2007-04-10 18:22:40 · 9 answers · asked by otkacena 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
The impact of the Beatles upon popular music cannot be overstated; they revolutionized the music industry and touched the lives of all who heard them in deep and fundamental ways.
http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/the-beatles
They literally stood the world of youth culture on its head, setting the musical agenda for the remainder of the decade. In 1964, The Beatles’ buoyant melodies, playful personalities and mop-topped charisma were just the tonic needed by a nation left reeling by the senseless assassination of its young president, John F. Kennedy, barely two months earlier.
Even adults typically given to scorning rock and roll as worthless “kid’s stuff” were forced to concede that there was substance in their music and quick-witted cleverness in their repartee. Without exaggeration, they transfixed and transformed the world as we knew it, ushering in a demographic shift in which youth culture assertively took over from its stodgy Eisenhower-era forbears.
Oh, and the walrus was Paul.
Cheers!
2007-04-10 18:29:08 · answer #1 · answered by deepseaofblankets 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No the 60's was way more complex than The Beatles. There was a whole other music culture going on. The hippy movement and protest music and bubble gum and ballads. The Beatles snatched up all the teenyboppers and the wave of rock?pop to become known as the British Invasion. They were all only a small part of what the 60's were about. Get a book at your library and read about the 60's and I think it all might surprise you. I'm speaking about the American 60's culture.
2007-04-11 04:47:42 · answer #2 · answered by BoosGrammy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Understanding the music of the 60's is understanding the youth of the 60's. It was a age of rebeliion and change. The Beatles, The Doors, Bob Dylan and the other great musicans at the time echoed the youth's feelsings in musical form.
2007-04-10 18:27:25 · answer #3 · answered by meep meep 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it is not the key to understanding the youth of the 1960s.The Beatles were 4 youths of the sixties,they just got more attention than someone, say,like me.
2007-04-10 18:35:15 · answer #4 · answered by prince 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
WHAT philosophy class or corner drug dealer did you hear THAT from?? WHAT A CROCK! The Beatles don't speak for ME! And 'understanding' the youth of the sixties is a buncha bull! There is a great place in a GREAT BOOK that says... THERE IS NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN!!
All kids need SOMEBODY TO HELPETH THEM! THAT IS WHY THEY WERE GIVEN PARENTS!
What you need to understand is... WHERE THE HELL WERE THEIR PARENTS?? btw, don't bother askin' the Beatles.
2007-04-10 18:28:27 · answer #5 · answered by ravin_lunatic 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You need more then the Beatles to understand the hippy movement. Tv was new, civil rights, war protests and free love. Check out hippy.com or search hippy movement. It's way bigger then the Beatles.
2007-04-10 18:32:43 · answer #6 · answered by Darin H 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they were the 60s
they made the 60's
they were the best thing to ever come from the 60's
they united England with the US, they influenced other british musican to come over.
they were simply the best
2007-04-11 03:56:36 · answer #7 · answered by psinesp1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wake up!!!
Leave the rap behind
2007-04-10 18:27:02 · answer #8 · answered by 4 strings 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i dont know
2007-04-10 18:25:30 · answer #9 · answered by missyxjoanna 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋