The main thing to understand about Beatles influence, IMO, is that they changed the trajectory of countless musicians *who never sounded anything like the Beatles,* at least from a retrospective view, accustomed to discerning amongst flavors of rock.
The main thing to understand about Beatles influence, IMO, is that they changed the trajectory of countless musicians *who never sounded anything like the Beatles,* at least from a retrospective view, accustomed to discerning amongst flavors of rock.
Then in turn, those artists influenced countless more, who after a few years may not have consciously thought of themselves as deriving anything specifically from the Beatles. They didn't necessarily have to have listened to the Beatles.
But all history is iterations and developments along ongoing threads, and for Western (now more-or-less global) rock and pop musics, a *huge* proportion of the threads can be followed back through the Beatles.
Glad to see the answer arrived at is the Beatles.
The main thing to understand about Beatles influence, IMO, is that they changed the trajectory of countless musicians *who never sounded anything like the Beatles,* at least from a retrospective view, accustomed to discerning amongst flavors of rock.
Then in turn, those artists influenced countless more, who after a few years may not have consciously thought of themselves as deriving anything specifically from the Beatles. They didn't necessarily have to have listened to the Beatles.
But all history is iterations and developments along ongoing threads, and for Western (now more-or-less global) rock and pop musics, a *huge* proportion of the threads can be followed back through the Beatles.