# Are the Beatles Overrated?

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**Created:** [September 20, 2021, 11:58pm UTC](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/t/are-the-beatles-overrated/26956 "2021-09-20T23:58:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![BridgeMaven](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/cdc98d/32.png) [@BridgeMaven](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/u/BridgeMaven)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2021, 11:58pm UTC](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/t/are-the-beatles-overrated/26956/1 "2021-09-20T23:58:01Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![Payless](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/user_avatar/discourse.thelastforum.com/payless/32/17422_2.png) [@Payless](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/u/Payless)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2021, 12:12am UTC](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/t/are-the-beatles-overrated/26956/2 "2021-09-21T00:12:08Z")

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The Beatles are the ones that started the “British invasion” when they appeared on the Ed Sullivan show back in 1964.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/jenWdylTtzs?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=PLQWND5qZhbj1E2UL5Gr-Txuw_hpSQPcCi

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**Author:** ![crparrothead](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/user_avatar/discourse.thelastforum.com/crparrothead/32/6648_2.png) [@crparrothead](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/u/crparrothead)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2021, 1:51am UTC](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/t/are-the-beatles-overrated/26956/3 "2021-09-21T01:51:36Z")

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I have a few friends that are HUGE Beetles fans.  
I try to tick them off by asking if they are the band that copied the Monkees.

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**Author:** ![BridgeMaven](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/cdc98d/32.png) [@BridgeMaven](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/u/BridgeMaven)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2021, 3:43am UTC](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/t/are-the-beatles-overrated/26956/4 "2021-09-21T03:43:08Z")

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My favorite groups are The Bee Gees and Simon and Garfunkel.

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**Author:** ![jimtoo](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/user_avatar/discourse.thelastforum.com/jimtoo/32/16415_2.png) [@jimtoo](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/u/jimtoo)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2021, 4:04am UTC](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/t/are-the-beatles-overrated/26956/5 "2021-09-21T04:04:05Z")

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Simply put, the Beatles cannot be overrated because it is them and then everyone else.

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**Author:** ![brobbs](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/user_avatar/discourse.thelastforum.com/brobbs/32/4993_2.png) [@brobbs](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/u/brobbs)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2021, 4:30am UTC](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/t/are-the-beatles-overrated/26956/6 "2021-09-21T04:30:49Z")

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Pop culture obsession driven by national media.

They were ok… Nothing spectacular.

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**Author:** ![BridgeMaven](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/cdc98d/32.png) [@BridgeMaven](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/u/BridgeMaven)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2021, 8:06pm UTC](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/t/are-the-beatles-overrated/26956/7 "2021-09-21T20:06:51Z")

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> [@Payless](#):
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> The Beatles are the ones that started the “British invasion” when they appeared on the Ed Sullivan show back in 1964.

Payless - I am old enough to have seen the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964

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**Author:** ![Payless](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/user_avatar/discourse.thelastforum.com/payless/32/17422_2.png) [@Payless](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/u/Payless)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2021, 8:22pm UTC](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/t/are-the-beatles-overrated/26956/8 "2021-09-21T20:22:08Z")

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> [@BridgeMaven](#):
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> > [@Payless](#):
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> > The Beatles are the ones that started the “British invasion” when they appeared on the Ed Sullivan show back in 1964.
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> Payless - I am old enough to have seen the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964

I used to watch the Ed Sullivan show growing up. Can’t remember if I saw their first appearance on the show.

I liked the Beatles but was not fanatical about it. Did not really care for their solo careers, especially Paul McCartney.

This would be my favorite song from the Beatles.

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/VJDJs9dumZI/maxresdefault.jpg "The Beatles - The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Official Music Video) [Love Version]") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJDJs9dumZI)

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**Author:** ![branchkin](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/user_avatar/discourse.thelastforum.com/branchkin/32/113_2.png) [@branchkin](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/u/branchkin)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2021, 8:26pm UTC](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/t/are-the-beatles-overrated/26956/9 "2021-09-21T20:26:11Z")

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Always more of a Beach Boys fan than Beatles.

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**Author:** ![BridgeMaven](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/cdc98d/32.png) [@BridgeMaven](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/u/BridgeMaven)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2021, 8:27pm UTC](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/t/are-the-beatles-overrated/26956/10 "2021-09-21T20:27:08Z")

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> [@branchkin](#):
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> Always more of a Beach Boys fan than Beatles.

branchkin - I, also, loved the Beach Boys 😀

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**Author:** ![crparrothead](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/user_avatar/discourse.thelastforum.com/crparrothead/32/6648_2.png) [@crparrothead](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/u/crparrothead)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2021, 8:54pm UTC](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/t/are-the-beatles-overrated/26956/11 "2021-09-21T20:54:17Z")

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> [@branchkin](#):
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> Always more of a Beach Boys fan than Beatles.

Speaking my language!!!

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**Author:** ![mcarley](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/user_avatar/discourse.thelastforum.com/mcarley/32/5644_2.png) [@mcarley](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/u/mcarley)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2021, 9:31pm UTC](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/t/are-the-beatles-overrated/26956/12 "2021-09-21T21:31:44Z")

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> [@Payless](#):
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> I used to watch the Ed Sullivan show growing up. Can’t remember if I saw their first appearance on the show.
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> I liked the Beatles but was not fanatical about it. Did not really care for their solo careers, especially Paul McCartney.
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> This would be my favorite song from the Beatles.

Two cool versions of that song.

Here’s Jake Shimabukuro, doing his famous version of it on the ukulele:

[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/0gaWuadgL3g/hqdefault.jpg "Jake Shimabukuro-While My Guitar Gently Weeps") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gaWuadgL3g)

And here are some of the best guitar players in the world doing it, Prince coming in at the end and blowing them all away.

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/6SFNW5F8K9Y/maxresdefault.jpg "Prince, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, & More "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" | Rock Hall 2004 Induction") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFNW5F8K9Y)

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**Author:** ![BridgeMaven](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/cdc98d/32.png) [@BridgeMaven](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/u/BridgeMaven)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2021, 10:44pm UTC](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/t/are-the-beatles-overrated/26956/13 "2021-09-21T22:44:52Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![mcarley](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/user_avatar/discourse.thelastforum.com/mcarley/32/5644_2.png) [@mcarley](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/u/mcarley)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2021, 10:49pm UTC](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/t/are-the-beatles-overrated/26956/14 "2021-09-21T22:49:07Z")

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> [@BridgeMaven](#):
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> 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.

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**Author:** ![sgtFriday](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f05b48/32.png) [@sgtFriday](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/u/sgtFriday)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2021, 10:49pm UTC](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/t/are-the-beatles-overrated/26956/15 "2021-09-21T22:49:29Z")

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Their actual musical talents may not of put them at the very top, but their influence upon just about all popular music that followed is unequaled.

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**Author:** ![crparrothead](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/user_avatar/discourse.thelastforum.com/crparrothead/32/6648_2.png) [@crparrothead](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/u/crparrothead)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2021, 11:19pm UTC](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/t/are-the-beatles-overrated/26956/16 "2021-09-21T23:19:40Z")

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> [@sgtFriday](#):
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> Their actual musical talents may not of put them at the very top, but their influence upon just about all popular music that followed is unequaled.

That is a very valid statement

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**Author:** ![Payless](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/user_avatar/discourse.thelastforum.com/payless/32/17422_2.png) [@Payless](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/u/Payless)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2021, 1:26am UTC](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/t/are-the-beatles-overrated/26956/17 "2021-09-22T01:26:12Z")

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> [@mcarley](#):
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> > [@BridgeMaven](#):
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> > 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.
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> 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.

There was a disco demolition in Chicgo’s Comiskey park that went terribly wrong.

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/fAJfOcnYYEQ/hqdefault.jpg "DISCO DEMOLITION NIGHT AT OLD COMISKEY PARK (1979)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAJfOcnYYEQ)

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**Author:** ![system](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@system](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2021, 1:26am UTC](https://discourse.thelastforum.com/t/are-the-beatles-overrated/26956/18 "2021-09-29T01:26:22Z")

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