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In Reply to: RE: How important are the Beatles? posted by Tadlo on March 17, 2016 at 08:34:14
...not long ago a radio station played "The Beatles A to Z" all day - all of their music in alphabetical order.
It was incredible to listen to the breadth and depth of their music played somewhat randomly.
Lennon and McCartney are arguably the greatest songwriters of all time.
George Martin, who passed away last week, was classical music producer before he discovered the Beatles and worked with them.
And perhaps more importantly for us Baby Boomers, their music is the soundtrack of our youth.
Follow Ups:
What are you smoking, man? Amongst their contemporaries is one Bob
Dylan. Perhaps you have heard of George (and Ira) Gershwin? Perhaps
you have heard of Johnny Mercer (lyricist only)? Or even perhaps one
Cole Porter? Maybe you haven't heard of these people. With a lifetime
of practice, Lennon and McCartney cannot even begin to approach the high
quality of output of Messrs. Gershwin, Mercer,and Porter.
We can give Lennon & McCartney as influential individuals in pop music.
But to suggest they are all time greats is ... mindboggling.
They did borrow tunes from other songwriters and composers, I am not much into rock music, but Beatles did use the main tune from Rachmaninov Second Symphony, the slow movement, of course without giving credit to the composer.
Vahe
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