how did they impact it? I know they are thee BEST SELLING artists ever to have lived. They went threw alot of phases too. like at first they were all clean and mop toped, then came eastern mystisicism, etc... how would you say they influenced american culture??|||The Beatles had a very large impact on american music. Their sound was something completely new to the states. First, albums were not a big seller...it was 45's that sold well. The Beatles didn't concentrate on singles, then back fill the rest of the album with "fillers"...they concentrated on the entire album being filled with something worth listening to. Then there were the videos. Soemthing revolutionary in the techniques that were used to make them...I think it was either Strawberry Fields Forever, or Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band that was the first one...around 1969 maybe? They were the first act to play at a stadium, in an outdoor venue. Until then, concerts were done in theatres...not large affairs. Their sound was new...a mixture of styles that was unique, different.
They ushered in European fashions...Twiggy and the like came into the US shortly after they did.
There are a hundred more ways that they revolutionized the American music scene!|||There was a kind of mutual exchange. The original British pop stars didn't do very well over here. For that reason, Brian Epstein refused to accept the offer to appear on Ed Sullivan until they had a number one on the US charts. This was Please Please me, I think. They arrived in February 1964, and the crowds went nuts. They did two TV appearances, Ringo wrecked someone's speedboat, and they went home.
They toured several times, though the tours were not particularly musical. At Shea stadium and Comiskey Park they played into the PA system so the sound quality wasn't good. The boys have said they couldn't hear what they were playing for all the screaming. They biggest amp up to the time was 100 watts, and it was made specially for them. Needless to say, there were people in the cheap seats who heard almost no music.
The change was becoming evident about 1965. Macca has a memory about the first time they tried marijuana. He said he went running up to Mal Evans and asked for a piece of paper, then he wrote something on it and told him not to lose it. The next morning Evans asked him if he wanted to see it, and he said yeah; it read "there are seven levels".
George said he got interested in Indian music while making Help. There were Indian musicians on the set, and he played around with the sitar for a while, then bought a cheap one. They needed a different sound on the song "Norwegian Wood" and he played a little of that.
Pepper and Magical Mystery Tour (the album Strawberry Fields is on) came out in June and December 1967, respectively. The change in the sound was partly influenced by the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds, which was released before this. Naturally some of it's drugs, and they had been to Rishikesh (with the Maharishi) before this happened. Brian had died the summer before, so the business began swirling around the toilet bowl about this time.
Much of the material you hear covered in the movie Across the Universe is from the album titled "The Beatles" which was entirely White, and came to be called the White Album. A lot of the songs released in the next two years were written at Rishikesh. Dear Prudence was for Mia Farrow's sister, who "wouldn't come out to play", Sexie Sadie was the Maharishi, who had disillusioned everyone but George by making advances to several of the women in the party ("you made a fool of every o-o-one Sexy Sadie, o-oh, what have you done?"), John wrote a song called "the Rishikesh song" which is on the Lennon Anthology., Paul wrote "I Will" (the response in the marriage ceremony, interesting since he wasn't with Linda yet) then.
Well, the clothing, the hair, the music, all influenced American kids, hey, you've got a 53 year old guy talking about them like it was scrambled eggs, I mean Yesterday.
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