Dear GUEST,The Beatles Were The Greatest Rock Band Ever

Your enthusiasm for the Beatles obviously has no bounds and I also recall being knocked out by them in 1963 when I heard their first singles. I too have some of their albums and acknowledge their impact on pop music at the time.

However, pop music has always gone in waves. Part of the huge impact of Elvis Presley in the mid-50s was the sheer difference of what he was doing vis-a-vis the popular stuff of the period. When the 1950s-style rock'n roll began to become samey and predictable - whizz! - along came the Beatles with a different take and style. Later on came waves of other music which redefined music for their respective generations - heavy metal, glam rock, punk...

Before losing my heart and brain over what was undoubtedly a great pop group, I like to think that many of the great chord sequences were first penned by Bach, that Chuck Berry wrote some of the greatest lyrics in pop history (try the words to "Nadine", for example), and that popular song composers from the 1920s-1940s were writing some beautiful and intricate songs with chord progressions to die for. The Beatles take their rightful place among these - and would acknowledge their debt to many of them.