Life (1965)
Help! (1965)
Drive My Car (1965)
We Can Work It Out (1965)
Nowhere Man (1965)
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away (1965)
Got To Get You Into My Life (1966)
Taxman (1966)
Paperback Writer (1966)
Rain (1966)
Eleanor Rigby (1966)
Tomorrow Never Knows (1966)
Yellow Submarine (1966)
I Am The Walrus (1967)
Hello, Goodbye (1967)
All You Need Is Love (1967)
Strawberry Fields Forever (1967)
Penny Lane (1967)
A Day In The Life (1967)
Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
The Fool on the Hill (1967)
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band / With A Little Help From My Friends (1967)
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (1967)
Lady Madonna (1968)
Ob La Di, Ob La Da (1968)
Glass Onion (1968)
Hey Jude (1968)
Back in the U.S.S.R. (1968)
While My Guitar Gently Weeps (1968)
Happiness Is a Warm Gun (1968)
Helter Skelter (1968)
Blackbird (1968)
Revolution (1968)
The End (1969)
Octopus's Garden (1969)
Come Together (1969)
Something (1969)
Get Back (1969)
Don't Let Me Down (1969)
Here Comes The Sun (1969)
Across the Universe (1970)
The Long and Winding Road (1970)
Let It Be (1970)
Now and Then (2023)

The Beatles @ Wikipedia



Comments

122 comments so far (post your own)


The Beatles are not the center of the music universe.

Look past The Beatles and you will see a whole new world of music.

Joe Meek, before The Beatles.

Moondog, before The Beatles.

Sun Ra, before The Beatles. Look at album cover for "Magic City". The Beatles "Revolver" has a similar look, had "Revolver" came out first, of course Sun Ra would be ripping off The Beatles.

Why not bring up Gene Vincent's look. You always hear how The Beatles fashion and hair were copied by everyone, they were not.

Musicians that think The Beatles invented everything should go on a musically journey of there own and not wear Beatle blinders.

I believe Elmore James had more of an influence on the late 60's rock/blues music than The Beatles ever had. Tell me Canned Heat was an offshoot of The Beatles.

Blind Faith’s Debut album had a remake of Buddy Holly’s “Well Alright” and they thought that song was good enough to be their opening song at their London concert. How many there didn’t know it was a Blind Faith Song?

Musicians before The Beatles still have a influence on music.

The people above that said Elvis did not have an influence after The Beatles should look at many front men of bands and tell me he did not influence them.

It is harder to look back at music than to have seen it in chorological order.

I am not knocking The Beatles music, just free your mind and soak it all in.

Posted by Bill on Sunday, 01/13/2013 @ 09:38am


So much about The Beatles has been written and their story is so mythic that it is very hard to summarize their career without the recurring clichés that have already been digested by millions of rock fans, but the impact they had on rock and roll can't be overstated.

It's very hard to convey the scope of the Beatles in just a few paragraphs. They synthesized all the good things about 50s rock and roll and made it into something orginal and much more exciting. They bulit the prototype for the rock group that wrote and performed their own songs. As songwriters, their craft and inventivness are second to none and were key to rock and roll's evolution from it's blues form to a more eclectic sound. As singers, all four of the band members added their own sounds to the songs that John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote. After they finished touring in 1966, The Beatles returned to the studio, they were pioneers of using advanced techniques and muti-layered arrangements.

To start off, they startled the eyes and energized all who heard and saw them. Their arrival ignited a musical revolution in the 60s that introduced a new viewpoint that parted from the world of the 50s. They introduced more innovations into rock than any other rock band in the 20th century, they were one of the few rock bands of any discipline that were the best at what they did and the most popular at what they did. They were imaginative and experimental who grabbed a hold of the international consciousness in 1964 with "I Want to Hold Your Hand", turning the music world on it's head, setting in motion the musical agenda for the rest of the decade.


After that, the group never let go for the next six years by staying ahead in terms of creativity but without losing the ability to communicate their sophisticated ideas to their audiences. The music of the Beatles with its' crisp harmonies, solid musicianship, energetic singing and lots of screaming triggered the energy of youth in America and the UK. They conferred self-identity upon a youthful culture based around rock and roll that showed itself in unique ways with not only music, but also in the bubbling counterculture.

Their supremacy as giants of rock has remained unchallenged to this day. As David Crosby said about them, "We were just in awe of them, they were so good. Every time they came out with a song like "Paperback Writer", I just want to quit because I coundn't do anything like that". For the past four decades, the Beates have touched every part of rock and roll, influencing
groups from The Bryds and Coldplay and singers from Billy Joel to Tom Petty.

Posted by Andrew on Saturday, 03/16/2013 @ 00:59am


Here are some of my favorite Beatles songs:

Across The Universe

Help

Ticket To Ride

I Saw Her Standing There

Penny Lane

Come Together

Norwegian Wood

I'm Only Sleeping

Posted by Andrew on Wednesday, 04/17/2013 @ 11:27am


and now because its 9am and ive lost control of my life, heres the beatles albums in order of quality as judged by FRL

1: Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
2: Rubber Soul
3: The Beatles
4: Revolver
5: Abbey Road
6: The Magical Mystery Tour
7: A Hard Day's Night
8: Help!
9: Let It Be
10: Please Please Me
11: With The Beatles
12: Beatles For Sale

Posted by GFW on Monday, 05/6/2013 @ 04:09am


"They were imaginative and experimental who grabbed a hold of the international consciousness in 1964 with "I Want to Hold Your Hand", turning the music world on it's head, setting in motion the musical agenda for the rest of the decade"

This quote is why I believe The Beatles are given way too much credit, it is simply not a true statement.

Posted by Paul on Sunday, 06/2/2013 @ 16:14pm


How in any way was their early stuff experimental?

Posted by GFW on Sunday, 06/2/2013 @ 17:30pm


Paul, what I said about The Beatles may be seen as an untrue statment, but they are the most important band in rock and roll. Simply put, many of the later rock bands would not have existed had it not been for The Beatles and many of the great singer-songwriters would never be around today had it not been for them.

Btw, why do you guys sometimes trash what I post on this site.

Posted by Andrew on Sunday, 06/2/2013 @ 18:50pm


Paul, what I said about The Beatles may seen as an untrue statement, but they are the most important band in rock and roll. Simply put, many of the later rock bands would not have existed had it not been for The Beatles and many of the great singer-songwriters would never be around today had it not been for them.

By the way, why do you guys sometimes trash what I post on this site?

Posted by Andrew on Sunday, 06/2/2013 @ 18:54pm


You're not the first to get trashed on here. That quote would probably get called out no matter who said it.

Posted by GFW on Monday, 06/3/2013 @ 06:29am


anyone who says that the beatles were not the most influential band of all time is completely false they did what no other band did change throughout their career something that most average people listneing to rock music today cannot grasp. that is what them great the fact is that they did not care about selling to the base they already and change. many important people have cited them has extremely influential Queen, Black Sabbath and the greatest rock musician since 1990 kurt cobain anyone who says that are not good listen to come together, hey jude, revoultion, helter skelter, something, and while my guitar gently weeps. and for what http://www.scaruffi.com said about them he is what is called hipster his greatest band of all time most people have never heard of but that is not my point the beatles had the same amount of influence if not more while still being the most successful band of all time writing all their songs and being a band that also transcends a genre.

Posted by Thomas on Tuesday, 08/27/2013 @ 10:14am


Thomas,
Please do a little research before you post.

Posted by Carl on Saturday, 08/31/2013 @ 14:22pm


It was 50 years ago today, that the Beatles taught the band to play.

Posted by Dameon on Friday, 02/7/2014 @ 12:26pm


Amazing that only one comment has come in on the Beatles over the course of this weekend. Even though they were inducted yrs. ago, I'd have thought someone else would've said something, being what this weekend is.

Posted by Cheesecrop on Sunday, 02/9/2014 @ 05:02am


I don't know if I'm going to watch the thing on CBS (or did it already air?). It might be cool, but I dunno. I'm leery of the Paul and Ringo reunion. I saw Ringo's performance at the Grammys and he is definitely aging. He looks almost fragile up on stage now. Still, I hope this event and this 50 year celebration thing reignites the push to get Ringo inducted as a solo artist while he's still alive (or just plain ever). I know I'm minority on that, especially in light of all the acts on here that are considered bigger snubs, but I just want to see it happen.

If I could've "fixed" (for want of a better word) any Beatles song, it would have been "The Ballad Of John And Yoko." It's already one of my favorite Beatles songs, with its bouncy bass, John's "You've GOT to be kidding me"! vocal delivery sounds like a guy who'd be laughing at the frustrations if they weren't happening to him, and guitar chords that provide kind of a musical sting, like a sad trumpet "Waa-waa-waa-waaahh"; however, I think it would have been even better with George and Ringo on it. George's strings would have added the extra texture to it (pun intended), but the drums are the real reason. You can tell just by listening to it that it was Paul's first effort. It's completely rudimentary drumming until the bridge, and except for the maracas, the percussion doesn't really feel organic to the song. The attempts at fills later on in the song are choppy. As a Beatle, Ringo drummed to fit the song, not to show off. What he would have done for that song one can only imagine, but you know for certain it would be a lot tighter and cleaner.

But yeah, I'm also celebrating this weekend by listening to their music.

Posted by Philip on Sunday, 02/9/2014 @ 12:22pm


Strangely enough, only one station in the Philly area has anything going on. This is WMGK. We have an oldies station, WOGL, and every Sunday they do the "70's on Sunday", for about 6 hours. I honestly thought they would break the pattern, given that this is the last time anybody will be able to do anything on the Beatles in such a manner. They've opted to remain faithful to their programming as usual.

Posted by Cheesecrop on Sunday, 02/9/2014 @ 17:31pm


THE BILLBOARD 200 ALBUMS CHART

STUDIO ALBUMS

THE BEATLES


01. 1963 - # 1 - Please Please Me
02. 1963 - # 1 - With The Beatles
03. 1964 - # 2 - Introducing... The Beatles
04. 1964 - # 1 - Meet The Beatles!
05. 1964 - # 1 - The Beatles' Second Album
06. 1964 - # 1 - A Hard Day's Night
07. 1964 - # 2 - Something New
08. 1964 - # 1 - Beatles For Sale
09. 1964 - # 1 - Beatles '65
10. 1965 - # 1 - Beatles VI
11. 1965 - # 1 - Help!
12. 1965 - # 1 - Rubber Soul
13. 1966 - # 1 - Yesterday And Today
14. 1966 - # 1 - Revolver
15. 1967 - # 1 - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
16. 1967 - # 1 - Magical Mystery Tour
17. 1968 - # 1 - The Beatles
18. 1969 - # 2 - Yellow Submarine
19. 1969 - # 1 - Abbey Road
20. 1970 - # 1 - Let It Be

Posted by Roy on Tuesday, 08/12/2014 @ 09:24am


THE BILLBOARD 200 ALBUMS CHART

LIVE ALBUMS

THE BEATLES


01. 1977 - # 111 - Live! At The Star-Club In Hamburg, Germany; 1962
02. 1977 - # 2 - The Beatles At The Hollywood Bowl
03. 1994 - # 3 - Live At The BBC
04. 2013 - # 7 - On Air - Live At The BBC Volume 2

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 08/16/2014 @ 21:26pm


THE BILLBOARD 200 ALBUMS CHART

COMPILATIONS

THE BEATLES


01. 1964 - # 7 - The Beatles' Story
02. 1965 - # 43 - The Early Beatles
03. 1970 - # 2 - Hey Jude
04. 1970 - # 117 - In The Beginning (Circa 1960)
05. 1973 - # 3 - 1962-1966
06. 1973 - # 1 - 1967-1970
07. 1976 - # 2 - Rock 'N' Roll Music
08. 1977 - # 24 - Love Songs
09. 1980 - # 21 - Rarities
10. 1988 - # 149 - Past Masters, Volume One
11. 1988 - # 121 - Past Masters, Volume Two
12. 1995 - # 1 - Anthology 1
13. 1996 - # 1 - Anthology 2
14. 1996 - # 1 - Anthology 3
15. 1999 - # 15 - Yellow Submarine Songtrack
16. 2000 - # 1 - 1
17. 2003 - # 5 - Let It Be... Naked
18. 2004 - # 35 - The Capitol Albums, Volume 1
19. 2006 - # 46 - The Capitol Albums, Volume 2
20. 2006 - # 4 - Love
21. 2009 - # 40 - The Beatles In Mono
22. 2009 - # 15 - The Beatles Stereo Box Set
23. 2012 - # 24 - Tomorrow Never Knows
24. 2013 - # 172 - The Beatles Bootleg Recordings 1963
25. 2014 - # 48 - The U.S. Albums

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 08/16/2014 @ 22:10pm


THE BILLBOARD 200 ALBUMS CHART
THE BEATLES STUDIO ALBUMS


01. 1963 - # 1 - Please Please Me
02. 1963 - # 1 - With The Beatles
03. 1964 - # 2 - Introducing... The Beatles
04. 1964 - # 1 - Meet The Beatles!
05. 1964 - # 1 - The Beatles' Second Album
06. 1964 - # 1 - A Hard Day's Night
07. 1964 - # 2 - Something New
08. 1964 - # 1 - Beatles For Sale
09. 1964 - # 1 - Beatles '65
10. 1965 - # 1 - Beatles VI
11. 1965 - # 1 - Help!
12. 1965 - # 1 - Rubber Soul
13. 1966 - # 1 - Yesterday And Today
14. 1966 - # 1 - Revolver
15. 1967 - # 1 - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
16. 1967 - # 1 - Magical Mystery Tour
17. 1968 - # 1 - The Beatles
18. 1969 - # 2 - Yellow Submarine
19. 1969 - # 1 - Abbey Road
20. 1970 - # 1 - Let It Be

THE BILLBOARD 200 ALBUMS CHART
THE BEATLES COMPILATION ALBUMS


01. 1964 - # 7 - The Beatles' Story
02. 1965 - # 43 - The Early Beatles
03. 1970 - # 2 - Hey Jude
04. 1970 - # 117 - In The Beginning (Circa 1960)
05. 1973 - # 3 - 1962-1966
06. 1973 - # 1 - 1967-1970
07. 1976 - # 2 - Rock 'N' Roll Music
08. 1977 - # 24 - Love Songs
09. 1980 - # 21 - Rarities
10. 1988 - # 149 - Past Masters, Volume One
11. 1988 - # 121 - Past Masters, Volume Two
12. 1995 - # 1 - Anthology 1
13. 1996 - # 1 - Anthology 2
14. 1996 - # 1 - Anthology 3
15. 1999 - # 15 - Yellow Submarine Songtrack
16. 2000 - # 1 - 1
17. 2003 - # 5 - Let It Be... Naked
18. 2004 - # 35 - The Capitol Albums, Volume 1
19. 2006 - # 46 - The Capitol Albums, Volume 2
20. 2006 - # 4 - Love
21. 2009 - # 40 - The Beatles In Mono
22. 2009 - # 15 - The Beatles Stereo Box Set
23. 2012 - # 24 - Tomorrow Never Knows
24. 2013 - # 172 - The Beatles Bootleg Recordings 1963
25. 2014 - # 48 - The U.S. Albums

THE BILLBOARD 200 ALBUMS CHART
THE BEATLES LIVE ALBUMS


01. 1977 - # 111 - Live! At The Star-Club In Hamburg, Germany; 1962
02. 1977 - # 2 - The Beatles At The Hollywood Bowl
03. 1994 - # 3 - Live At The BBC
04. 2013 - # 7 - On Air - Live At The BBC Volume 2

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 08/17/2014 @ 07:07am


THE BILLBOARD 100 SINGLES CHART
THE BEATLES


01. 1963 - # 116 – From Me To You
02. 1964 - # 1 – I Want To Hold Your Hand
03. 1964 - # 14 – I Saw Her Standing There
04. 1964 - # 1 – She Loves You
05. 1964 - # 3 – Please Please Me
06. 1964 - # 41 – From Me To You
07. 1964 - # 26 – My Bonnie (My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean)
08. 1964 - # 2 – Twist And Shout
09. 1964 - # 74 – There’s A Place
10. 1964 - # 68 – Roll Over Beethoven
11. 1964 - # 45 – All My Loving
12. 1964 - # 1 – Can’t Buy Me Love
13. 1964 - # 48 – You Can’t Do That
14. 1964 - # 2 – Do You Want To Know A Secret
15. 1964 - # 35 – Thank You Girl
16. 1964 - # 1 – Love Me Do
17. 1964 - # 10 – P.S. I Love You
18. 1964 - # 88 - Why
19. 1964 - # 92 – Four By The Beatles
20. 1964 - # 97 – Sie Liebt Dich (She Loves You)
21. 1964 - # 19 – Ain’t She Sweet
22. 1964 - # 1 – A Hard Day’s Night
23. 1964 - # 53 – I Should Have Known Better
24. 1964 - # 12 – And I Love Her
25. 1964 - # 53 – If I Fell
26. 1964 - # 53 – Ringo’s Theme (This Boy)
27. 1964 - # 25 – I’ll Cry Instead
28. 1964 - # 95 – I’m Happy Just To Dance With You
29. 1964 - # 17 – Matchbox
30. 1964 - # 25 – Slow Down
31. 1964 - # 1 – I Feel Fine
32. 1964 - # 4 – She’s A Woman
33. 1965 - # 1 – Eight Days A Week
34. 1965 - # 39 – I Don’t Want To Spoil The Party
35. 1965 - # 68 – 4 – By The Beatles
36. 1965 - # 1 – Ticket To Ride
37. 1965 - # 46 – Yes It Is
38. 1965 - # 1 – Help!
39. 1965 - # 1 - Yesterday
40. 1965 - # 47 – Act Naturally
41. 1965 - # 1 – We Can Work It Out
42. 1965 - # 5 – Day Tripper
43. 1965 - # 101 – I’m Down
44. 1965 - # 102 – Boys
45. 1966 - # 3 – Nowhere Man
46. 1966 - # 81 – What Goes On
47. 1966 - # 1 – Paperback Writer
48. 1966 - # 23 - Rain
49. 1966 - # 2 – Yellow Submarine
50. 1966 - # 11 – Eleanor Rigby
51. 1967 - # 1 – Penny Lane
52. 1967 - # 8 – Strawberry Fields Forever
53. 1967 - # 1 – All You Need Is Love
54. 1967 - # 34 – Baby You’re A Rich Man
55. 1967 - # 1 – Hello Goodbye
56. 1967 - # 56 – I Am The Walrus
57. 1968 - # 4 – Lady Madonna
58. 1968 - # 96 – The Inner Light
59. 1968 - # 1 – Hey Jude
60. 1968 - # 12 – Revolution
61. 1969 - # 1 – Get Back
62. 1969 - # 35 – Don’t Let Me Down
63. 1969 - # 8 – The Ballad Of John And Yoko
64. 1969 - # 1 – Come Together
65. 1969 - # 3 - Something
66. 1970 - # 1 – Let It Be
67. 1970 - # 1 – The Long And Winding Road
68. 1970 - # 1 – For You Blue
69. 1976 - # 7 – Got To Get You Into My Life
70. 1976 - # 49 – Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
71. 1978 - # 71 – With A Little Help From My Friends
72. 1982 - # 12 – The Beatles’ Movie Medley
73. 1986 - # 23 – Twist And Shout
74. 1995 - # 67 – Baby It’s You
75. 1995 - # 6 – Free As A Bird
76. 1996 - # 11 – Real Love

Posted by Roy on Wednesday, 08/20/2014 @ 16:55pm


THE BEATLES BILLBOARD BUBBLING UNDER HITS

01. 1963 - # 116 – From Me To You
02. 1965 - # 101 – I’m Down
03. 1965 - # 102 – Boys

Posted by Roy on Friday, 08/29/2014 @ 23:36pm


THE BEATLES : THE BILLBOARD 200 ALBUMS CHART

01. 1963 - # 1 - Please Please Me
02. 1963 - # 1 - With The Beatles
03. 1964 - # 2 - Introducing... The Beatles
04. 1964 - # 1 - Meet The Beatles!
05. 1964 - # 1 - The Beatles' Second Album
06. 1964 - # 1 - A Hard Day's Night
07. 1964 - # 2 - Something New
08. 1964 - # 7 - The Beatles' Story
09. 1964 - # 1 - Beatles For Sale
10. 1964 - # 1 - Beatles '65
11. 1965 - # 43 - The Early Beatles
12. 1965 - # 1 - Beatles VI
13. 1965 - # 1 - Help!
14. 1965 - # 1 - Rubber Soul
15. 1966 - # 1 - Yesterday And Today
16. 1966 - # 1 - Revolver
17. 1967 - # 1 - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
18. 1967 - # 1 - Magical Mystery Tour
19. 1968 - # 1 - The Beatles
20. 1969 - # 2 - Yellow Submarine
21. 1969 - # 1 - Abbey Road
22. 1970 - # 2 - Hey Jude
23. 1970 - # 117 - In The Beginning (Circa 1960)
24. 1970 - # 1 - Let It Be
25. 1973 - # 3 - 1962-1966
26. 1973 - # 1 - 1967-1970
27. 1976 - # 2 - Rock 'N' Roll Music
28. 1977 - # 111 - Live! At The Star-Club In Hamburg, Germany; 1962
29. 1977 - # 2 - The Beatles At The Hollywood Bowl
30. 1977 - # 24 - Love Songs
31. 1980 - # 21 - Rarities
32. 1988 - # 149 - Past Masters, Volume One
33. 1988 - # 121 - Past Masters, Volume Two
34. 1994 - # 3 - Live At The BBC
35. 1995 - # 1 - Anthology 1
36. 1996 - # 1 - Anthology 2
37. 1996 - # 1 - Anthology 3
38. 1999 - # 15 - Yellow Submarine Songtrack
39. 2000 - # 1 - 1
40. 2003 - # 5 - Let It Be... Naked
41. 2004 - # 35 - The Capitol Albums, Volume 1
42. 2006 - # 46 - The Capitol Albums, Volume 2
43. 2006 - # 4 - Love
44. 2009 - # 40 - The Beatles In Mono
45. 2009 - # 15 - The Beatles Stereo Box Set
46. 2012 - # 24 - Tomorrow Never Knows
47. 2013 - # 7 - On Air - Live At The BBC Volume 2
48. 2013 - # 172 - The Beatles Bootleg Recordings 1963
49. 2014 - # 48 - The U.S. Albums

THE BEATLES : THE BILLBOARD 100 SINGLES CHART

01. 1964 - # 1 – I Want To Hold Your Hand
02. 1964 - # 14 – I Saw Her Standing There
03. 1964 - # 1 – She Loves You
04. 1964 - # 3 – Please Please Me
05. 1964 - # 41 – From Me To You
06. 1964 - # 26 – My Bonnie (My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean)
07. 1964 - # 2 – Twist And Shout
08. 1964 - # 74 – There’s A Place
09. 1964 - # 68 – Roll Over Beethoven
10. 1964 - # 45 – All My Loving
11. 1964 - # 1 – Can’t Buy Me Love
12. 1964 - # 48 – You Can’t Do That
13. 1964 - # 2 – Do You Want To Know A Secret
14. 1964 - # 35 – Thank You Girl
15. 1964 - # 1 – Love Me Do
16. 1964 - # 10 – P.S. I Love You
17. 1964 - # 88 - Why
18. 1964 - # 92 – Four By The Beatles
19. 1964 - # 97 – Sie Liebt Dich (She Loves You)
20. 1964 - # 19 – Ain’t She Sweet
21. 1964 - # 1 – A Hard Day’s Night
22. 1964 - # 53 – I Should Have Known Better
23. 1964 - # 12 – And I Love Her
24. 1964 - # 53 – If I Fell
25. 1964 - # 53 – Ringo’s Theme (This Boy)
26. 1964 - # 25 – I’ll Cry Instead
27. 1964 - # 95 – I’m Happy Just To Dance With You
28. 1964 - # 17 – Matchbox
29. 1964 - # 25 – Slow Down
30. 1964 - # 1 – I Feel Fine
31. 1964 - # 4 – She’s A Woman
32. 1965 - # 1 – Eight Days A Week
33. 1965 - # 39 – I Don’t Want To Spoil The Party
34. 1965 - # 68 – 4 – By The Beatles
35. 1965 - # 1 – Ticket To Ride
36. 1965 - # 46 – Yes It Is
37. 1965 - # 1 – Help!
38. 1965 - # 1 - Yesterday
39. 1965 - # 47 – Act Naturally
40. 1965 - # 1 – We Can Work It Out
41. 1965 - # 5 – Day Tripper
42. 1966 - # 3 – Nowhere Man
43. 1966 - # 81 – What Goes On
44. 1966 - # 1 – Paperback Writer
45. 1966 - # 23 - Rain
46. 1966 - # 2 – Yellow Submarine
47. 1966 - # 11 – Eleanor Rigby
48. 1967 - # 1 – Penny Lane
49. 1967 - # 8 – Strawberry Fields Forever
50. 1967 - # 1 – All You Need Is Love
51. 1967 - # 34 – Baby You’re A Rich Man
52. 1967 - # 1 – Hello Goodbye
53. 1967 - # 56 – I Am The Walrus
54. 1968 - # 4 – Lady Madonna
55. 1968 - # 96 – The Inner Light
56. 1968 - # 1 – Hey Jude
57. 1968 - # 12 – Revolution
58. 1969 - # 1 – Get Back
59. 1969 - # 35 – Don’t Let Me Down
60. 1969 - # 8 – The Ballad Of John And Yoko
61. 1969 - # 1 – Come Together
62. 1969 - # 3 - Something
63. 1970 - # 1 – Let It Be
64. 1970 - # 1 – The Long And Winding Road
65. 1970 - # 1 – For You Blue
66. 1976 - # 7 – Got To Get You Into My Life
67. 1976 - # 49 – Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
68. 1978 - # 71 – Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band/With A Little Help From My Friends
69. 1982 - # 12 – The Beatles’ Movie Medley
70. 1986 - # 23 – Twist And Shout
71. 1995 - # 67 – Baby It’s You
72. 1995 - # 6 – Free As A Bird
73. 1996 - # 11 – Real Love

THE BEATLES : THE BILLBOARD BUBBLING UNDER 100 SINGLES CHART

01. 1963 - # 116 – From Me To You
02. 1965 - # 101 – I’m Down
03. 1965 - # 102 – Boys

Posted by Roy on Tuesday, 09/2/2014 @ 22:44pm


THE BEATLES EPS ON THE BILLBOARD 100 SINGLES CHART

01. 1964 - # 92 - Four By The Beatles: All My Loving/This Boy/Roll Over Beethoven/Please Mr. Postman
02. 1965 - # 68 - 4 - By The Beatles: Honey Don't/I'm A Loser/Mr. Moonlight/Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby
03. 1995 - # 67 - Baby It's You: I'll Follow The Sun/Devil In Her Heart/Boys

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 11/6/2014 @ 17:16pm


http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/beatles-publicist-fab-four-creator-tony-barrow-dead-at-80-20160517#ixzz48xk0QxKH

Beatles Publicist, 'Fab Four' Creator Tony Barrow Dead at 80

Barrow arranged Beatles' fabled Decca audition, recorded their last live show, coined with the nickname 'Fab Four'

Posted by Roy on Tuesday, 05/17/2016 @ 20:27pm


Overrated

Posted by Reason on Wednesday, 10/19/2016 @ 16:31pm


To the ignorant comments on here about The Beatles and to those who linked and quoted the extremely inaccurate,ignorant,ludicrous Scaruffi article about The Beatles,which is filled with out right lies and distortions and I have a lot of strong evidence that debunks it.



Here is a very good educational you tube video by Mean Mr Mayo who is a member of The Beatles fan site,Abbryd debunking this stupid,ridiculous,ludicrous myth that The Beatles were ever a boy band.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmVlDCm5NOU


And,


Here is a 2011 amazon.com customer discussion where quite a few posters especially DK Pete do a very good job debunking this totally ignorant nonsense calling The Beatles a boy band,after a moron started this (unfortunately common) discussion,The Beatles Were The First Boy Band!


https://www.amazon.com/forum/music/ref=cm_cd_pg_pg2?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx1YA4ZE83NG9MC&cdMessage=Mx2NYHBEJWD1BW6&cdPage=2&cdThread=TxHMCJDLBBOKZR


Even in this 2011 discussion asking this totally stupid,ignorant,ludicrous question if The Beatles were a boy band,people who said they aren't even Beatles fans know it's absolute nonsense to call them a boy band,and as one of the fans said,The Beatles are the most talented,forward thinking bands and to call them a boy band is a complete insult to The Beatles.Another said they do have a problem with them being called this,because they are nothing like boy bands musically and it's derogatory.


http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1480330&page=3






The Beatles were *NEVER* a ''boy band''! As a poster Reverend Rock,who is a rock musician,reverend and a big Beatles fan said on a classic rock site years ago,that anyone who knows The Beatles history knows it's ludicrous to even *suggest* such a thing! And what a huge insult to their enormous talent as true singers,song writers and musicians! The Beatles were a *zillion* times more talented and cool than any stupid,uncool,untalented real boy band!



The Monkees are the first true boy band because they didn't even start off as a genuine band, they were all musical but they were originally hired as actors to play members of a TV pop rock band for their TV show, they didn't start off playing together like Paul at age 15,George age 14 and John age 16 playing guitars and singing,then playing a few years later for 8 hours a night in sleazy strip clubs( and The Beatles had sex with many young women groupies,many who were teen girls and strippers) like The Beatles did in Hamburg Germany(or anywhere) for 2 years in a row,taking speed pills to stay awake to do it,and working their a*ses off playing as a real rock n roll band,and then playing successfully in the Cavern club as a real rock n roll band for years by the time they made it big.



And The Beatles wrote and played a lot of great rock n roll and pop rock songs in their early days. John and Paul wrote the rock n roll song I Wanna Be Your Man write in front of Keith Richards and Mick Jagger in 1963 and they were both really impressed that they could just write a song just like that,and it inspired them to start writing their own songs and both bands became good friends from then on. And this song was one of The Rolling Stones first hits.



There is just no comparison to The Monkees etc. A guy so accurately said on a message board many years ago when some idiots called them a ''boy band'' that The Beatles were *never* a boy band,not even during their 1963-1965 period. And another guy said a few years after this on another forum,when some idiot said this,that he too once thought the early Beatles were a boy band like NYSNC,or The Back Street Boys,until he got out of 7th grade.


Every time some ignorant person unjustly calls them a boy band,I'm sure John Lennon's ashes must be turning with outrage.I'm sure he would go on to these sites and say I was *not* the founder and the leader of some f*king,stupid,uncool,untalented, boy band get that through your stupid f*cking heads!


And younger people don't know what type of music was out in 1963,even though I wasn't born yet,I know that The Beatles early songs like She Loves You and I Want To Hold Your Hand were hard rock compared to the music out then.There was just Bobby Darin,The Four Seasons,Bobby Vinton and The Beach Boys surfing hits.



Not only is this so ignorant,ridiculous,and false on a creative and musical level,but on their personal level too. I guarantee true genuine boy bands don't have groupies.



The Beatles had sex with *tons* of young women groupies,many who were just teen girls especially during their touring years of 1963-1966 ironically they did this the most during the joke fake cleaned up image Brian Epstein created for them in their early days.In reality they were like pimps playing the part of priests! It's no coincidence that in The Beatles Anthology video series that Paul,George and Ringo made,the story that is reported of The Beatles being thrown out of a US hotel in August 1965 because Paul was found in his hotel bedroom with an underage girl, that is included in the first great Beatles documentary from 1982 The Complete Beatles which none of them had any involvement making,is completely left out of The Beatles Anthology.



Paul McCartney also said in Hunter Davies 1968 first edition of the only authorized Beatles biography called,The Beatles, that he had sex at age 15 with a girl who was older and bigger than him,and most 15 year old boys weren't having sex in 1957,and he said he bragged about it to his classmates the next day and that he was the first one in his class to have sex.Paul also said in this book,that he would go into strip clubs at only 13 and he was the lad in his class that drew nude women.He also got another girl who was his girl friend,pregnant when he was 17 and she was 16,and Paul's father and her parents wanted them to get married but she had a miscarriage.


Hunter Davies says in his 1985 update of his Beatles biography, that The Beatles were no different from any other rock band when it came to groupies and he said they just had more to chose from. He said it was up to the road manager to say to these young women,you,you and you 5 minutes later which is really sexist and disgusting but it's totally typical for every rock band which is what they always were.

From Me To You,and especially She Loves You and I Want To Hold Your Hand were praised by some music critics even from the beginning,like William Mann of The London Times in December 1963 pointed out their interesting unusual chords and arrangements and London Times music critic Richard Buckle also in late 1963 called John and Paul the greatest composers since Beethoven after they wrote the music for a play Mods and Rockers.
Bob Dylan ,Roger McGuinn of The Byrds as early as 1963 and 1964 pointed out that even in early Beatles songs like She Loves You and I Want To Hold Your Hand had unusual and interesting chords and they arranged them.

Here in this article about The Beatles chords,Bob Dylan is quoted saying what he thought in 1964 about The early Beatles music,he said that they were doing things nobody was doing and that their chords were outrageous,just outrageous and their harmonies made it all valid.
http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/VOLUME03/Words_and_chords.shtml


Here in Rolling Stone Magazine's 100 Greatest Song Writers Bob Dylan is number 1,Paul McCartney is number 2, and John Lennon is number 3, Bob Dylan is quoted about a car trip when he heard a lot of Beatles songs on the radio, he said they were doing things and that he knew they were pointing the direction where music had to go.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-songwriters#john-lennon


Roger McGuinn has said that he started to play a 12 string guitar after he saw and heard George Harrison playing in in the A Hard Day's Night movie.

And John and Paul wrote one of The Rolling Stones first hits the rock n roll song, I Wanna Be Your Man in late 1963 right in front of them. And Keith Richards and Mick Jagger were impressed and said wow,how can you write a song just like that and it inspired them to start writing their own songs and both bands became good friends from then on.


John Lennon and Paul McCartney were such amazingly talented singer song writers that they were already writing hit songs for other artists as early as 1963 when their own song writing success was getting off the ground,besides The Rolling Stones,they also wrote hit songs in 1963 for Billy J.Krammer and The Dakatos,Celia Black,and Peter and Gordon etc.


Paul wrote his first song at age 14 and was playing guitar,John wrote heavy deep poetry but didn't start writing songs until he met Paul and was impressed that he wrote his own songs,and he too started to write his own songs at age 16,and they wrote together and never stopped from then on. Paul wrote the very pretty song I'll Follow The Sun at only 16.Even when The Beatles first came to America in February 1964 many people said how rare it was for *adult* rock n roll bands and solo artists to write their own songs,and Paul and John were already doing this as teenagers in the mid 1950's.



And even though I wasn't born yet in 1963 I know what type of music was popular on the radio,non rock n roll songs like Bobby Vinton,The Four Seasons,Bobby Darin and The Beach Boys surfing hits,The early Beatles songs like She Loves You, I Want To Hold Your Hand and I Saw Her Standing there etc were hard rock for 1963 and ahead of their time.



The Beatles even in their early days were writing and playing on records as well in concerts,both love ballads,and great rocking rock n roll and pop rock songs that they both wrote and cover songs including their great rocking performances in Sweden where the audience was quiet during their performances.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=RDAJczmuZ-OeU&v=EWFOO9CWfUQ




As The All Music Guide says in their excellent Beatles biography "That it's difficult to summarize their career without restating cliches that have already been digested by tens of millions of rock fans, to start with the obvious,they were the greatest and most influential act of the rock era and introduced more innovations into popular music than any other rock band of the 20th century."



"Moreover they were among the few artists of *any* discipline that were simultaneously the best at what they did *and* the most popular at what they did." They also say as singers John Lennon and Paul McCartney were among the best and most expressive in rock.


http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-beatles-mn0000754032/biography



Also on an excellent site,The Evolution of Rock Bass Playing McCartney Style by Dennis Alstrand,Stanley Clarke,Sting,Will Lee,Billy Sheehan,George Martin and John Lennon are quoted saying what a great,melodic and influential bass player Paul has always been.




http://www.alstrand.com/evolution/evolution.html



And Wilco's John Stirratt was asked in Bass Player which bass players have had the most impact on his playing and the first thing he said was, Paul McCartney is one of the greatest bass players of all time,if you listen to what he was tracking live in the studio it's unbelievable." "With his tone and musicality he was a huge influence,he covered all of his harmonic responsibilities really well but his baselines were absolutely melodic and inventive."



http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/15716769/windy-city-wingman-john-stirratt-lays-roots-wilco




In this 2010 interview the blogger says that John Stirratt has an affinity for good melodies so it's not surprising that Paul McCartney is one of his musical icons and then he quotes him saying that he's always absolutely in awe of his playing,including Paul's Beatles years.


http://audreeanne.blogspot.com/2010/02/interview-wilcos-john-stirratt-talk.html





And in an online 1977 Eric Clapton interview,Eric Clapton In His Own Words he says that there was always this game between John and George,and he said partly because John was a pretty good guitar player himself


http://www.superseventies.com/ssericclapton.html . He played live with John as a member of John's 1969 Plastic Ono Band.



And there is a great online article by musician and song writer Peter Cross,The Beatles Are The Most Creative Band Of All Time and he says that many musicians besides him recognize Paul as one of the best bass guitar players ever.He too says that John and Paul are the greatest song composers and that to say that John and Paul are among 2 of the greatest singers in rock and roll is to state the obvious,and that John,Paul and George were all excellent guitarists and that George is underrated by people not educated about music but that Eric Clapton knew better,he also says that both John and Paul played great leads as well as innovative rhythm tracks.



John Lennon co-wrote,sang and played guitar on one of David Bowie's first hits Fame in 1975 and David invited John to play guitar on his version of John's beautiful Beatles song Across The Universe.Brain May,Ozzy Osbourne,and Liam Gallagher and many more call The Beatles The Greatest Band Ever.'


http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Beatles-are-the-Most-Creative-Band-of-All-Time&id=222245



Also on MusicRadar Tom Petty,Joe Perry and Richie Sambora in What The Beatles Mean To Me all say how cool and great they thought The Beatles were when they first saw them on The Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964 when they were just teen boys,Richie was only 5.Tom Petty said he thought they were really really great.



Robin Zander of Cheap Trick said he's probably one of the biggest Beatles fans on the planet.Brad Whitford of Aerosmith said that a lot of that Beatles influence comes from Steven Tyler's collaboration with Mark Hudson both whom are absolute Beatles freaks and he said I guess the goal is to try and emulate probably some of the best music of the last 50 years which has to be The Beatles.




They were the greatest *rock* band ever! (NEVER A G*d dam*ed stupid,uncool,untalented boy band as so many ignorant morons misperceive them as!) And I have always loved this great blues rocker by Paul,She's A Woman.



Except live there isn't the piano,blending with the great rocking guitars,Paul's great prominent booming bass,and his great rock vocal! And once again it's amazing how good they sound on such limited,primitive sound systems of the time and with no feedback monitors so they couldn't even hear themselves singing and playing,yet they still played and sang great and in sync with each other.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsNgLiPyuCY




Here is their great April 1965 New Music Express Winner's Poll concert from April 11,1965.They won three years in a row.And notice that there are men and women of ages in the audience.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COSSsu1GSCk



Here they performed Paul's great rocking I Saw Her Standing There in Sweden in October 1963 which The Beatles recorded in February 1963 on their first album Please Please Me which was recorded in just one day.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkySom9bTfM




The Beatles performing their rocking cover of Long Tall Sally with Paul's great rocking vocal June 1964.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiXtk296YmE



Here in 1964 June in Melbourne Australia they are playing John's great rock song that they had recorded in February 1964 on their first great early album A Hard Day's Night.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8Dpt7TI9q0



And here they performed Paul's very good hard rocking,especially for early 1965,I'm Down at The Ed Sulivian Theater August 14,1965 one night before their live Shea Stadium performance.


https://vimeo.com/133531241



Here is their even harder rocking performance at Shea Stadium on August 15,1965 than they did on their record version of Paul's I'm Down. And they did what a great rock n roll band would do,they ended this rock n roll concert with this rocking song.



https://vimeo.com/146526352



Here they performed a rocking cover of Dizzy Miss Lizzy with John's great rock vocal,at the same She Stadium concert.



https://vimeo.com/14652584



Here is another great rocking Beatles performance of the cover Twist and Shout in June 1964 in Melbourne Australia




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdIzcm95NCM





And what a huge disgusting insult to all of them as very talented musicians,and to John and Paul as extremely talented song composers and great singers,and to John Lennon's memory and was never the founder and leader of some stupid,uncool,untalented boy band! And I'm certain that if John were still living he would come on youtube and other message boards and say I was *never* the founder and leader of any f**king stupid,uncool,untalented boy band get that through your stupid f**king heads!


If Beethoven,Mozart and Bach had screaming teenage girls in their audiences and they formed a band together they would have been a boy band too right?


Award winning classical composer and music professor Dr.Glen Gass's Beatles course he's been teaching since 1982 and he's been teaching a course in rock music in general since then.


http://courses.music.indiana.edu/rock/beatles.html


31 Year old Beatles and music scholar Arron Krerowicz plays many instruments & writes his own music too

http://www.aaronkrerowicz.com/faq.html


The early Beatles lyrics were more simple but a lot of their early music was actually much more complex. Just one of many examples I always loved this very early John song written and recorded in 1962 Ask Me Why.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ex-epsPWoc



I have always loved this great beautiful song written by John,with such typical beautiful melodies and harmonies John and Paul usually wrote,and John's usual beautiful singing voice.And this was amazingly recorded in 1962 on only two track tape! with such limited,primitive recording technology but it of course still sounds great.Except I hate mono it's limited sounding and only makes their already limited recording technology sound even more limited.I tried to find the stereo version of this song on youtube but I couldn't find it.



Here university of Pennsylvania musicologist Alan W.Pollack who did an 11 year extensive analysis of every one of the 200 Beatles songs,analyzes Ask Me Why and explains that it's structurally complex.


http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/amw.shtml



Here is Alan's whole Beatles song analysis series

http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/awp-notes_on.shtml


Both VH1 and MTV have been using Richie Unterberger's excellent All Music Guide’s long Beatles biography as their Beatles biography they both used to not have a very good biography of The Beatles.Here are great Beatles biographies that totally debunk this totally stupid,inaccurate,ludicrous,ridiculous myth that they were ever a ‘’boy band’’.



http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-beatles-mn0000754032/biography



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles


The Beatles own documentary The Beatles Anthology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJczmuZ-OeU&list=RDAJczmuZ-OeU#t=13


The great 1982 Beatles documentary,The Complete Beatles narrated by award winning British actor Malcolm McDowell


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG8GbhSZq-o&list=PL2BCD47B5F0BDD651&index=2



And any great reputable accurate Beatles biography would debunk this ludicrous,stupid myth.And I have *never* read or heard *any* legitimate serious rock critics or rock music journalists describe them this way and for extremely great reasons.

Posted by JPGR on Saturday, 01/14/2017 @ 13:30pm




I recently found this great blog post by a guitar player and musically academically knowledgeable guy debunking the totally ignorant,ludicrous hateful lies by cognitive scientist and music critic Piero Scaruffi about The Beatles that ignorant Beatles haters calling them a talentless boy band,are quoting on so many sites for many years now and still are.


https://factorysunburst.wordpress.com/2014/08/31/piero-scaruffi-and-truth/comment-page-1/#comment-517


On a heavy metal site someone posted Scaruffi's horrible inaccurate bullsh*t about The Beatles and a guy said that Scaruffi made up contrived bullsh*t about The Beatles and that a lot of people think he knows what he's talking about because he's a cognitive scientist.Many people elsewhere have said that Scaruffi just made up most of this bullsh*t,he made all of it up,the only facts he got right are John,Paul,George,Ringo,George Martin and Brian Epstein's names and when someone tells that many lies you really can't trust them especially about the subject they wrote about.



I actually emailed this idiot Scaruffi back in 2001 to try to debunk his ignorant lies about The Beatles,and he emailed me back three times,and I was civil to him,(which wasn't easy,and I had to control myself from not cursing him,but I know that wasn't going to work to get through to him) and he was civil to me too,but you just can't get through to him.He actually said that he thought I'm one of the most intelligent Beatles fans he ever communicated with because I never mentioned The Beatles record sales as to why they are great and he actually claimed that this all the majority of Beatles fans said to him,that they sold the most records,which he denies that they did in his horrid article. I don't believe him at all I'm sure that a lot of knowledgeable fans did inform him of a lot of academic and music scholarship that debunks his stupid,horrible lies but he just doesn't want to recognize it because he irrationally hates The Beatles and he wants everyone else to hate them to.


Here is another very good debunking of Scaruffi's inaccurate bullsh*t by another guy back in 2009


http://www.last.fm/es/user/RadioheadOasis/journal/2009/03/23/2l98yy_arguments_against_piero_scaruffi_main_article_on_the_beatles

Posted by JPGR on Saturday, 01/14/2017 @ 13:43pm



Here is my blog with a lot of great strong information called,The Beatles Were *NEVER* A Boy Band They Were Always A Great Rock n Roll,Pop Rock And Rock Band From The Start!


https://thebeatleswereneveraboybandtheywerealwaysagreatrocknrollpoprock.wordpress.com/

Posted by JPGR on Saturday, 01/14/2017 @ 13:48pm


In the 2012 Newsweek Beatles special celebrating 50 years since their music came out,Steve Jobs was quoted from Walter Isaacson's biography as talking about how the band's approach to recording "refining and refining" influenced his own creative process. He said they were such perfectionists they kept it going and going he said. Steve Jobs said that this made a big impression on him when he was in his thirties.Newsweek rightfully says,that it's hard to imagine another rock band that influenced the way computers are made just as it is to think of one whose name became an adjective. And Newsweek said and that's why The Beatles still stand apart.





They quote Steve Jobs saying,"Somebody else could have replicated the Stones,(Newsweek then says,nailing the difference between artists shaped by their times and those who shape them),no one could have been Dylan or The Beatles."

Posted by JPGR on Saturday, 01/14/2017 @ 13:51pm


One of the countless lies Scaruffi wrote about The Beatles is that no other music artists praised them and for very good reasons,and yet countless rock and other types of music artists not only have and still praise them,but many have called them the greatest band ever,and have called John Lennon and Paul McCartney the two greatest song writers of the 20th century even over their own bands and solo selves.



In 2010 I read an online article that had an interview with Ernie Isley of The Isley Brothers about a recent tribute to Jimi Hendrix, in which he says that Jimi played for The Isley Brothers & lived with them & that they & he were fans of The Fab Four from the moment they all watched them on The Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964. I always thought that Jimi was only a later period Beatles fan,I knew he played Sgt.Pepper live the weekend it came out,& he played Day Tripper live also,& several people on different message boards said that when he was asked where the direction of music was going,he said ask The Beatles.





Posted by JPGR on Saturday, 01/14/2017 @ 13:56pm


NME News



Bob Dylan talks of Beatles friendship


Legend admits: 'I'm in awe of McCartney'

May 16, 2007









Bob Dylan has spoken in depth about his longstanding friendship with The Beatles and his particular bond with George Harrison.








Talking to Rolling Stone magazine, Dylan talked freely about Harrison’s struggle to find his voice within the songwriting collective of John Lennon and Paul McCartney.










"George got stuck with being the Beatle that had to fight to get songs on records because ofLennon and McCartney. Well, who wouldn’t get stuck?" he asked.






Dylan highlighted the writing talents of Harrison, saying: "If George had had his own group and was writing his own songs back then, he’d have been probably just as big as anybody."





Speaking against popular belief, the singer also denounced any rumors of competitiveness towards Lennon and McCartney, asserting, "They were fantastic singers. Lennon, to this day, it’s hard to find a better singer than Lennon was, or than McCartney was and still is."



Nodding his cap to McCartney in particular, Dylan concluded: "I’m in awe of McCartney. He’s about the only one that I am in awe of. He can do it all. And he’s never let up... He’s just so damn effortless.''




http://www.nme.com/news/bob-dylan/28350

Posted by JPGR on Saturday, 01/14/2017 @ 14:00pm


Ozzy Osbourne has been a big Beatles fan since he was an early teenager,and he picked She Loves You as one of his favorite songs for Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest songs and Sgt.Pepper is one o his favorite albums. He says that not loving The Beatles is like not loving oxygen and he called The Beatles the greatest band to ever walk the earth.




Here Ozzy Osbourne says that he doesn't anyone will ever be as great as The Beatles and he said they were all great,even George Harrison and Ringo Starr were great.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FD0_MtCDcQQ





Here is a video of Ozzy Osbourne meets Paul McCartney for the first time and they hug each other.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkudA0P27Q0




Here Ozzy Osbourne says how hearing She Loves You at age 15 inspired him to go into music.




http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/news/ozzy-osbourne-beatles-moved-me-30320049.html


Posted by JPGR on Saturday, 01/14/2017 @ 14:03pm


In this 2008 interview asking Keith Richards who the five greatest bands ever are besides The Rolling Stones,he said obviously he put The Beatles in there. This was 6 years of course before he ridiculously criticized The Beatles brilliant Sgt.Pepper album that The Rolling Stones tried but failed to copy and equal.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNKckhYqNBk

Posted by JPGR on Saturday, 01/14/2017 @ 14:07pm


Not only did The Beatles give The Rolling Stones one of their first hits with their rock n roll song I Wanna Be Your Man as you know,and they wrote it right in front of them and Keith Richards and Mick Jagger were impressed and like wow how can you write a song just like that and it motivated them to start writing their own songs.

















And as I already said The Rolling Stones were good friends with and fans of The Beatles.











Mick Jagger was at 4 Beatles recording sessions and Keith Richards was at 2 of them with him.Also Mick Jagger was such a big Beatles fan that in May 1967 when The Beatles were recording their song Baby You're A Rich Man he came there and stood on the sidelines to watch and listen to them recording it. His name is also on the tape box and he likely sang at the end verses.In Mark Lewishon's great detailed music diary book, The Beatles Recording Sessions there is a big black and white picture of Mick Jagger sitting in between John and Paul in the recording console room during The Beatles Revolver recording sessions too.








The Beatles remastered albums sold much more 40 years after their break up than The Rolling Stones remastered albums and they are still together! The Beatles have the best selling album of the last decade with their CD 1.And soon after their music went on iTunes,it went to the top.









And Brian Jones played the saxophone on the strange Beatles song, You Know My Name Look Up The Number and he and Mick Jagger's girlfriend at the time Marianne Faithful contributed sound effects on the song Yellow Submarine.
As this guy Sal66 who is also a musician and has also posted on sites debunking ignorant cr*p about The Beatles has rightfully pointed out, The Beatles wrote,played and recorded I Feel Fine (which The All Music Guide says has brilliant,active ,difficult guitar leads and riffs) in the Fall of 1964 which was the first use of feedback guitar on a pop rock record and it also had a prominent guitar riff throughout this very good song almost a year *before* The Rolling Stones's Satisfaction came out.










And on John's great Norwegian Wood recorded in the Fall of 1965,George Harrison was the first to play a sitar on a pop rock song and it was released on their great album Rubber Soul in December and then in May 1966 The Rolling Stones song Paint It Black came out with Brian Jones playing a sitar.









And in Paul McCartney's authorized biography Many Years From Now, Mick Jagger's former girlfriend singer Marianne Faithful says that she and Mick used to go over to Paul's house a lot and hang out in his music room. She said he never went to see them at their house they always went to visit him because he was Paul McCartney.She also said that Mick was intimidated by Paul but that Paul was totally oblivious to this.







Paul also says in this book that he turned Mick on to pot in his music room and he said which is funny because a lot of people would assume it was the other way around. Mick Jagger was also with The Beatles in Bangor when they got the call that Brian Epstein was found dead because he went on the train with them with his then girl friend singer Marianne Faithful to see the Maharishi to study meditation that weekend.











Also Mick Jagger is quoted on a Rolling Stones fan site,timeisonourside.com saying that Keith Richards liked The Beatles because he was quite interested in their chord sequences and he says he also liked their harmonies which he said were always a slight problem for The Rolling Stones.He said Keith always tried to get the harmonies off the ground but they always seemed messy.Mick then says,that what they never really got together were Keith and Brian singing backup vocals and he said it didn't work because Keith was a better singer and to keep going,oooh,ooh,ooh(he laughs) and he said Brian liked all of those oohs which Keith had to put up with.He also said Keith was capable of much stronger vocals than ooh,ooh,ooh.









On this same fan site Keith Richards is quoted from 1971 saying that The Beatles were perfect for opening doors,when they went to America they left it wide open for them and he said that The Rolling Stones could never have gone to America without them.He also said that The Beatles are so f**king good at what they did.

Posted by JPGR on Saturday, 01/14/2017 @ 14:10pm


As The Rolling Stone Album Guide said, not liking The Beatles is as perverse as not liking the sun. And Ozzy Osbourne( he's been a huge Beatles fan he was a young teen from The Beatles early days,and he picked She Loves You as one of Rolling Stone Magazine's greatest songs of all time,and Sgt.Pepper is one of hi favorite albums) said not loving The Beatles is like not loving oxygen. And a guy who runs Keno's Classic Rock n Roll Site and who runs a Rolling Stones and John Lennon fan site says in his review of The Beatles 1967-1970 Blue Album damn The Beatles were one great group and he said in his great review of The Beatles 1962-1966 Red album, that if you don't love or at least like The Beatles and their music then you are not a true rock fan and more than likely will never ever get it.




He also says that John Lennon showed on Paul's rocker Get Back why he should have played lead guitar more often because he did such a good job of it. He also said he played a pretty good slide guitar on George's For Your Blue and he said John also played one of the first and best acid guitar parts on his great rocker Revolution.






http://www.keno.org/classic_rock/rock_albums_reviews.html










Posted by JPGR on Saturday, 01/14/2017 @ 14:15pm


This is a description of the 2009 Beatles 3 part radio special of how brilliant and influential The Beatles were from the beginning and it has interviews with Brian Wilson,Tom Petty,Dave Grohl,Slash,Jeff Lynne,Ann Wilson,Nancy Wilson,Peter Asher,Jackson Browne,Bob Seger,T-Bone Burnett,Cameron Crowe,Mika,Mark Ronson,Susan Werner,Rick Rubin,and Joe Boyd.



http://beatlesblogger.com/2009/12/04/new-three-part-beatles-radio-series-here-there-everywhere/

Posted by JPGR on Saturday, 01/14/2017 @ 14:18pm


Another of the countless inacurrate things Scaruffi says about The Beatles writing 3 minute songs,well until The Beatles broke the rules for everyone with the long song Hey Jude in 1968, the radio's rules for everyone was that they wouldn't play any songs longer than 3 minutes.



If you look up online The Rolling Stones early hit songs like Paint It Black etc they too are only 3 minutes and some seconds.Pain It Black is only 3 minutes and 22 seconds long.



As Tears Go By is only 2 minutes and 33 seconds.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Tears_Go_By_(song)



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paint_It_Black



Under My Thumb is only 3 minutes and 41 seconds long.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_My_Thumb



Get Off Of My Cloud is only 2 minutes and 55 seconds long



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Off_of_My_Cloud



Satisfaction is only 3 minutes and 44 seconds.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(I_Can%27t_Get_No)_Satisfaction



Ruby Tuesday is only 3 minutes and 15 seconds.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Tuesday_(song)



The Who's My Generation is only 3 minutes and 18 seconds.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Generation



Happy Jack by The Who is only 2 minutes and 14 seconds



long.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Jack_(song)

etc, etc

Posted by JPGR on Saturday, 01/14/2017 @ 14:22pm


Here in this 1971 interview at the Sgt.Regis Hotel John Lennon is asked by the interviewer about him using drummer Jim Keltner and if this was a reflection on Ringo's drumming.And John said, Oh no I love his drumming. He then said I think Keltner is a bit technically better but Ringo is still one of the best drummers in rock.




http://web.archive.org/web/20080108131358/http://www.geocities.com/wireless_machine/lennon/st_regis.htm







And who did John Lennon use as a drummer on his first brilliant solo album John Lennon Plastic Ono Band when he could have gotten almost anyone who would have jumped at the chance to play on one of John's albums? Ringo.











And Ringo Star was already a successful drummer in the most popular successful band in Liverpool,Rorry Storm and The Hurricanes when John,Paul and George asked him to join The Beatles.And George Martin didn't think that Pete Best was that good,and he and John,Paul and George thought that Ringo was much better.








Also Phil Collins and Max Weinberg are both Ringo fans. And Phil Collins ( who has always been a big Beatles fan and he was in the audience in the concert scene in their great movie A Hard Day's Night at age 13) says he can't even duplicate Ringo's great drumming in A Day In The Life. George Martin says that Ringo always had a great feel and ear for a song and that it was his idea to play the tom toms on A Day In The Life giving it a unique percussion sound.






Mark Lewisohn says in his great book,The Beatles Recording Sessions,that on a handful of occasions during all of the several hundred session tapes and thousand of recording hours can Ringo be heard to have made a mistake or wavered in his beat. He then says that his work was remarkably consistent-and excellent-from 1962 right through to 1970.

Posted by JPGR on Saturday, 01/14/2017 @ 14:29pm


Here is a really good July 1976 Rolling Stone Magazine interview with George Martin in which he's asked about George Harrison who he says is talented but John and Paul are so enormously talented that it was silly to look elsewhere.



But it's obvious George Harrison was even more talented as a song writer and guitarist than most people realize because in this same interview George Martin says that he didn't give George much encouragement he just tolerated him. And of course John and Paul didn't give him much encouragement,so he did mostly everything on his own.





http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/george-martin-recalls-the-boys-in-the-band-19760715?page=2#comments

Posted by JPGR on Saturday, 01/14/2017 @ 14:33pm


Around 2003 I found an online interview with George Martin and he said that even though he has produced many other music artists and he has never had the same success before or after producing The Beatles,he has never known or worked with anyone as brilliant as The Beatles.




He was also interviews in the 1990's on a Breakfast With The Beatles show on a local rock station,and he said that John Lennon and Paul McCartney were incredibly talented people and he said it like he still couldn't believe it. And he also said they both were extraordinarily talented song writers and great singers.






And in the excellent thorough book by Mark Lewisohn,The Beatles Recording Sessions,George Martin,and so many of The Beatles tape operators and recording engineers are interviewed,(and in the beginning there is a great 1987 interview with Paul McCartney) and they describe in detail how truly innovative, brilliant and creative especially John and Paul were in their amazing 8 year recording career. And there is a big black and white picture of Mick Jagger sitting in between John and Paul in the recording console room listening to the playback of the songs from The Beatles Revolver album.














And my cousin who was born in 1968 who used to be a lawyer,and his brother born in 62 who is still a lawyer,and their sister born in 64,their oldest brother born in 60,and their parents have always been Beatles fans. My cousin born in 68,went to England around 1991 and he told me that he was at a British Museum where the works of Shakespeare,Dickens,Wodsworth and Keats,Lennon and McCartney's lyrics are right in the same case. And he said the majority of visitors always said,forget the Shakespeare etc,lets go over to the Lennon and McCartney lyrics.








When I once asked him,if he still liked The Beatles he said,best band there ever was.My step cousin born in 1958,said they probably were the greatest band ever.He saw Paul McCartney and Wings in May 1976 in concert when he was 18 and he said it was a great show.

Posted by JPGR on Saturday, 01/14/2017 @ 14:37pm


This 1999 review of Mark Lewisohn's excellent Beatles studio diary book where many of The Beatles recording engineers and tape operators and their producer George Martin are interviewed (and it shows how truly innovative,brilliant and creative especially John and Paul were in the recording studio),The Beatles Recording Sessions titled, Behind The Creative Genius Of A Groundbreaking Band by a musician himself says it all, he says that as a musician he found Mark Lewisohn's portrayal of The Beatles genius and in parenthesis he says, especially that of John Lennon and Paul McCartney, to be completely thorough and accurate, as well as insightful. He then says if you are to buy any one Beatles book,buy this one.





http://www.amazon.com/The-Complete-Beatles-Recording-Sessions/product-reviews/1454910054/ref=cm_cr_dp_see_all_summary?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1&sortBy=helpful>http://www.amazon.com/The-Complete-Beatles-Recording-Sessions/product-reviews/1454910054/ref=cm_cr_dp_see_all_summary?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1&sortBy=helpful;;





And this reviewer RAS who became a big Beatles fan after he read The Beatles Recording Sessions book,said,I think The Beatles ARE BRILLIANT and he said he despairs what his life would be like without The Beatles!! When he first saw this book he said he thought,oh another garbage Beatles book.







http://www.amazon.com/The-Complete-Beatles-Recording-Sessions/product-reviews/1454910054/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_paging_btm_2?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1&sortBy=helpful&pageNumber=2






Posted by JPGR on Saturday, 01/14/2017 @ 14:42pm


In The All Music Guide's great review of The Beatles Past Masters album,they say they proved that they could rock really,really hard with their songs I Feel Fine,She's a Woman,and the peerless I'm Down


http://www.allmusic.com/album/past-masters-mw0000691313


all from late 1964 and early 1965.

Posted by JPGR on Saturday, 01/14/2017 @ 14:45pm


In this All Music Guide review of The Beatles late 1963 album,With The Beatles Stephen Thomas Erlewine says at the end of the very good review that still the heart of With The Beatles lies not in the covers but the originals where it was clear that even at this early stage The Beatles were rapidly maturing and changing turning into expert craftsman and musical innovators.




http://www.allmusic.com/album/with-the-beatles-mw0000192941

Posted by JPGR on Saturday, 01/14/2017 @ 14:47pm


The Beatles do need defending because there truly is so much ignorant,inaccurate myths about them like Scaruffi's ,the most ignorant and ludicrous of all,is that they were ever a boy band and they never were not even for half of a second.









Here is a review of The Beatles first album,Please Please Me by a top Epionions music reviewer Scapp70 he says they need defending and he said that he had been reading some really negative things about The Beatles in print and online,and he said it's just so wild.He said but when you're as big as The Beatles there is bound to be some negativity out there. He explains how brilliant they were,how they made an amazing amount of great albums in such a short time and why they are rightfully widely considered the best band ever.














http://www.epinions.com/review/musc_mu-81434/2001989951/22786379
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Posted by JPGR on Saturday, 01/14/2017 @ 14:51pm


I have read all of the recent almost all 5 star amazon.com reviews of the new remastered amazon.com best seller,The Beatles Live At The Hollywood Bowl and many people are saying what I and other fans have said elsewhere,that given how limited and primitive sound systems of the time were,and they had no feedback monitors so they couldn't even hear themselves singing and playing,they played and sounded amazingly good! I heard the small samples on amazon.com,and what struck me is how typically great and prominent Paul's bass playing is,someone said he's playing it like a lead instrument.Also an amazon.com reviewer said how underrated John's rhythm guitar playing is and how George Harrison's guitar playing is very good and how great Ringo's drumming is.
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Here on Paul McCartney.com quite a few members are saying that it's amazing and incredible that The Beatles played so great and sang so great with such primitive sound systems at the time and no feedback monitors so they couldn't even hear themselves singing and playing.One member said they were without a doubt the greatest live rock band ever!




http://maccaboard.paulmccartney.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=91901&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=45





Many are saying the same things on this music forum including how great and hard rocking of a live band The Beatles really were.



http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/beatles-live-at-the-hollywood-bowl-out-on-cd-9-9-16-vinyl-on-11-18-16.567252/page-141





I just found only part of this review from The London Times,you have to have a subscription to read the whole article though,and it says in the first part of it,that it's remarkable they played as well as they did given that they couldn't hear a thing.





http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/pop-the-beatles-live-at-the-hollywood-bowl-f9pxrkmzg

Posted by JPGR on Saturday, 01/14/2017 @ 14:54pm


It's really amazing how good The Beatles sounded live with such limited primitive crappy sound systems of the time,but they were so great that they would have even sounded good playing out of of cave.

There is an online interview with Roger Daltry,Roger's Journey With The Who in The Sun http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/sftw/607170/Rogers-journey-with-The-Who.html





and he was asked if The Who had screaming girls at a certain point,and he said after Can't Explain they did. He said it was the screaming teenage era and every band had them on their way up. He said it was fun at first but the trouble for a performer when you are that young and inexperienced is that you start to judge your performances on the amount they scream,he said it's nonsense which is why Lennon gave up. He also said that The Who's manager turned their image overnight from scruffy rockers to Mods.





When The Beatles played live in 1963,64,65 & 66 they only had 100 watt amplifiers,no feedback monitors so they couldn't hear themselves sing and play,plus the screaming crowds and that's why they gave up touring.




George Harrison says in The Beatles Anthology video series,that for their August 1965 Shea Stadium concerts, special 100 watt amplifiers were made and that they went up from only 30 watts before. Given how limited and primitive the sound systems were then,it's amazing they sounded as good as they did live.But it was impossible for *anyone* to sound great on those kind of limited,primitive sound systems of the time.





Former Kiss guitarist Bob Kulick who produced the heavy metal Beatles tribute album, Butchering The Beatles, said he saw The Beatles in concert in 1966 and he said he could hear parts of Baby's In Black & Paperback Writer and they sounded amazing.




A guy Steve from Canada said on Artist Facts,that he saw The Beatles live in 1966 and The Stones in 1996(and the sound systems by then were a zillion times better!) and he said don't get me wrong,The Stones were great but they were no match for The Beatles and he called The Beatles The Greatest Band Of All Time.




The Beatles started out playing 8 hours a night in the sleazy strip clubs of Hamburg Germany,taking speed pills to stay awake,wearing tight black leather jackets and pants,smoking and cursing on stage,and had sex with so many young women groupies including the strippers in those clubs,they were successful there. They also played successfully live in The Cavern Club for several years in the early 1960's.




John and George especially hated Beatle Mania,and George says in The Anthology series, that it took a toll on their nervous systems, they had no life either trapped in hotel rooms most of the time. They wanted to be popular & successful as every band does, but they didn't want or ask for the hysteria. John says in his 1975 Tomorrow Show interview that the screaming wasn't doing the music any good,and that things would break down and nobody would know.





The Beatles sound great on their live roof top January 1969 concert in The Let It Be Film, and the sound systems had improved by then,(although still very limited compared to today's) and there were no more screaming crowds.




Paul was playing guitar and writing songs at 14 and he started soon after his beloved nurse and midwife mother Mary died of breast cancer, and he wrote the beautiful song Let It Be after he had a real seeming dream where he saw her alive again and she told him to just accept things as they are. He says in his authorized biography, that when he woke up he thought how great it was to see her alive again.






And there is this very good article by Collin Fleming from The Atlantic, 50 Years Later: The Greatest Beatles Performance Of All Time







http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/10/50-years-later-the-greatest-beatles-performance-of-all-time/280801/







And there used to be the full video of The Beatles February 1964 Washington Colosseum and there were over 1,000 likes and many people were saying what Frank and Jack say to this now only audio version of this concert,( many people on youtube are saying why are many of The Beatles videos gone off of youtube now and some are saying it's because of UMG_MK and I don't know what this is.) that it's amazing that with such crappy sound systems of those days and no feedback monitors so they couldn't even hear themselves singing and playing and many said they still sound so good and great and some say this Washington concert proves what a great live band they were and before they got so tired of all of the Beatlemania garbage they had to put up with all of the screaming drowning out their great music.











https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge66-bK0E70

Posted by JPGR on Saturday, 01/14/2017 @ 15:01pm


Scaruffi so ignorantly and inaccurately called George Harrison a ''pathetic'' guitar player,





Hunter Davies wrote in his 1968 only authorized Beatles biography,The Beatles that George Harrison at only age 13 would stay up till 2 in the morning playing his guitar until he got all of the chords exactly right and his fingers were bleeding and his nice mother stayed up with him to. And One of The Beatles engineers Geoff Emerick says in Mark Lewisohn's excellent Beatles recording diary,The Beatles Recording Sessions that in early 1966 when The Beatles were recording John's song I'm Only Sleeping, George Harrison played backwards guitar the most difficult way possible even though he could have taken an easy way,and it took him 6 hours just to do the guitar overdubs! He then made it doubly difficult by adding even more distorted guitars and Geoff says this was all George's idea and that he did all of the playing.






Eric Clapton said in a 1992 interview when he and George were asked what they admired about each other during their Japan tour, that George is a fantastic slide guitar player. He and George were very good friends and they obviously admired and respected each others guitar playing and George played guitar on Cream's song Badge.





Posted by JPGR on Saturday, 01/14/2017 @ 15:04pm


Also, classical composer Leonard Bernstein called John and Paul the greatest composers of the 20th century so did Elton John on a 1991 CBS Morning news show,he was asked who he musically admires and he said you can talk about your Rogers and Hammerstein but for the quantity of quality songs that Lennon and McCartney wrote in that short period of time,he said he thinks they were the greatest song writers of the 20th century.Brian Wilson said this too on a 1995 Nightline Beatles tribute show. The Beatles are in the Vocal Hall of Fame and John and Paul have been in the song writing Hall of Fame since 1987,Keith Richards and Mick Jagger have been in it since 1993,but as of now no members of The Who,or Led Zeppelin are in The Song Writing Hall Of Fame or The Vocal Hall Of Fame,The Rolling Stones aren't in The Vocal Hall of Fame either and The Beatles were awarded about 20 prestigious Ivor Novello awards as great singers and song writers in just a remarkable 8 year recording career,John and Paul won the first one in early 1964.





They also won an Oscar for their film score of their 1970 film Let It Be.

Posted by JPGR on Saturday, 01/14/2017 @ 15:08pm


In this interview with news reporter Larry Kane who interviewed The Beatles from 1964-1966 on their concert tours,and he's in Ron Howard's Beatles documentary Eight Days A week,says that he was at 46 Beatles concerts and there wasn't a bad one. He also says he thinks the film is a reminder of how good The Beatles were as musicians,and he said modern musicians we look at the puny sound equipment they had and will be amazed and that some of their concerts had their music going out on the stadium public address system.




http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-37355216

Posted by JPGR on Saturday, 01/14/2017 @ 15:10pm


Here are The Rolling Stones live in 1963 and 1964 they don't sound better or even as good as The Beatles live then! They aren't even rocking.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV62UcqbcQA





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wfj1O_fApvA




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV241mctbg0




Here is The Rolling Stones in 1963 performing the cover Roll Over Beethoven.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64GbValI_To



Here are The Beatles also performing Roll Over Beethoven in 1964,and clearly their version is more rocking and better!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rLci6tPOtY

Posted by JPGR on Saturday, 01/14/2017 @ 15:15pm


In 1964 The Rolling Stones wrote and recorded a Rice Krispies TV commercial jingle not something cool like a cigarette ad and they also had teen girls screaming at their early concerts.Maybe The Rolling Stones should be called a boy band too.I'm pretty certain The Beatles never wrote and recorded a jingle for a cereal TV commercial.



But the point is that just like The Beatles went along with their manager Brain Epstein's fake cleaned up image to get their foot in the door after years and years of working their as*es off,The Rolling Stones did the same thing here.




http://www.snopes.com/the-rolling-stones-rice-krispies-jingle/



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZBmhEMFdl0

Posted by JPGR on Saturday, 01/14/2017 @ 15:19pm


Here is The Rolling Stones performing one of my favorite songs by them,Street Fighting Man the music is great in it,although the words are very good too, while most of the comments are positive,there is a guy in the comments who said it's a weak performance and they sound like a high school cover band.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHugEELD8o8

Posted by JPGR on Saturday, 01/14/2017 @ 15:20pm


Here is part of The Beatles great January 1969 roof top concert. What Steve Paradiso says in the comments,That The Beatles were arguably The Greatest Rock n Roll Band Ever is *so true!*





https://vimeo.com/95681569

Posted by JPGR on Saturday, 01/14/2017 @ 15:22pm


I also met two people and know a third one who saw The Beatles in concert,one woman and one man who were my high school teachers who saw them in 1966,and the other my second cousin who saw them at the Baltimore Coliseum when she was 16 in 1964,she became a psychologist.They all told me that they were close enough to them to see and hear the The Beatles and that they were great.

Posted by JPGR on Saturday, 01/14/2017 @ 15:25pm


And I have been a huge Beatles fan, especially a big highly impressed John and Paul fan since I was 11 and I got my first Beatles book for my 11th birthday,I started collecting their albums at age 9, and I had every album by age 13. I was born after 1964 too. when I was 13 a guy at school who was 2 years older than me,gave me Hunter Davies authorized biography,he was a fan and his older brother was an even bigger fan.I would read that book for hours till 5 in the morning.



My father was a big Bob Dylan fan and he had a lot of his albums,and he also had many Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass albums,and albums by Leonard Cohen and Peter Paul and Mary when I was growing up. And my sister who is 4 years older had a big music collection of all different types of music artists.


Most people I have known all of my life,including my female and male cousins, friends and neighbors know they were brilliant.When I was 11 I had a music teacher who asked us to guess who he was talking about when he said they were geniuses and that they wrote 200 songs,and that most of their songs and albums are great and critically acclaimed in just an 8 year recording career,and I said,The Beatles and he said yes that's right!






Posted by JPGR on Saturday, 01/14/2017 @ 15:26pm




Award winning classical composer and music professor Dr.Glen Gass's Beatles course he's been teaching since 1982 and he's been teaching a course in rock music in general since then.



http://courses.music.indiana.edu/rock/beatles.html


http://info.music.indiana.edu/faculty/current/gass-glenn.shtml

Posted by JPGR on Saturday, 01/14/2017 @ 15:31pm


Many people on different message boards have said the only Rolling Stones song they like is Paint It Black, my first cousin who is a head hunter helping people find jobs,she used to an accountant,and when she was 21 a huge Rolling Stones fan she also had The Beatles Revolver album in her bedroom.




When The Rolling Stones did their Steel Wheels tour in 1989 I asked her if she still liked The Rolling Stones and she said no,but the same year at her wedding shower my male and female cousins were talking about The Beatles who we all love,and my cousin said Oh I love The Beatles.





And when I was going to Paul McCartney live for the first time in 1990 and I was very excited about it,I was going on about how great he,John and The Beatles were and she said OK, I said you said you love The Beatles too and she said hey bottom line they were geniuses!




And I once heard a radio host who was a former rock DJ and he said The Beatles are really like the only music artists who have just about every song they did was great and wasn't great was still good. He said even their album tracks that weren't released as singles.



And many people have said it's The Rolling Stones albums that have just a handful of very good songs and the rest is filler.

Posted by JPGR on Saturday, 01/14/2017 @ 15:33pm



On a message board discussion some years ago about what bands and artists people consider overrated,quite a few said The Rolling Stones and some said The Beatles or both,and a guy said if you ask almost anybody in the music business they will tell you that The Beatles were the Greatest Band Ever.






I once spoke to a rock DJ about The Beatles and even though he said they aren't his favorite,he said nobody can say that The Beatles weren't great,he said especially John Lennon and Paul McCartney as song writers.





And I once spoke to another rock DJ who is a huge Beatles fan & who has hosted a 2 hour Breakfast With The Beatles radio show for over 20 years & I said that The Beatles work in the recording studio described in details in The Beatles Recording Sessions by Mark Lewisohn,is so impressive & brilliant & he said oh it's the work of geniuses. I said how can anyone not recognize what extraordinary singer song composers John Lennon & Paul McCartney were? And he said oh you can ask anyone in the music business & they will tell you that.


Posted by JPGR on Saturday, 01/14/2017 @ 15:38pm


This is a great August 1986 hour long Paul McCartney interview by Barbara Hower from Entertainment This Week. She asked him a lot of great intelligent questions including how he felt about John Lennon's horrible,tragic murder and she got a rare great interview out of him and he comes across as very likeable intelligent,funny,serious and charming.






This is really the best interview with Paul that I have ever seen or heard.She also talked to him about his drug arrests and all of drug related songs of The Beatles and his time in jail in Japan because of having tons of pot with him and she asked him after having so many groupies how has he managed to stat faithful to one woman,and he only half jokingly says it hasn't been easy.And in between commercials Lionel Richie and David lee Roth talk about how great The Beatles,especially John and Paul were as song writers.



I still have this interview on an old VHS tape from the time. It's not on youtube though for some reason. Unfortunately it gets interrupted by advertisements but then the interview resumes.But I just watched it again and there were no commercials now, I hope they don't include them again.



Paul also says in this interview that soon after John died Yoko called him up and told Paul that John really loved him.




Notice how uncomfortable Paul's face expression is for about a minute in this great August 1986 hour long Paul McCartney interview by Barbara Hower from Entertainment This Week when she says to him,probably your first great love before you married Linda was Jane Asher, it struck a chord.I'm sure that Paul was really in love with intelligent beautiful British actress Jane too,you don't write the beautiful love songs such as And I Love Her,Things We Said Today, and Here There Everywhere,(plus the great songs he wrote about his arguments with her,which was his own fault because of his sexism constantly trying to get Jane to give up her acting career she loved so much and that she had been doing since she was 5 years old.She left him for good when in early 1968 after they had been lovers for 5 years and engaged to be married for 7 months,she found him in their bed in their house with another woman.



http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3qtunj












































Posted by JPGR on Saturday, 01/14/2017 @ 15:43pm


And John wrote this beautiful,brilliant song with beautiful music and John's typical beautiful singing voice, Number 9 Dream on his very good 1974 solo album,Walls And Bridges and he produced and arranged the whole album by himself including this beautiful,brilliant song!




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq2aaUp3hYc

Posted by JPGR on Saturday, 01/14/2017 @ 15:45pm


Paul McCartney is the Mozart of rock and he really was born this way because he inherited his father Jim McCartney's and Jim's father's natural music talent,to a rare ridiculous extreme degree. Paul's father Jim taught himself how to play the piano at age 14,and he broke an ear drum at the age of 10 so he was deaf in one ear,and he went on to become a classical jazz pianist and the leader of his own band Jim Mac's Band who were popular in clubs in Liverpool. His father even wrote an instrumental song called,walking In The Park With Eloise which Paul and Wings recorded with the name The Country Hams in 1974 and included this song on their 1976 Wings album,Wings At The Speed Of Sound.





But his father and grandfather weren't poets,they were naturally musically talented and Paul has always been more of a *music genius* than a lyric genius even though he can and has written very good lyrics,but he doesn't have to.And even when he did it's his *music* that is what is so great about his songs and albums.




Paul's father's father,also played brass and other instruments in a band and was a good singer with a good singing voice.

Posted by JPGR on Saturday, 01/14/2017 @ 15:47pm


In this 2002 interview with John’s May Pang who was his girl friend during his separation from Yoko she was asked as the last question,what would she most like the world to know about John,and she said the fact that he was a kind sensitive man who was insecure in his personal life.




http://articles.absoluteelsewhere.net/Articles/may_pang_int.html

Posted by JPGR on Saturday, 01/14/2017 @ 15:54pm


Here is university of Penn graduate,musicologist Alan Pollack's whole extensive 11 year analysis of all 200 Beatles songs



http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/awp-notes_on.shtml

Posted by JPGR on Saturday, 01/14/2017 @ 16:08pm



George Martin was very musically talented and always seemed to be a very nice person too.








Brian Epstein and George Martin were both very lucky to meet The Beatles and to have them,especially John Lennon and Paul McCartney as their employees,it was like they discovered gold or won the lottery twice and in a way three times with George Harrison too.George Martin had moderate success as a producer of mostly comedy albums before he became The Beatles producer,and he never had nearly as much success before and after producing them even though he went on to produce many other music artists. But he said that he never has known and worked with anyone as brilliant as The Beatles,especially John and Paul.




And the truth is, if Brian Epstein hadn't had the good luck of becoming their manager he would have remained a record store manager that no one ever heard of and George Martin never would have been as known and successful either.I'm sure that some other manager and producer would eventually discover John and Paul and probably George sooner or later because they were just too extremely unusually musically talented music artists for them not to be.

Posted by JPGR on Saturday, 01/14/2017 @ 16:29pm


A guy named Tim Ellison posted on a message board back in 2006 after someone had linked to Scaruffi's horrible,inaccurate,article about The Beatles,and he said that it was a horror and that he never wanted to read that garbage again.In 2007 he posted on the same forum that Scaruffi's Beatles analysis is freaking ridiculous.



I emailed Tim about this back in February 2007,and he emailed me back and said yeah Scaruffi's Beatles article is really bizarre and he never wanted to visit his page again.

Posted by JPGR on Saturday, 01/14/2017 @ 16:49pm


In this September 1971 interview with John and Yoko,John is asked if playing 8 hours a night in Hamburg Germany for two years in a row improved The Beatles playing,and he said Oh amazingly because before that they had only played bits and pieces but in Hamburg they played for hours and hours and that this is how they developed their rock n roll sound and playing. John also mentions how they took pills(meaning Speed) to stay awake tobe able to play for so long.


The interviewer asked Yoko if she knew about what John called all of the raving( meaning sex with all of the young women,and teen girl groupies) that went on during their tours and Yoko was shocked and said Oh God! and she was no innocent herself,John was her third husband,and she had affairs and several abortions before she met him.



http://www.beatlesinterviews.org/db1971.0905.beatles.html

Posted by JPGR on Saturday, 01/14/2017 @ 17:42pm


JPGR, thanks for all the widely spaced Beatles trivia.

Posted by Paul in KY on Saturday, 01/14/2017 @ 19:00pm


Rate Your Music Top 1000 Rock Artists Queen is number 75,The Beatles are so rightfully number 1



http://rateyourmusic.com/list/noname219/top_1000_rock_artists/10/



And on the site Digital Dreamdoor where many musicians are members The Beatles are the number 1 Greatest Rock Artists.




http://digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_artistsddd.html





On their 100 Greatest Rock Bass Guitarists Paul McCartney has been number 8 for many years now, John Deacon is number 32.John Paul Jones is number 27,and Bill Wyman is number 95.





http://digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_bassguitar.html





Out over 100 Greatest Rock Drummers Ringo Star is number 13,Roger Taylor is number 31 and Charlie Watts is number 91.




http://digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_drummers.html




Out of 200 Greatest Rock Song Writers John Lennon and Paul McCartney are of course number 1 members of Queen are number 47.




http://digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_songwriters.html

Posted by JPGR on Saturday, 01/14/2017 @ 21:12pm


On Last FM. before Last FM. changed their site and now they unfortunately took off the fan groups,The Rolling Stones only had 80 members and they had 2,000 of their fan group in 2007,The Beatles had over 2,000 which became 18,000 and the average age of fans is 22 more guys than girls and they are from all over the world. In 2006,2007 and 2008 The Beatles were the # 1 most listened music artists on Last.FM and they are very popular on YouTube and Rate Your Music where many male and female fans in their teens and 20's call them The Greatest Rock Band Ever. They are now the number 1 classic Rock band on there as they have been for years




http://www.last.fm/tag/classic+rock/artists and they did their homework right,in their Beatles biography they rightfully say that The Beatles were an iconic *rock band* and are the most critically acclaimed and successful rock band ever. And on Rate Your Music,they are the highest rated music artists out of over

3,000.http://rateyourmusic.com/list/noname219/top_artists/



And they are number 1 out over 1,000 Top Rock Artists



http://rateyourmusic.com/list/noname219/top_1000_rock_artists/10/





The Beatles are still rightfully regarded by most people,most rock critics,and many other music and rock artists as The most creative,innovative,and prolific rock band ever.




In 1995 25 years after they broke up their Anthology CD's went straight to # 1 around the world and I heard a rock DJ say that 40% of the people buying them were teenagers,the same exact thing when their 1 CD came out in 2000 30 years after they broke,up and in 2009,39 years after they broke up,they were the second biggest selling artists in the last decade,and their 1 CD was the biggest selling album. And their music went to the top soon after it went on iTunes.And soon after their music started streaming on Spotify it became very popular and Billboard reported that 65% of listeners are under 34 years old which means they weren't even born when they broke up in 1970.




There are also a lot of people in their teens,20's and 30's who are fans of John's solo great music,and Paul's solo and Wings great music.

Posted by JPGR on Saturday, 01/14/2017 @ 21:16pm


I suddenly don't feel all that bad about my past drunk post body of work.

Posted by DarinRG on Sunday, 01/15/2017 @ 02:35am


Great Beatles Course By Music Professor John Covach University Of Rochester


https://www.coursera.org/learn/the-beatles

Posted by JPGR on Sunday, 01/22/2017 @ 02:59am


University Of Berklee Multi-talented Musician,Guitar Teacher,First Female Guitar Teacher,And Now Music Professor Has Loved The Beatles Since She Saw Them On The ED Sullivan Show When She Was 4 Years Old.



https://www.berklee.edu/news/4635/meet-the-beatle



https://www.berklee.edu/people/lauren-passarelli

Posted by JPGR on Sunday, 01/22/2017 @ 03:01am


Her name is Lauren Passarelli

Posted by JPGR on Sunday, 01/22/2017 @ 03:03am


Bass Player & Berklee Music Professor Suzane M.Clark Teaches Courses On The Beatles,Solo Beatles & Music Of John Lennon



https://www.berklee.edu/people/suzanne-m-clark

Posted by JPGR on Sunday, 01/22/2017 @ 03:05am


University Of Southern California Music Professor And Musician,Bill Biersach Has Always Been A Huge Beatles Fan & And Has Been Teaching A Beatles Course For 40 Years.



https://music.usc.edu/bill-biersach-40-years-with-the-beatles-and-usc/



http://dailytrojan.com/2012/04/16/popular-beatles-class-once-controversial/

Posted by JPGR on Sunday, 01/22/2017 @ 03:06am





On the Ottawa Beatles Fan Site The Beatles Timeline Explains,For Those Who Just Discovered The Band This Historical Presentation Should Provide Enough Insight For You To Develop An Appreciation, Of Why Beatles Fans,Music Lovers And Historians All Agree That The Beatles Were The Greatest Rock N Roll Band To Emerge Out Of The 20th Century.


http://beatles.ncf.ca/timeline.html

Posted by JPGR on Saturday, 01/28/2017 @ 20:25pm


On this old site that is updated, Rock On The Net,it says few could argue that one of the best groups, if not the best in rock n roll history is The Beatles.


http://www.rockonthenet.com/artists-b/beatles_main.htm

Posted by JPGR on Saturday, 01/28/2017 @ 20:27pm


Paul in KY, often my posts are too close together and don't paragraph so I had to space them out more to make sure that doesn't happen.

Posted by JPGR on Saturday, 01/28/2017 @ 20:31pm


DarinRG you must be drunk now when you posted your comment in response to my great information on here.

Posted by JPGR on Saturday, 01/28/2017 @ 20:34pm


By the way the music professor John Covach at University of Rochester teaching The Beatles course,is also a musician who plays in a Beatles tribute band.

Posted by JPGR on Saturday, 01/28/2017 @ 20:39pm



This guy who did the very good rebuttal of Scaruffi's lies and falsehoods about The Beatles very accurately points out what I knew from the moment that I read Scaruffi's garbage back in 2001,he says that Scaruffi tells consistent and deliberate lies about what The Beatles did,how they were regarded and what they were attempting to do,and that the lies he tells are a deliberate and consistent effort to make The Beatles look overrated to people.


https://factorysunburst.wordpress.com/2014/08/31/piero-scaruffi-and-truth/comment-page-1/#comment-517




On a heavy metal site someone posted Scaruffi's horrible inaccurate bullsh*t about The Beatles and a guy said that Scaruffi made up contrived bullsh*t about The Beatles and that a lot of people think he knows what he's talking about because he's a cognitive scientist.Many people elsewhere have said that Scaruffi just made up most of this bullsh*t,he made all of it up,the only facts he got right are John,Paul,George,Ringo,George Martin and Brian Epstein's names and when someone makes up that many lies about a subject you really can't trust them especially about that subject at all.


I actually emailed this idiot Scaruffi back in 2001 to try to debunk his ignorant lies about The Beatles,and he emailed me back three times,and I was civil to him,(which wasn't easy,and I had to control myself from not cursing him,but I know that wasn't going to work to get through to him) and he was civil to me too,but you just can't get through to him.



He actually said that he thought I'm one of the most intelligent Beatles fans he ever communicated with because I never mentioned The Beatles record sales as to why they are great and he actually claimed that this all the majority of Beatles fans said to him,that they sold the most records,which he denies that they did in his horrid article. I don't believe him at all I'm sure that a lot of knowledgeable fans did inform him of a lot of academic and music scholarship that debunks his stupid,horrible lies but he just doesn't want to recognize it because he irrationally hates The Beatles and he wants everyone else to hate them too.

Posted by JPGR on Saturday, 01/28/2017 @ 20:45pm


And even though it's not what made The Beatles so great,Scaruffi lies when he says they aren't the biggest selling band ever,The Recording Industry Association of America reports that they are


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_music_artists

Posted by JPGR on Saturday, 01/28/2017 @ 20:52pm


Darin, I just hope this guy doesn't go full Roy on us. Or full Enig, either. As much as I love the Beatles too, he's making me wanna drink.

Posted by Philip on Saturday, 01/28/2017 @ 21:47pm


Phillip, we can only hope...At least Roy & Enig know how to properly use the return key.

Posted by Paul in KY on Sunday, 01/29/2017 @ 07:34am




Here on Music Radar Tom Petty,Joe Perry and Richie Sambora in What The Beatles Mean To Me all say how cool and great they thought The Beatles were when they first saw them on The Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964 when they were just teen boys,Richie was only 5.Tom Petty said he thought they were really really great.And Alan White from the group Yes is also interviewed.



http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/tom-petty-what-the-beatles-mean-to-me-219800



http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/aerosmiths-joe-perry-what-the-beatles-mean-to-me-219308




http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/bon-jovis-richie-sambora-what-the-beatles-mean-to-me-219479




http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/alan-white-from-yes-what-the-beatles-mean-to-me-219747














































Posted by JPGR on Monday, 02/6/2017 @ 07:33am


In this interview with news reporter Larry Kane who interviewed The Beatles from 1964-1966 on their concert tours,and he's in Ron Howard's Beatles documentary Eight Days A week,says that he was at 46 Beatles concerts and there wasn't a bad one. He also says he thinks the film is a reminder of how good The Beatles were as musicians,and he said modern musicians will look at the puny sound equipment they had and will be amazed and that some of their concerts had their music going out on the stadium public address system.



http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-37355216

Posted by JPGR on Monday, 02/6/2017 @ 08:48am


Giles Martin,George Martin's son who recently remastered The Beatles 1964 and 1965 Live At The Hollywood Bowl concerts rightfully says on All Songs Considered when people ask him if The Beatles were a good live band,he says they were a great live band and he mentions the very limited,primitive sound systems they had back then,and says how great The Beatles played live in the studio on their first 3 or 4 albums,and that they all played their instruments very good.



He obviously means they played these first several albums live because they didn't even have any overdubbing until 1965 so they had to play and record those albums live.And their first albums before the great A Hard Day's Night album were recorded on only 2 track tape,they had 4 track by A Hard Day's Night and only 8 track for The White album,Let It Be and Abbey Road.



http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2016/08/25/491201322/all-songs-1-the-beatles-are-live-and-sounding-better-than-ever

Posted by JPGR on Monday, 02/6/2017 @ 08:50am


The so-called "Fab Four" were NOT rock n' roll; they were stupid, manufactured pop.

Posted by Luke Madigan on Monday, 05/8/2017 @ 16:20pm


I was going to be a smart (bleep) and say that they should put the Beatles in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (and yes, I am aware that they have been in since 1988), but I'm just happy to have the 800th comment. So far.

Posted by Joe on Saturday, 05/20/2017 @ 00:05am


I would like to extend Happy Birthday wishes to Sir Paul McCartney. Thank you for your many musical contributions over the years.

Posted by Enigmaticus on Sunday, 06/18/2017 @ 15:42pm


George Martin Says In This book his biography,All You Need is Ears,There's No Doubt Lennon & McCartney Were good Musicians,They Had Good Musical Brains & The Brain Is Where Music Originates,It Has Nothing To Do With Your Fingers,As It Happened They Could All Play Their Own Instruments Very Well,And that Paul is an excellent music all- arounder, probably the best bass guitar-player there is, a brilliant guitarist,a first class drummer and a competent piano player.




George Martin said in The Beatles early days he tried to learn to play the guitar in order to have a better musical communication between him and The Beatles,but he couldn't learn it and gave it up,but he says that John and Paul learned to play the piano far more quickly than he was able to master their instrument.



https://books.google.com/books?id=4Yoio9MewhcC&pg=PA138&lpg=PA138&dq=GEorge+Martin+There%27s+No+doubt+that+Lennon+and+Mccartney+were+good+musicians&source=bl&ots=nYFEf9PDYw&sig=T9fGcaDl7OBiOLyZGZa9W1f1fDY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjOt83bzpPWAhXBzlQKHWB5CAIQ6AEISTAF#v=onepage&q=GEorge%20Martin%20There's%20No%20doubt%20that%20Lennon%20and%20Mccartney%20were%20good%20musicians&f=false


All You Need Is Ears
books.google.com


Posted by Topazthecat on Wednesday, 05/9/2018 @ 15:04pm


George Martin Says In This book his biography,All You Need is Ears,There's No Doubt Lennon & McCartney Were good Musicians,They Had Good Musical Brains & The Brain Is Where Music Originates,It Has Nothing To Do With Your Fingers,As It Happened They Could All Play Their Own Instruments Very Well,And that Paul is an excellent music all- arounder, probably the best bass guitar-player there is, a brilliant guitarist,a first class drummer and a competent piano player.




George Martin said in The Beatles early days he tried to learn to play the guitar in order to have a better musical communication between him and The Beatles,but he couldn't learn it and gave it up,but he says that John and Paul learned to play the piano far more quickly than he was able to master their instrument.



https://books.google.com/books?id=4Yoio9MewhcC&pg=PA138&lpg=PA138&dq=GEorge+Martin+There%27s+No+doubt+that+Lennon+and+Mccartney+were+good+musicians&source=bl&ots=nYFEf9PDYw&sig=T9fGcaDl7OBiOLyZGZa9W1f1fDY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjOt83bzpPWAhXBzlQKHWB5CAIQ6AEISTAF#v=onepage&q=GEorge%20Martin%20There's%20No%20doubt%20that%20Lennon%20and%20Mccartney%20were%20good%20musicians&f=false


All You Need Is Ears
books.google.com


Posted by Topazthecat on Wednesday, 05/9/2018 @ 15:05pm


George Martin Says In This book his biography,All You Need is Ears,There's No Doubt Lennon & McCartney Were good Musicians,They Had Good Musical Brains & The Brain Is Where Music Originates,It Has Nothing To Do With Your Fingers,As It Happened They Could All Play Their Own Instruments Very Well,And that Paul is an excellent music all- arounder, probably the best bass guitar-player there is, a brilliant guitarist,a first class drummer and a competent piano player.




George Martin said in The Beatles early days he tried to learn to play the guitar in order to have a better musical communication between him and The Beatles,but he couldn't learn it and gave it up,but he says that John and Paul learned to play the piano far more quickly than he was able to master their instrument.



https://books.google.com/books?id=4Yoio9MewhcC&pg=PA138&lpg=PA138&dq=GEorge+Martin+There%27s+No+doubt+that+Lennon+and+Mccartney+were+good+musicians&source=bl&ots=nYFEf9PDYw&sig=T9fGcaDl7OBiOLyZGZa9W1f1fDY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjOt83bzpPWAhXBzlQKHWB5CAIQ6AEISTAF#v=onepage&q=GEorge%20Martin%20There's%20No%20doubt%20that%20Lennon%20and%20Mccartney%20were%20good%20musicians&f=false


All You Need Is Ears
books.google.com


Posted by Topazthecat on Wednesday, 05/9/2018 @ 15:05pm


Something went wrong with your site,I didn't intend to post more of the same post!

Posted by Topazthecat on Wednesday, 05/9/2018 @ 15:07pm


Something went wrong with your site,I didn't intend to post more of the same post!

Posted by Topazthecat on Wednesday, 05/9/2018 @ 15:07pm



In this PDF file of several chapters from the book The Beatles And Their Revolutionary Bass Player by bass player Dennis Alstrand,he explains that Paul' McCartney's bass playing was already first rate in 1961 only months after he learned to play it which he got stuck with because John and George didn't want to play it, and he was not a bad bass player by 1963 and you can hear on The Beatles 1963 and 1964 recordings and live playing that he was already very good even on such primitive,limited sound systems with no feedback monitors so they couldn't even hear themselves singing and playing yet they still sang and played great and in sync with each other



And very limited,primitive recording technology recording technology and many people said this about his bass playing too in reviews of the remastered The Beatles Live At The Hollywood Bowl album and I could hear this too just from 3 minutes of samples on amazon.com.



Many people also said you can hear George Harrison's great guitar playing,Ringo's great underrated drumming,and John Lennon's underrated rhythm guitar playing, and Paul became a great bass player starting on The Beatles late 1965 Rubber Soul album.



http://dennisalstrand.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Sample-The-Beatles-and-their-Revolutionary-Bass-Player.pdf

Posted by Topazthecat on Wednesday, 05/9/2018 @ 15:09pm



This is a very good London Times review of the remastered The Beatles Live at The Hollywood Bowl album says it’s remarkable that The Beatles played as well as they did given that they couldn’t hear a thing beyond the screaming of 17,500 teenage girls.



They should have also mentioned the poor very primitive and limited sound systems of the time and no feedback monitors so they also couldn’t hear themselves singing and playing but the amazingly sang and played great and in sync with each other anyway.It says that they were a lean and vibrant rock n roll band honed to perfection after toughing it out with five sets a night in rough Hamburg nightclubs.



https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/pop-the-beatles-live-at-the-hollywood-bowl-f9pxrkmzg


Posted by Topazthecat on Wednesday, 05/9/2018 @ 15:11pm


Here is what Sting,Stanley Clarke,Billy Sheehan, Will Lee, John Lennon, and George Martin,say about what a great and influential bass player Paul has always been.It's on a very cool and great extensive site,The Evolution of Rock Bass Playing McCartney Style. Here is what Sting,Stanley Clarke,Billy Sheehan, Will Lee, John Lennon, and George Martin,say about what a great and influential bass player Paul has always been.


http://www.recmusicbeatles.com/public/files/faqs/bass.html


THE EVOLUTION OF ROCK BASS PLAYING;McCARTNEY STYLE


www.recmusicbeatles.com


1964/1965 Relative obscurity for a while. '64/'65 were not banner years for the development of rock bass playing. As always, his playing was tasteful and right in the ...



And Wilco's John Stirratt was asked in Bass Player in February 2005 which bass players have had the most impact on his playing and the first thing he said was, Paul McCartney is one of the greatest bass players of all time,if you listen to what he was tracking live in the studio it's unbelievable." "With his tone and musicality he was a huge influence,he covered all of his harmonic responsibilities really well but his baselines were absolutely melodic and inventive."


http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/15716769/windy-city-wingman-john-stirratt-lays-roots-wilco



And here in this 2010 interview he says he's always absolutely in awe of Paul's bass playing including during The Beatles years.


http://audreeanne.blogspot.com/2010/02/interview-wilcos-john-stirratt-talk.html


Audio Ink Radio: Interview: Wilco's John
Stirratt talks melody


audreeanne.blogspot.com


Wilco bass player and founding member John Stirratt has an affinity for good melodies, so it makes sense Paul McCartney is one of his musical icons.


And there is a great online article by musician and song writer Peter Cross,The Beatles Are The Most Creative Band Of All Time and he says that many musicians besides him recognize Paul as one of the best bass guitar players ever.He too says that John and Paul are the greatest song composers and that to say that John and Paul are among 2 of the greatest singers in rock and roll is to state the obvious,and that John,Paul and George were all excellent guitarists and that George is underrated by people not educated about music but that Eric Clapton knew better,he also says that both John and Paul played great leads as well as innovative rhythm tracks.


http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Beatles-are-the-Most-Creative-Band-of-All-Time&id=222245


The Beatles are the Most Creative Band of All Time


ezinearticles.com


The Beatles phenomenon went way beyond any kind of stardom that had ever been seen before because of their creative songwriting abilities, their musical abilities and ...


Posted by Topazthecat on Wednesday, 05/9/2018 @ 15:14pm


Here is an interview with University of Pennsylvania graduate (1 op the top universities in the US) musicologist Alan Pollack who did an 11 year study of all 200 Beatles songs, here he says The Beatles specifically John and Paul wrote what he calls chord anomalies which are very clever complex unusual chords including in their early music, and he said about these chord anomalies in their early music that people tend to underrate the first half of their catalog in this respect.


http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/interview.shtml



Here is Alan's entire Beatles songs analysis


http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/awp-notes_on.shtml

Posted by Topazthecat on Wednesday, 05/9/2018 @ 15:20pm



The Beatles even in their early days were writing and playing on records as well in concerts,both love ballads,and great rocking rock n roll and pop rock songs that they both wrote and cover songs including their great rocking performances in Sweden where the audience was quiet during their performances. Here is their great rocking performance of Paul's I Saw Her Standing There in Sweden in 1963



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtXrbGR06nE

I Saw Her Standing There (Live) - The Beatles
www.youtube.com
Live on Drop-In TV Show, Stockholm, Sweden. October 30, 1963.




I Saw Her Standing There (Live) - The Beatles


www.youtube.com


Live on Drop-In TV Show, Stockholm, Sweden. October 30, 1963.




They were the greatest *rock* band ever (NEVER A G*d dam*ed stupid,uncool,untalented boy band as so many ignorant morons misperceive them as!) And I have always loved this great blues rocker by Paul, recorded in the studio October 1964,She's A Woman they performed in 1965 .The All Music Guide also called this a rocking song.



Except live there isn't the piano,blending with the great rocking guitars,Paul's great prominent booming bass,and his great rock vocal.


And once again it's amazing how good they sound on such limited,primitive sound systems of the time and with no feedback monitors so they couldn't even hear themselves singing and playing,yet they still played and sang great and in sync with each other.



The Beatles HD - She is A Woman (Remastered)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsNgLiPyuCY

The Beatles HD - She is A Woman (Remastered)


www.youtube.com

The Beatles HD - She is A Woman (Remastered)





The Beatles HD - She is A Woman (Remastered)


www.youtube.com


The Beatles HD - She is A Woman (Remastered)




Here is their great April 1965 New Music Express Winner's Poll concert from April 11,1965.They won three years in a row.And notice that there are men and women of ages in the audience.



The Beatles at the NME Poll-Winners' All-Star Concert, 11 April 1965


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc8wtwASPhY


The Beatles - Live Empire Pool - 1965 + Presentation

www.youtube.com

00:00 Speech 01:23 THE BEATLES !! 02:39 I Feel Fine 05:17 She's a Woman 08:26 Baby's in Black 11:04 Ticket To Ride 14:47 Long Tall Sally 17:34 Presentation




The Beatles topped the bill at the 1964-65 New Musical Express Annual Poll-Winners' All-Star Concert. It was the third consecutive year they appeared at the ...



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG-DXGKDBcA



Here they performed Paul's great rocking I Saw Her Standing There in Sweden in October 1963 which The Beatles recorded in February 1963 on their first album Please Please Me which was recorded in just one day.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqJ-AGY6Qhs




The Beatles performing their rocking cover of Long Tall Sally with Paul's great rocking vocal 1964.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxT0DcRR9cQ


The Beatles - Long Tall Sally - Live

www.youtube.com

I created this video with the YouTube Video Editor (http://www.youtube.com/editor) Paul McCartney Lead Vocals/Bass John Lennon Rhythm Guitar George Harrison ...




Here in 1964 June in Melbourne Australia they are playing John's great rock song You Can't Do That and John played lead guitar on, that they had recorded in February 1964 on their first great early album A Hard Day's Night



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8Dpt7TI9q0




The Beatles - You cant do that live ( HQ )

www.youtube.com


http://www.facebook.com/TheUltimateBeatlesFanpage?ref=hl LIKE :) IF YOUR A FAN




And here they performed Paul's very good hard rocking,especially for early 1965,I'm Down at The Ed Sulivian Theater August 14,1965 one night before their live Shea Stadium performance.



https://vimeo.com/133531241



The Beatles - I'm Down

vimeo.com


I'm Down Ed Sullivan Theater CBS Studio 50 August 14, 1965




Here is their even harder rocking performance at Shea Stadium on August 15,1965 than they did on their record version of Paul's I'm Down. And they did what a great rock n roll band would do,they ended this rock n roll concert with this rocking song.


https://vimeo.com/146526352



The Beatles - I'm Down Live At Shea Stadium - Aug 15th, 1965


vimeo.com

This is "The Beatles - I'm Down Live At Shea Stadium - Aug 15th, 1965" by Isaac on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.




Here they performed a rocking cover of Dizzy Miss Lizzy with John's great rock vocal,at the same She Stadium concert.


https://vimeo.com/146525847



The Beatles - Dizzy Miss Lizzy Live At Shea Stadium - Aug 15th, 1965


vimeo.com


This is "The Beatles - Dizzy Miss Lizzy Live At Shea Stadium - Aug 15th, 1965" by Isaac on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love…


Here is another great rocking Beatles performance of the cover Twist and Shout in June 1964 in Melbourne Australia


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtJ7nzGX63A





The Beatles Twist And Shout Live HD

www.youtube.com


The Beatles Twist And Shout Live HD 720p HD «Twist and Shout» es una canción compuesta por Phil Medley y Bert Russell. Fue titulada originalmente como «Shake...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8jc0Ng5ZQ4





Beatles -- Live -- Washington DC Concert [ film highlights! -- improved audio ]

www.youtube.com

There's a new Beatles movie disc, reduced on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Eight-Days-Week-Touring-Blu-Ray/dp/B01M13O81J/theofficiapet-20 Also, I have a book on the ...



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6r523MsuUk





Beatles -- Live -- Australia Concert [ film w/ great audio! ]


www.youtube.com


The latest Beatles movie disc is reduced on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Eight-Days-Week-Touring-Blu-Ray/dp/B01M13O81J/theofficiapet-20 Also, I have a book...



And what a huge disgusting insult to all of them as very talented musicians,and to John and Paul as extremely talented song composers and great singers,and to John Lennon's memory and was never the founder and leader of some stupid,uncool,untalented boy band! And I'm certain that if John were still living he would come on youtube and other message boards and say I was *never* the founder and leader of any f**king stupid,uncool,untalented boy band get that through your stupid f**king heads!



If Beethoven,Mozart and Bach had screaming teenage girls in their audiences and they formed a band together they would have been a boy band too right?




















































Posted by Topazthecat on Wednesday, 05/9/2018 @ 15:29pm


Keno who runs The Rolling Stones,John Lennon and Classic Rock n Roll site says exactly what you said in this video in his great 2017 review of The Beatles first album Please Please Me,that they were different from any other bands and music artists before them because they wrote,sang and played their own songs and before them music groups had professional song writers writing songs for them,he said John and Paul not only wrote great songs on please Please Me,but that John and Paul were both great lead singers who couldn't be beat at the time,and that they were on their way to becoming the greatest rock and roll band ever.



He also said that the album had rock and pop songs and that it starts with Paul's I Saw Her Standing There which he calls pure rock and roll,and he said John's vocal on Twist And Shout,(which John sang so great with a bad sore throat from a bad cold) was hard rock before any hard rock was being done.



http://www.keno.org/classic_rock/album_reviews/please_please_me.htm


Posted by Topazthecat on Wednesday, 05/9/2018 @ 15:32pm


I forgot to include that Keno's first favorite band is The Rolling Stones,The Beatles are his very close second.

Posted by Topazthecat on Wednesday, 05/9/2018 @ 15:34pm


The Beatles didn't influence the modern boy bands,how by getting them to form as a genuine rock band,playing their instruments for years and years working their as*es offf to make it big? By writing their own very good to great songs including for other artists including The Rolling Stones as John and Paul were already doing in 1963 as their own song writing success was just getting off the ground?



Out of over 400 great almost all 5 star amazon.com reviews from September 2016 for the remastered The Beatles Live At The Hollywood Bowl album, not one person called them a boy band which is a miracle I knew wouldn't last,some reviewers said they were the greatest band of all time,the greatest rock band ever,or greatest rock and roll band ever,or others just didn't say that and just said they liked the album or out of over 400 mostly great reviews of Ron Howard's film Eight Days A Week.


But sure enough in February a guy gave The Live At THe Hollywood Bowl album a 4 star review but ludicrously called The Beatles the number 1 boy band of all time.



So a reviewer who is a big Beatles fan James L.Dickinson said to him Boy Band? I take it that Led Zeppelin(who I could never stand) The Doors,or Pink Floyd,or Black Sabbath AC/DC are all boy bands? They are a Rock n Roll band,you may of heard of the term.The rest of us know what a so-called boy band is,other than that strange comment you nailed the rest.



I can totally understand his shock and how mind boggling it is whenever he sees them called this,but I can't believe he never saw or heard this before because just about anywhere The Beatles are written about and discussed online, idiots are constantly calling The Beatles an overrated,talentless 60's boy band and comparing them to stupid,uncool,untalented genuine boy bands like One Direction,NSYNC,THe Back Street Boys,and New Kids On The Block etc and whatever next boy band comes out.



Amazon.com: Customer reviews: Live At The Hollywood Bowl










Posted by Topazthecat on Wednesday, 05/9/2018 @ 15:43pm


Great Picture Says,THE BEATLES WEREN'T A BOY BAND DUMBASS


https://www.pinterest.com/pin/339529259382156275/


It has been reposted by people on other sites,and in the comments on Pinterest,a woman also said,The Beatles weren't a boy band,and then she said boy bands are terrible,they have little or no talent like One Direction.



Here is also my great blog with a lot of great information debunking this extremely ignorant,ludicrous myth that The Beatles were ever a boy band,



The Beatles Were NEVER A Boy Band They were Always A Great Rock n Roll,Pop Rock And Rock Band From The Start!




https://thebeatleswereneveraboybandtheywerealwaysagreatrocknrollpoprock.wordpress.com/



And this great blog post by Barefoot Justine,


https://barefootjustine.com/2013/10/06/ok-lets-stop-the-beatle-boyband-shit-already/

Posted by Topazthecat on Wednesday, 05/9/2018 @ 15:48pm


This 'Topazthecat' seems to post a bit like Zusu....

Posted by Paul in KY on Wednesday, 05/9/2018 @ 16:30pm


Not really, Paul. She doesn't flood a forum quite so egregiously, and has never, iirc, ever mentioned the Beatles.

Posted by Philip on Wednesday, 05/9/2018 @ 17:44pm


Philip, the big breaks between paragraphs & multiple posts of basically the same thing reminded me of her.

I thought Zusu liked the Beatles...they came thru Chicago once.

Posted by Paul in KY on Thursday, 05/10/2018 @ 05:57am


Marty Robbins "El Paso" long and short version was a crossover hit released in 1959, with the long version being over four minutes long. It was a Country and Western hit and also a Rock and Roll hit

The long version was played on some radio station with controversy because it was longer the most of current hits.



Posted by Bill C. on Friday, 05/18/2018 @ 18:19pm


Paul McCartney's Egypt Station is the number one album on the Billboard 200.

"Paul McCartney achieves his first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart in over 36 years, as his new studio effort, Egypt Station, bows atop the list.

The set, which was released on Sept. 7 via MPL/Capitol Records, launches with a larger-than-expected 153,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Sept. 13 according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 147,000 were in traditional album sales.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units are comprised of traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new Sept. 22-dated chart, where Egypt Station debuts at No. 1, will be posted in full on Billboard's websites on Tuesday, Sept. 18.

Of Egypt Station’s 153,000 units, the majority were powered by traditional album sales: 147,000 copies sold. The remainder was comprised of SEA units (5,000) and TEA units (1,000).

McCartney’s Eighth No. 1 Album: Egypt Station gives McCartney his eighth No. 1 on the Billboard 200. He last led the list for three consecutive weeks in 1982 with Tug of War (on the May 29 through June 12-dated charts). McCartney’s tally of eight leaders includes his albums with Wings, some of which were credited to Paul McCartney & Wings (Red Rose Speedway; Band on the Run). Of course, McCartney is also a member of The Beatles, and they still own the record for the most No. 1s on the Billboard 200 with 19 chart-toppers. The Beatles last led the tally with the greatest hits collection 1, which spent eight nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 in December 2000 through February 2001.

McCartney’s First Debut at No. 1: Egypt Station is Macca’s first album to debut at No. 1. He had previously logged a pair of No. 2-debuting sets with 1997’s Flaming Pie and 2001’s Wingspan: Hits and History. As an aside, The Beatles logged four No. 1 debuts, all with albums in the 1990s and 2000s: Anthology 1 (1995), Anthology 2 (1996) and Anthology 3 (1996) and 1 (2000). (It’s worth noting that before the chart began using Nielsen Music’s electronically-tracked point-of-sale information in May of 1991, only six albums debuted at No. 1.)

McCartney’s Biggest Sales Week in Over a Decade: As Egypt Station starts with 147,000 copies sold, it tallies McCartney his largest sales week for an album in over 10 years. He last posted a larger sales frame when Memory Almost Full debuted at No. 3 with 161,000 copies sold on the chart dated June 23, 2007. Egypt Station’s launch was bolstered by sales from a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer, as well as a number of merchandise/album bundle packages available on McCartney’s official website.

McCartney was in full-on promo mode during the album's release week, though the campaign for the album really started with his Carpool Karaoke episode, which debuted on June 21 during CBS’ The Late Late Show With James Corden. The 23-minute long segment has been viewed more than 32 million times worldwide on YouTube. It was followed by an hourlong CBS special on Aug. 20 titled Carpool Karaoke: When Corden Met McCartney Live From Liverpool, which included previously unreleased footage from their earlier karaoke shoot in June.

Around Egypt Station's release day, McCartney made stops on SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show (Sept. 5), The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (Sept. 6) and WTF With Marc Maron podcast (Sept. 6). He also partnered with YouTube for Live From NYC, a global live stream performance from New York’s Grand Central Station on Sept. 7.

Egypt Station was led by its first single, “Come On to Me,” which became McCartney’s first top 10 on the Adult Alternative Songs airplay chart in over 20 years. The track has so far peaked at No. 6 (Sept. 1-dated chart).

A 36-Year Gap Between No. 1s: Egypt Station’s No. 1 arrival comes 36 years, 3 months and 10 days after Tug of War last led the list (June 12, 1982). That’s the longest gap between No. 1s for a living artist in the history of the Billboard 200 chart. The only act to have a longer wait between chart-toppers was Johnny Cash, who died on Sept. 12, 2003. A little less than three years later, the posthumous release American V: A Hundred Highways bowed at No. 1 on the list dated July 22, 2006 -- 36 years, 10 months and nine days after he was last atop the tally with Johnny Cash at San Quentin on Sept. 13, 1969.

No. 1s Spanning 48 Years: McCartney’s first No. 1 album came with his solo debut set McCartney, which topped the list dated May 23, 1970 and spent three weeks in a row at No. 1 (May 23 through June 6). Egypt Station ups McCartney’s span of No. 1s to 48 years, three months and 16 days. The longest span of No. 1s is owned by Barbra Streisand, with 51 years, nine months and 20 days between People in 1964 and Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway in 2016.

Back on the new Billboard 200 chart, Eminem’s Kamikaze slips to No. 2 in its second chart week, earning 136,000 units (down 69 percent)."

https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/8475341/paul-mccartney-first-no-1-album-in-over-36-years-on-billboard-200-chart

Posted by The Dude on Tuesday, 09/18/2018 @ 13:38pm


RIAA Gold & Platinum Total: The Beatles

209.75 Million

https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&se=The+beatles#search_section

Posted by The Dude on Thursday, 02/21/2019 @ 14:38pm


The Beatles' 'White Album' Is Now The 4th Highest Certified Release In U.S. History

“The Recording Industry Association of America unveiled Thursday that the Beatles’1968 double-album reached 24-time Platinum-certified status – making it the fourth-highest certified release in United States history. The album lands ahead of a three-way tie for fifth place, shared by Billy Joel’s Greatest Hits Volume I & Volume II, Led Zeppelin’s Led Zeppelin IV and Pink Floyd’s The Wall.”

“That doesn’t mean it’s the fourth-highest selling album, though. The RIAA counts one double-album sale as two units. It does, however, add to the Beatles’ reign as top-certified group in association history. With an estimated 183 million certified units, the group holds a healthy lead to Garth Brooks’ second-place 148 million units.”

“The White Album proves the highest-certified album in Beatles history, joining The Beatles 1967-1970 (17x Platinum), The Beatles 1962-1966 (15x Platinum), Abbey Road (12x Platinum,) 1 (11x Platinum) and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (11x Platinum).”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewleimkuehler/2019/02/21/the-beatles-white-album-is-now-the-4th-highest-certified-release-in-u-s-history/#5713eef56c44

Posted by The Dude on Thursday, 02/21/2019 @ 15:34pm


Paul McCartney turns 77 in June.
Ringo Starr turns 79 in July.

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 06/1/2019 @ 19:40pm


OLDEST TO YOUNGEST

THE BEATLES

01. Ringo Starr (July 7, 1940)
02. John Lennon (October 9, 1940)
03. Paul McCartney (June 18, 1942)
04. George Harrison (February 25, 1943)

Posted by Roy on Monday, 06/3/2019 @ 05:29am


THE GRAMMY LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

01. 1986: The Rolling Stones
02. 2001: The Beach Boys
03. 2014: The Beatles
04. 2015: The Bee Gees
05. 2020: Chicago

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 12/29/2019 @ 17:04pm


10 Beatles Hits That 'Rip Off' Other Songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pfJRTU6J1s

Posted by Roy on Friday, 05/14/2021 @ 19:30pm


I think they're a very decent band who helped shape rock music. I think they should be inducted.

Posted by Bryn Adam on Wednesday, 10/27/2021 @ 09:29am


Ummm Bryn,

These guys are inducted not too long after the Hall started doing inductions back in the 80's as well as four members for their solo careers. So that has been solved a long time ago.

Posted by Jordan Einstein on Wednesday, 10/27/2021 @ 10:31am


Hello Jordan.

I know....I was just saying quite rightly so that they were inducted although I didn't phrase it clear.

Posted by Bryn Adam on Thursday, 10/28/2021 @ 11:49am


As long as the legacy of the beatles exists, rock or pop music will continue to dominate current music in youth and in society in genera

Posted by nick on Wednesday, 05/18/2022 @ 18:46pm


Apparently there were more people in the Beatles than we thought. Aside from Stuart Sutcliffe (1940-1962) and Pete Best...

Rest in Peace Chas Newby, bassist for the Beatles for a few gigs, before he decided to go back to University (he became a mathematics teacher) and was repllaced by a "reluctant" Paul McCartney, 1941-2023. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chas_Newby

Posted by Joe S. on Tuesday, 05/23/2023 @ 21:47pm


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