The Beatles are the most overrated music group in history. Discuss.
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ReplyDeleteThey were perhaps the first of their kind, riding the wave of their era's erupting expressive individualism's collective corrolaries even as they stirred the underlying waters, achieving a self-sufficiency unheard of before them and providing the bar-lines to a defining era. No wonder they became the icons many wish to clast.
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ReplyDeleteAs someone once supposedly said "Guitar groups are on their way out, Mr Epstein" yet almost 65 five years later they are the band that reportedly have sold the most records in the world. Some estimates suggest EMI have sold over 1 Billion units of their music.
ReplyDeleteThey've had more numbers ones in the USA (20) (plus 16 solo number ones) than anyone else and second most in the UK (19) and twice ( in Hey Jude & Get Back) had songs reach number one in 11 major national record charts on its initial release. They've won an Oscar, 7 Emmys, 15 Ivor Novellos, 11 Grammys, 4 Brits (even though they broke up long before the Brit awards began) as well as being given 4 OBE's by Queen Elizabeth II. Only Elvis Presley (who didn't write most of his songs) has received more platinum records than the Beatles who received 42 (as well as 4 Diamond, 24 Multi-Platinum, and 53 Gold records from the UK and US alone) and that I think answers the question. For not only did the Beatles sing their songs but all four of them turned their hand to writing hit songs not only for themselves but for other artists (the Stones first single was a Beatles song) including a number one in the UK for Billy J Kramer. Now whilst Ringo's writing plaudits maybe modest, the writing success of the other three has been phenomenal both for the Beatles and as solo artists. How many other bands could claim to have songwriters of the quality of Lennon, McCartney & Harrison? Not only that but their music continues to sell long after they broke up (many of their awards have been made only on sales from the mid 1990's onwards almost 25 years after they broke up) and they had a number one album 30 years after they broke up and a number 1 single in the UK only 2 years ago, 60 years after their first number one. They've just about done it all so how anyone could say they are overrated is beyond me?
Whether you like them or not (and its a toss up whether they'd get into my top ten preferred bands or not), they were/are the most popular artists in popular music of all time. End of.
No, they are not. The fact that you'd venture this topic (albeit as clickbait), over a half-century after they stopped, proves that.
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Well, you gotta try. Put up a thread with the Beatles and they will come. They did, but not to talk, though. But hey, if I post a half naked chick that will maybe get y'all to do stuff, but not talking either, I'm afraid.
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