The   Beatles   wrote, played and   recorded so many great critically acclaimed, popular songs and albums of   all different styles of   music and   wrote about   50 or   more   years worth of    mostly great   music in   just   an   8   year   recording   career.




When The   Beatles were playing   live   in 63,64, 65& 66 they had very limited   primitive sound systems at the time,only 100   watt amplifiers,(and George Harrison says in the excellent video series,The Beatles Anthology that special 100 watt amplifiers were made for their August 1965 Shea Stadium concetts,and he said they went up from the only 30 watts before!) no   feedback   monitors   so they couldn't even   hear   themselves   play and sing(yet   they   amazingly managed   to sing   and play in sync and   in   tune with each other anyway!) plus all   of   the   screaming   from   the   crowds.


In   their January 1969   live rooftop   concert they sounded   great, the sound systems had improved some by then ,although still pretty primitive compared to   today's, and   there were no screaming crowds   anymore.


When I   was   a   teenager I   met   3   people who saw   The Beatles in concert,   2   saw them   in   1966   and   1   saw   them   in 1964, they   all   told me   they could see and   hear them and   that   they   were   great.



On   the site   Artist Facts   in   The   Rolling Stones   section   a   guy Steve from   Canada   said he saw The   Beatles in concert   in   1966   and The Rolling Stones in 1996(and the sound systems by then were a million tines better!) and   he   said don't get me wrong,The Stones were great but they were no match for The Beatles and he   said The   Beatles   were   The   *GREATEST*   Band ever!


And   former   Kiss   guitarist   Bob   Kulick   who produced   the   heavy metal   tribute Beatles album,Butchering The Beatles, said   he saw The Beatles at Shea Stadium in   1966 and he said   he   only   heard   them   in bits and pieces but   he   could   hear   parts   of    Baby's In   Black   and   Paperback Writer and   he said they sounded amazing.   He also calls them the *GREATEST*   band   ever.