They are most likely the most influential rock artists. They basically started World Music with rock with George Harrison being the first rock guitarist playing the sitar, tamboura, and Swarmandal. The Beatles where the first band to go away from the 1-4-5 rock and roll chord progression. They were the first rock band to use guitar feedback with a guitar riff driven song "I Feel Fine" basically a modern rock staple. The Beatles recorded their guitars and vocals backward. They have more innovations than Led Zeppelin or the Stones it's not really that close.
The Beatles, particularly McCartney, became heavily influenced by experimental German composer, Karlheinz Stockhausen. Beginning with Tomorrow Never Knows they began experimenting with tape loops, musique-concrète, and effects which were crucial to the development of modern electronica. Due to the Beatles studio explorations every rock band making an album today owes the Beatles a debt of gratitude in what really what their doing between 1965-1968.
The Beatles use of the 12 string guitar were hugely influential also on the Animals, Brian Jones and Pete Townshend purshase the instrument; helped persuade the Byrds, then folksingers, to plunge all out into rock & roll, and the Beatles (along with Bob Dylan) would be hugely influential on the folk-rock explosion of 1965. The Beatles' success, too, had begun to open the U.S. market for fellow Brits like the Rolling Stones, the Animals, and the Kinks, and inspired young American groups like the Beau Brummels, Lovin' Spoonful, and others to mount a challenge of their own with self-penned material that owed a great debt to Lennon-McCartney.
The Beatles, particularly McCartney, became heavily influenced by experimental German composer, Karlheinz Stockhausen. Beginning with Tomorrow Never Knows they began experimenting with tape loops, musique-concrète, and effects which were crucial to the development of modern electronica. Due to the Beatles studio explorations every rock band making an album today owes the Beatles a debt of gratitude in what really what their doing between 1965-1968.
The Beatles use of the 12 string guitar were hugely influential also on the Animals, Brian Jones and Pete Townshend purshase the instrument; helped persuade the Byrds, then folksingers, to plunge all out into rock & roll, and the Beatles (along with Bob Dylan) would be hugely influential on the folk-rock explosion of 1965. The Beatles' success, too, had begun to open the U.S. market for fellow Brits like the Rolling Stones, the Animals, and the Kinks, and inspired young American groups like the Beau Brummels, Lovin' Spoonful, and others to mount a challenge of their own with self-penned material that owed a great debt to Lennon-McCartney.
