the imortance and influence of the beatles in todays music

Running Head : MUSICAL IMPACT

Musical Impact : Considering the Beatles

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The emergence of rock and roll and rhythm and blues happened in America the nineteen forties and fifties , creating the cradle into which the Beatles would be born . The young band of British teenagers who got their start playing in a seedy club in the red light district of Hamburg , Germany , pumping out tune after tune based on American rock and R B influences for rowdy crowds six or seven hours per night , almost every night , would eventually turn

out to be one of the most , if not the most , influential music bands of modern time , the Beatles . Over the course of only a couple years , the band turned into a small European favorite into the global musical explosion evoking Beatlemania across the continents . With their unique style , youthful energy , and amazing musical genius , this group of young men was able to take music heritage and transform it into something new and unique , rich with meaning and soul

Ever since the worldwide breakthrough of the Beatles in the early sixties , the planet has not been the same , capturing the hearts and imaginations of people everywhere . The impact of the Beatles upon society transcends the musical sphere and pervades all areas of global popular culture . Schinder and Schwartz (2008 ) described the band as a group of cheerful , wisecracking moptops ' whose initial musical style was a highly original , irresistibly catchy synthesis of early American rock and roll and R B , evolving...