Sunday, October 12, 2014

Oct 5 - Charlie Payne

So much has been said about the Beatles that I'm already starting to regret choosing this particular event to write about this week. Sure, we all know the Beatles are "the greatest rock band of all time," and wrote nine out of the "top ten greatest songs ever recorded" and have their faces on the cover of three of the "five best albums of all time," but unfortunately the sanctity with which many music fans hold the Beatles can take away from less interested people the true importance of the Beatles and their music.
The Beatles released their first ever single, "Love Me Do," in the UK on October fifth, 1962. Despite the song's and band's poppy innocence, because of them, nothing would ever be the same. From this point on, especially for the generation hearing this music during their tween years, it would no longer be satisfactory to continue the traditions of their parents. The Beatles progressed from then into the band that we all know, "Ticket to Ride" and "Hard Day's Night," and the band that even Kesey and his pranksters listened to. I'll spare you a spiel about Beatlemania (boring), but basically they got real famous real fast. They started getting high often and writing songs about death and tripping, then they went to India and got screwed by the author of arguably the most famous transcendental meditation literature in the West, and then they stopped being friends and eventually stopped playing music in 1970. They were together for less than a decade, but their legacy continues to survive.
Without the advent of the Beatles, there's no telling where music would be nowadays. Solid arguments can be made to show how the Beatles, in one way or another, planted the seeds of almost every fathomable style of music, and certainly offshoot of rock and roll. But even the Beatles had to start somewhere.

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