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Beatles Greatest
What makes the Beatles the greatest band of all time?

(other than their record sales)

these are the reasons the beatles are one of the greatest bands of all time:

1.their influence on pop culture is still being felt even today;for more on that read this link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles…

2.they changed the way that bands use the recording studio to make music,for more details check out this link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles…

3.one of the 1st groups to treat an album as a work of art in its own right instead of just a collection of singles

4.they unofficially halted the practice of artists making foreign language versions of their hit singles,thus unofficially making english the official language of rock and roll and all its sub-genres.klaus meine of the scorpions said that when they started,that the only way they would really make it big was to record in english.i attribute this to the beatles influence

5.they made it fashionable for men to grow their hair long

6.they pioneered the big world tours as we know them today,i think the beatles were actually the first band to go on a world tour

7.they were the first band to actually express their true feelings on major world issues of the day instead of keeping quiet(as brian epstein wanted them too)

8.they were the ones who brought the music and instrumentation of india to the west(first western rock band to use indian instruments on record)

9.they were the 1st rock group to actually make money from their record sales and have record sales in the millions.let’s put things in perspective,before the beatles record companies used singles and albums to promote the live show of whatever artist it was because the live shows where were the real money was.it wasn’t expected for an artist to actually make any money from their singles or albums.in fact before the beatles you could sell 200,000 copies of your latest record and have a hit(nowadays,you sell that much its considered a flop).at 1 point during i want to hold your hand’s run on the charts,it sold over 1.5 million copies in 5 days,that’s 300,000 copies a day,in 1964 this was unheard of.no artist back then was expected to sell that many copies of anything.in fact the next single can’t buy me love had so many advance orders(over 1.5 million)it actually debuted at number 1 on the singles charts.nowadays,with soundscan and all that acts debuting at number 1 is old news,but in 1964 it was news because no one had ever done it before in america.

10.1st rock group to take a stand against segregation:when a rumor went out that the audiences at a beatles concert at the gator bowl were going to be segregated,the beatles and their manager sent a letter to the venue owners stating if they were going to do that,then they could have their money back and that the beatles weren’t going to do the show.now there were never plans to do that,but it says a lot about the beatles to take that type of a stand.

11.one of the 1st rock groups to start their own record label.

hope this answered your question

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