I read an article recently that said the Beatles are overrated? What do you think.
In my opinion, the Beatles had some excellent innovative ideas such as their Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band album which addresses many different kinds of loneliness. I, also, like many of their songs. However, I can think of a number of other musical groups that are just as good as the Beatles and a few that I consider to be even better.
What impressed me about the Bee Gees is that even though the band was formed in 1958 and they wrote and performed rock and roll songs during the sixties, they were talented enough to adapt to Disco during the late seventies by writing and performing the songs for the movie Saturday Night Fever. In addition, most of the Bee Gee’s songs are thought provoking, as well as entertaining.
There was a big anti-disco wave in the early 80s, with some radio stations using it as a marketing ploy, “Bee Gee free weekends” and such. But songs that didn’t have their names on them, but were still their songs (like “Islands In the Stream”) were still very popular.