"Contemporary artists never spoke highly of the Beatles..."

>"The blending of Folk and Rock was something that was inspired by The Beatles when I was working for Bobby Darin in New York. I was in the Brill Building in 1963 and I heard The Beatles and it inspired a combination of Folk and Rock and I went down to Greenwich Village and I started playing traditional songs with a Beatle beat and gradually when I went out to the West Coast Gene Clark came along and David Crosby and we formed The Byrds around that sound."
- Roger McGuinn (The Byrds)

>“When they made Sgt. Pepper in 67, we were in the same studio making our first record, and I remember when it came out and listening to the whole thing and just sitting there with my mouth hanging open going “Wow this is so complete and accomplished" but it was also more than that. It had a ton of ideas and a ton narrative in it, and I feel more than any other record it was the record that gave me, and my generation permission to branch out and do whatever we wanted. If they can do it, we can do it. It changed everything.”
- Roger Waters (Pink Floyd)

>"I think "Eleanor Rigby" was a very important musical move forward. It certainly inspired me to write and listen to things in that vein"
-Pete Townshend (The Who)

>any of those names
>Contemporary
Lmao

>"The Beatles were perfect for opening doors... When they went to America they made it wide open for us. We could never have gone there without them. They're so fucking good at what they did."
- Keith Richards (The Rolling Stones)

>"They were a driving force in the Velvets, and made us work harder and got us on our bikes. Rubber Soul was where you were forced to deal with them as something other than a flash in the pan. It was rich in ideas and I loved the way George managed to find a way to include all those Indian instruments. Lou and I had tried to work with the sarinda. We were only playing it just to get a noise but I realized you could play melody on the sitar as good as Norwegian Wood. Norwegian Wood had this atmosphere of being very acid. I don’t think anybody has ever got that sound or that feeling as well as the Beatles."
- John Cale (Velvet Underground)

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>contemporary

>>74394238
Most of those were the Beatles contemporaries you retard.

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>>74394238
Literally every single one of those artists were their contemporaries.

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>>74395438
Nice bait

>"I don't think people realize how sad it is that the Beatles broke up. That means there's not going to be any more Beatles music.... We were hearing this bootleg tape of the original Get Back album before Spector, and it's really fabulous."
- Lou Reed (Velvet Underground)

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Wtf? I thought he hated the Beatles? Or am I mixing him up with Zappa?

>>74399167
I mean, it's Lou Reed, I'm sure he went back and forth on everything.

And I doubt Zappa "hated" The Beatles. I think he just critiqued the inherent commercialism around a band as big as that. I've never seen him say anything too bad about the music itself, though I may be wrong.

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Actually just came across this.

>"I didn't hate them. I actually like two or three of their songs. I just thought they were ridiculous. What was so disgusting was the way they were consumed and merchandised. No music has succeeded in America unless it was accompanied by something to wear, something to dance or a hairdo. A phenomenon is not going to occur unless you can dress up to it."

>>74394238
ah yes mmm no words of praise from LaMont Young? into the bin it goes

yes, Scaruffi is retarded, we all know that already