With their furious blend of instantly memorable and catchy songs, dry wit, and youthful charm, they reached the kids that Elvis couldn’t and turned the cultural phenomena that began with Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Elvis Presley into a global movement.īy nineteen sixty-five, it was hard to argue with John Lennon’s throwaway quip that The Beatles were more famous than Jesus. While it’s an undisputed, with more than a billion record sales to his name almost certainly inarguable, fact that Elvis will always be the King of Rock and Roll, the band who were solely responsible for transforming the sixties and causing generations of teenagers to fall hopelessly in love with rock and roll, was The Beatles. Rock and roll might have given them the means to alter the mainstream perception of fame, but Elvis and The Beatles had that indefinable “wow factor” that enabled them to seize their chosen musical baton and carry it to every corner of the globe.
WHAT. WAS. NUMBER. ONE. SONG. IN. NINTEEN. SIXTYFOUR DRIVER
He couldn’t have imagined that in less than a century and a half, a truck driver from Tupelo and four shaggy-haired young men from Liverpool would change the idea of glory, and what it means to be famous, forever. When Napoleon Bonaparte suggested that glory was fleeting, but obscurity is forever, he obviously didn’t forsee the impact The Beatles songs would have on the music industry, and the wider world.
If we’d known we were going to be The Beatles, we’d have tried harder – George Harrison
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