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Originally Posted by Rochard
I don't think the The Beatles were all that. I think they were a lot of hype and in the right place at the right time - then had the right marketing.
I have a fourteen year old daughter and I see how crazy they get. I mean, she has a bad day because her favorite singer got a haircut she doesn't like.
If you look at their early history, the Beatles were more "edgy" and hardcore, especially in their German days. They were punk rockers and into all kinds of drugs. They gained a small following there,in the UK... But they had to clean their image up to take it the next level.
What made them big was hype and marketing.
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I hate to admit this, but I remember when the Beatles hit in the UK. I was a young kid, but a huge music fan, and had nagged my parents into buying me a piano when I was 5. In my memory, there was before the Beatles and after the Beatles, and after nothing was ever the same. Their music was so fresh and energetic and original that it took the country by storm, and Beatlemania was bewildering because the phenomenon erupted seemingly out of nowhere. Hype and marketing alone didn't make them big--they were the real thing, hence many people in this thread agreeing that they were in a category of their own.
BTW, the Stones (and Zeppelin) were both, at heart, blues bands. To me the Stones play American music while The Who sound more English because they play a non-blues based rock (and I think were the first to do so). Zeppelin is kind of an amalgamation of the Stones and The Who, IMHO.