So much has been said and written about
the Beatles -- and their
story is so mythic in its sweep -- that it's difficult to summarize their career without restating clichés that have already been digested by tens of millions of rock fans.
To start with the obvious, they were the greatest and most influential act of
the rock era, and introduced more
innovations into
popular music than any other rock
band of the 20th
century. Moreover, they were among the few artists of any discipline that were simultaneously the
best at what they did and the most popular at what they did.
Relentlessly imaginative and experimental,
the Beatles grabbed a hold of the
international mass consciousness in 1964 and never let
go for
the next six years, always staying
ahead of the pack in terms of creativity but never losing their
ability to
communicate their increasingly sophisticated
ideas to a mass audience.
Their supremacy as rock icons remains unchallenged to this day,
decades after their breakup in 1970.
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