Why did "Beatles" become so popular?
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They were so desperately needed at the time.  I was very young the first time I saw them on the Ed Sullivan show.  They were rebels-long hair and rock & roll.  They were overwhelming-they blasted the USA and we loved 'em for everything they were and everything they were going to be.  Even when they dived into the drug world they still had very real and very serious things to say that no one else would.  They were and remain the best without peers.
468244
To me, the Beatles are the Best Band of all time and always will be.  At first these guys did put out new Albums and then go on tours but this did stop.  After that, they did put out a new album every year and straight to the top of the Charts to #1 it would go.  They sold all their records without doing any tours. People could not go to see them but they did love to wait every year to have a new Album come out and run to buy it and hear the Beatles again.  Not many bands ever got away with this but the Beatles sure did and did not stop until they broke up and then each Beatle put out his own Album that would go straigt up the Chart. Only two Beatles did stop and they had not choice but their music is still loved world wide!!  It always will be. To me they put out so many good songs, it is hard to really chose which one I like the best!
435878
I think he would still be pretty popular even if he wasn't with the beatles. So many people loved his music when he wasn't with them, so why wouldn't they like it if he never was with them!?!?!?
478552
it was "surfin" in 1961\n\nBeginning their career as the most popular surf band in the nation, the Beach Boys finally emerged by 1966 as America's pre-eminent pop group, the only act able to challenge (for a brief time) the overarching success of the Beatles with both mainstream listeners and the critical community. From their 1961 debut with the regional hit "Surfin,"
13478
The BEATLES  \n   If the Beatle didn't break the barrier, no one else would have.   The Stones are a great band and I love thier music but I think the beatles for the short time they were together were more prolific, and alway growing and changing.  Everyone copied what they were going through.   A good example of this is out there in a picture of Paul McCartney conducting an orchestra with Mick Jagger sitting at his feet and watching.
101752
I love the beatles they are the most influencial bands of the past hundred years.  Yes I  live in a yellow submarine in the land of submarines.
193412
Try this link:\n\n(EDIT: The second link has some comparisons between other artists' lyrics and Beatles lyrics. I was also trying to see if George Harrison's "When We Was Fab" was about them, but the lyrics didn't really hint at the Beatles as much as the times, I guess.)
1041867
He started his career playing with Little Richard and Ray Charles...met the Beatles in Hamburg in '62...played on some Beatles songs including GET BACK, DON'T LET ME DOWN, SOMETHING, I WANT YOU, etc...toured with George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton and appeared on many of their albums, made 2 albums on the Beatles Apple label...played piano on John Lennon's song "God"...recorded with Bob Dylan and Aretha Franklin...even co-wrote a song with George Harrison called "SING ONE FOR THE LORD"...appeared at "The Concert For Bangla-Desh" and "The Concert For George"...and he had som big hits on his own....great piano player....will definitely be missed....
165590
Because musical taste changes, which is a good and bad thing, if we had the same music from 60 years and nothing changed, it would get pretty damn boring!\nThe bad side is that we get "artists" like Britney Spears, Nsync etc who are a change from the artists before them, but we could of done without that change. ;)\n\nAnyways to answer your question, it's still pretty popular, but no where as popular as before.  I have a feeling that The Blues will stay with us for a while, whether we like it or not.
329273
Usually it's because if everybody likes a certain band and they become popular, the band's old fans die out. It's because people talk about them too much and think they know everything about them when they really dont.
149276
Yes. They really didn't get into the LSD era until "Revolver" in 1965. Best Beatles album ever! Well, except for "Abbey Road".
890292
Absolutely the beatles have such an amazing library of music.So many artists have done covers of their songs as well.I totally agree with your second statement.
1097068
Hell yeah. I'm sixteen and the Beatles are my favorite band. I got into them when I was thirteen and they've been my favorite ever since, even with the additions of such bands into my lore as U2, AC/DC, and Led Zeppelin.\n\nBeatles are at the top and the always will be.
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Hello?!!! Check these numbers out and you can decide for yourself:\n\nWorldwide charts\nBritain\n\nMost no. 1 albums in the British albums charts (15 no. 1s). \nGroup with most no. 1 hits in the British singles chart (17 no. 1 hits). \nGroup with most weeks in the British singles chart (456 weeks). \nGroup with most weeks at no. 1 in the British singles chart (69 weeks). \nGroup with most top 10 hits in the British singles chart (28 top 10 hits). \nMost weeks at no. 1 in the British albums chart (174 weeks at no. 1). \nMost consecutive weeks spent at no. 1 in the UK albums chart (51 weeks from May 11, 1963 to May 2, 1964 – this excludes soundtrack albums). \nMost consecutive no. 1 hits in the British singles chart (11 consecutive no. 1 hits, excludes re-issues of old singles). \nMost consecutive top 5 hits in the British singles chart (22 consecutive top 5 hits from 1963 to 1970). \nGroup with most consecutive top 10 hits in the British singles chart (23 consecutive top 10 hits). \nMost complete ever domination of the British charts by occupying the first two positions in the singles chart and the albums chart as well as the top 3 positions in the EP chart (Extended Play) from December 12 to December 26, 1963. \nMost weeks at no. 1 in the British albums chart within a calendar year (40 weeks at no. 1, 1964). \nMost no. 1 albums in the British albums chart within a calendar year (3 no. 1 albums, 1965). \nMost simultaneous weeks at no. 1 in the British singles and albums chart (45 weeks). \nFirst act to replace itself at the no. 1 position in the British singles charts (December 12, 1963). \nFirst act to replace itself at the no. 1 position in the British albums chart (December 7, 1963). \nThe Beatles’ Please Please Me album spent more weeks at no. 1 in the British album charts than any other album by a group (30 weeks at no. 1, this excludes albums by duos and soundtracks). \nMost debuts at no. 1 in the British albums chart (8 no. 1 debuts, record shared with David Bowie) \nGroup with the most consecutive weeks inside the British singles chart (105 consecutive weeks, from October 11, 1962 to October 15, 1964). \nGroup with most single hits charted in the British singles chart simultaneously (6 hits on April 17, 1976). \nBiggest ever jump within the British albums chart (94 positions jumped by Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band from no. 97 to no. 3 in 1987). \nMost consecutive weeks inside the top 10 of the British albums chart (171 consecutive weeks from 1963 to 1966). \n\nAmerica\n\nMost no. 1 singles in the Billboard Hot 100 charts (20 no.1s). \nMost no. 1 albums in the Billboard Top 200 albums charts (19 no.1 albums). \nMost weeks at no. 1 in the Billboard albums chart (132 weeks at no. 1). \nGroup with most weeks in the Billboard albums chart (2,184 weeks, second only to Frank Sinatra with 2,211 weeks). \nGroup with most weeks in the Billboard Hot 100 chart (609 weeks). \nGroup with most weeks at no. 1 in the Billboard Hot 100 chart (59 weeks at no. 1). \nMost songs inside the Billboard Hot 100 at the same time (14 songs on April 11, 1964). \nMost songs inside the Billboard Top 40 at the same time (7 songs on April 11 and 25, 1964). \nMost songs in the Billboard Top 10 at the same time (5 songs on April 4, 1964). \nMost songs in the Billboard Top 5 at the same time (5 songs on April 4, 1964). \nMost chart entries in the Billboard Hot 100 within a calendar year (30 charted songs in 1964) \nThe only group to replace themselves at no. 1 in the Billboard Hot 100 twice (March 21 and April 4, 1964). It would be forty years later when Usher would tie the record. \nMost complete ever domination of the Billboard Hot 100 singles and albums chart by occupying the first 5 positions in the Hot 100 as well as the first two in the albums chart simultaneously (April 4, 1964). \nMost consecutive no. 1 albums in the Billboard albums chart (8 consecutive no. 1 albums from 1965 to 1968). \nMost consecutive top 5 albums in the Billboar
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the beatles.\nthey paved the way for self-contained artists, they brought the bass guitar up front and popularized the electric bass, they popularized the guitarist/ lead vocalist position, they brought a huge fan base to pop music, and revolutionized the industry.
794173
Well, you have the answer from the Beatles fans. Being the Cirque du Soleil fan, I'll confirm that.
635722
Definitely the Beatles. When they first came from England, they were nothing more than a boy band of their time. No difference between them and the Backstreet Boys. The Beatles get credit for helping build rock music in the US, when they really founded pop music.