There are a lot of other Beatles fans here. What we are trying to do, is to put their achievement (or lack of it) into perspective.
I am with Lonesome EJ on this one. While Frank is right in saying that The Beatles made children's and teenager music, it is fair enough to point out that they made lots of other music too. John Lennon said he would not be singing "She Loves You" when he was thirty - and he was as god as his word. Within three years, songs like "We Can Work It Out", "Eleanor Rigby" and "Yesterday" had emerged. Even though "If I Fell" is a pop tune, it is melodically and harmonically complex and seamlessly constructed. These were not silly children making lightweight pop music like The Honeybus, or The Tremeloes or bands of that ilk.
I think Soldier Boy's post reminded us of what was so extraordinary about the band. They were musically extremely ambitious. Nobody else had fully grasped the potential of recorded music as opposed to live music. Nobody successfully challenged the boundaries of what recorded music could achieve further or faster than Beatles.
Louis Armstrong was indeed a giant, but he was playing a whole different ball game to The Beatles - and I am sure he knew it.