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Eric the Half a Bee
I doubt even 90% of people in the UK would know them all. Around 15% of the population is aged under 20, around 16m people. If everybody aged 20 and over knew their names, around 60% of all youngsters under the age of 20 would need to know their names as well. If you include everyone aged between 11 and 20 as knowing who all the Beatles are, 20% of under 10s would also need to know.
Even less now as TBG has confused the issue.
https://youtu.be/Cy88Sxxce_4
If you can stand it long enough, "he's a singer not a dancer" :hehe:
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life on mars
Leave our stato alone, he's a god
I think you must be dyslexic...he's a dog !
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SLUDGE FACTORY
I love heavy music , some of the beatles stuff is rocky as feck
Don't like early beatles , its teeny bop stuff but when they hit their stride they were staggering
The bass and stabbing riffs on taxman were immense and still sound fresh today
I agree completely. Plus for me, as someone who spent over a decade in a a musician, they were a major factor in me picking up a guitar and starting to sing. Their songs were varied, had a breadth of style and difficulty for for me to keep dipping into their catalogue.
Even if you're not a fan of theirs you can't dispute the massive impact they had and still do. And lets not forget they were only together for 7 or 8 years!
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life on mars
Leave our stato alone, he's a god
Odd is the word I think you were after!
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Jimmy the Jock
Racist reported...............
I was waiting for that :-)
I have had so many Oriental students and adults stay with me over the years and many of them have the problem with the 'l' and 'r' sounds. One Japanese lady told me that she goes to the temple every year and craps. For my part, I've been speaking German for 45 years and I still can't do the 'r' properly!
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Taunton Blue Genie
I was waiting for that :-)
I have had so many Oriental students and adults stay with me over the years and many of them have the problem with the 'l' and 'r' sounds. One Japanese lady told me that she goes to the temple every year and craps. For my part, I've been speaking German for 45 years and I still can't do the 'r' properly!
Can be a tad embarassing if you have problems with your rs.
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I don't like the Beatles as I dont like either Lennon or Mcartneys voice at all. I find them nasally and annoying. But as a few have said, their legacy is unsurpassed.
However, whenever someone does a good cover of a Beatles track I usually like it. Perhaps that's testament to how good they were as songwriters.
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goats
Most bands have a few good albums in them at best, often launch with the best one. The Beatles albums seemed to get better the longer they went on which is quite unusual. Revolver, abbey rd, let it be....timeless from a very talented group of musicians.
Never been particularly enamoured with the Beatles, but really the success of their records was largely down to the skills of their producer, arranger, composer, conductor and audio engineer George Martin. I guess pretty much anyone could have a hit or two with him pulling the strings.
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ryder bluebird
Never been particularly enamoured with the Beatles, but really the success of their records was largely down to the skills of their producer, arranger, composer, conductor and audio engineer George Martin. I guess pretty much anyone could have a hit or two with him pulling the strings.
Anyone? Really?
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ryder bluebird
Never been particularly enamoured with the Beatles, but really the success of their records was largely down to the skills of their producer, arranger, composer, conductor and audio engineer George Martin. I guess pretty much anyone could have a hit or two with him pulling the strings.
Oh please !! To dismiss the songwriting and creative skills of Lennon & McCartney in particular is quite ridiculous. Nobody has ever underestimated the importance of George Martin's input, which was enormous, but without the raw material to work with, there would not have been any hit records.
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ryder bluebird
Never been particularly enamoured with the Beatles, but really the success of their records was largely down to the skills of their producer, arranger, composer, conductor and audio engineer George Martin. I guess pretty much anyone could have a hit or two with him pulling the strings.
Bit like Stock Aitken and Waterman in the 80s?
I love the Beatles and I retrospectively discovered them I was only very young when they were out.
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Taunton Blue Genie
John Rennon
Paur McCartney
Lingo Starr
George Hallison
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Jimmy the Jock
Racist reported...............
Lacist, shirley?
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ryder bluebird
Never been particularly enamoured with the Beatles, but really the success of their records was largely down to the skills of their producer, arranger, composer, conductor and audio engineer George Martin. I guess pretty much anyone could have a hit or two with him pulling the strings.
Martin was very important but he was the producer. He wasn't the arranger, nor composer, although he did write some of the piano pieces in songs like "In My Life" and "Eleanor Rigby". But, even Martin himself acknowledged it was Lennon and McCartney who approached him about bringing a classical element.
They certainly learnt a lot from him, but let's not overblow his influence.
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Allez Allez Allez
Martin was very important but he was the producer. He wasn't the arranger, nor composer, although he did write some of the piano pieces in songs like "In My Life" and "Eleanor Rigby". But, even Martin himself acknowledged it was Lennon and McCartney who approached him about bringing a classical element.
They certainly learnt a lot from him, but let's not overblow his influence.
They were helped that Martin had quite an open mind as to what was possible. It worked as an excellent team.
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The difficulty nowadays is to try and imagine hearing the music when it was first released to appreciate how innovative some of it was !
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billy.ronson
The difficulty nowadays is to try and imagine hearing the music when it was first released to appreciate how innovative some of it was !
I was in a music lesson in 1990. We asked our music teacher what he liked. He said The Beatles. We poked fun of him for that lesson and the next doing the "oooohs" and shaking our heads. Third lesson, he walked in with Sergeant Pepper. That was the awakening for me. Up to then it was bands like Queen that my mates liked, after that I realised Queen were utter crap and totally pretentious. It turned me on to Bowie, Hendrix, Pet Sounds.
He finished the lesson with "And that's not even their best album". He was right. He won a few of us around that day and that was some 20 years after Pepper was released. I hadn't heard it before, but it didn't sound anything like what I was expecting, and it didn't sound much like anything I had heard up to then.
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Allez Allez Allez
I was in a music lesson in 1990. We asked our music teacher what he liked. He said The Beatles. We poked fun of him for that lesson and the next doing the "oooohs" and shaking our heads. Third lesson, he walked in with Sergeant Pepper. That was the awakening for me. Up to then it was bands like Queen that my mates liked, after that I realised Queen were utter crap and totally pretentious. It turned me on to Bowie, Hendrix, Pet Sounds.
He finished the lesson with "And that's not even their best album". He was right. He won a few of us around that day and that was some 20 years after Pepper was released. I hadn't heard it before, but it didn't sound anything like what I was expecting, and it didn't sound much like anything I had heard up to then.
On a similar timescale, that would be like a teacher now doing something similar about Oasis.
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Allez Allez Allez
I was in a music lesson in 1990. We asked our music teacher what he liked. He said The Beatles. We poked fun of him for that lesson and the next doing the "oooohs" and shaking our heads. Third lesson, he walked in with Sergeant Pepper. That was the awakening for me. Up to then it was bands like Queen that my mates liked, after that I realised Queen were utter crap and totally pretentious. It turned me on to Bowie, Hendrix, Pet Sounds.
He finished the lesson with "And that's not even their best album". He was right. He won a few of us around that day and that was some 20 years after Pepper was released. I hadn't heard it before, but it didn't sound anything like what I was expecting, and it didn't sound much like anything I had heard up to then.
Queen = panto
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ryder bluebird
Never been particularly enamoured with the Beatles, but really the success of their records was largely down to the skills of their producer, arranger, composer, conductor and audio engineer George Martin. I guess pretty much anyone could have a hit or two with him pulling the strings.
I think George Martin would disagree.
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lardy
On a similar timescale, that would be like a teacher now doing something similar about Oasis.
That would be one stupid teacher
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StraightOuttaCanton
That would be one stupid teacher
Fair dos.
Ok, Kula Shaker.
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ryder bluebird
Never been particularly enamoured with the Beatles, but really the success of their records was largely down to the skills of their producer, arranger, composer, conductor and audio engineer George Martin. I guess pretty much anyone could have a hit or two with him pulling the strings.
Having worked with the likes of Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan and Michael Bentine, George Martin was hardly a nobody in the music world before he teamed up with the Beatles, but his reputation, such as it was, was in comedy and novelty records pre Beatles. Four months before Love Me Do was released in 1962, Martin was involved in the production of Right Said Fred by Bernard Cribbins - if the Beatles needed George Martin, it’s probably true to say he needed them more.
