Did The Beatles Change The World?

Whether you like them or not, or whether you think their music is overrated, you can not disagree on one simple argument:
The Beatles have changed the world.

In 1960, when a group of four working-class men from Liverpool started a rock band, things were a lot different from what they are now.
Take for example, something as simple as — hair.

The Beatles haircut, also known as the “mop-top”, because of its resemblance to a mop, was a mid-length hairstyle. Because of the big popularity of the Beatles, the haircut was widely imitated worldwide, so much that it led toy companies to begin producing real-hair and plastic “Beatle Wigs.”

In the early Beatlemania years, The Beatles would wear black collarless suits. As you can imagine, these suits became very common for new bands to wear after 1964.

Later, around 1967 (when the infamous Sgt. Pepper’s album came out) they also popularized Indian-influenced fashions such as collarless shirts and sandals.

What about concerts? Long before tickets were sold via Instagram’s business profiles and links, came in a band of four British middle-class men and crushed the first ever entertainment act to stage a large stadium concert.

It was the first concert to be held at a major outdoor stadium, which demonstrated that outdoor concerts on a large scale could be successful and profitable. Set aside the fact that after only two years of performing live, they had to stop, due to security purposes, and poor stadiums sound.

Before The Beatles’ influence, releasing record albums were of secondary consideration to singles in mass marketing. The Beatles began to focus increasingly on the album as an artistic thing, in its own right.

Interestingly enough, The Beatles were widely condemned by conservative elements of society, they were even blamed for a “cultural crisis”.

Israel for instance, refused to let the band perform in 1964, worrying it might cause conflicts among people. Not so surprising, considering Lennon’s narcissistic statement “we are more popular than Jesus”…

Its been 50 years since the band broke up, and The Beatles still remain a revolutionary band.
Even in 2000, when the album “#1”, a compilation album of every British and American Beatles hit was released, it became the fastest-selling album of all time.

So you could say anything you want about the Bealtes, and you could even think they’re overrated.

But, you can not agree they didn’t change the world.

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