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How important are the Beatles?

Posted by Tadlo (A) on March 17, 2016 at 08:34:14

I was a freshman in high school when the Beatles first appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show and I responded in the typical way for people of my generation. I was a fan of all the British invaders, but the Beatles were always my favorite. As an adult I mostly stopped listening to rock in favor of classical music. I am no longer a Beatlemanic, but will always have a place in my heart for the music of the Beatles. A few days ago I happened on a Howard Goodall program about the music of Beatles which gave an interesting musicological analysis and surprisingly favorable assessment of the greatness and importance of the music--both for the sake of popular music and classical music. Goodall himself is a classical composer and he gives the Beatles a lot of credit for rescuing classical music from the low period of atonalism in the 50's and 50's. So here is that program. I am interested in what the musical experts here think of this assessment. My apologies if this is old news for everybody else, but I found it very interesting. It also encouraged me to think I wasn't a complete idiot for being so taken by this music in my youth.

• Goodall on the Beatles   (Open in New Window)

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