{"id":26791,"date":"2025-04-02T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T16:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/?p=26791"},"modified":"2025-03-27T12:48:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T19:48:02","slug":"dropping-the-needle-the-beatles-changed-music-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2025\/04\/02\/dropping-the-needle-the-beatles-changed-music-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"Dropping the Needle<\/em>: The Beatles changed music forever"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an industry as opinion-based as music, it\u2019s hard for people to agree on anything. However, many do agree on this: The Beatles are the greatest band ever. But why? What makes these guys from Liverpool stand above everyone else? The answer is influence<\/i>. The Beatles didn\u2019t just dominate music in the 1960s and early 1970s\u2014they reinvented it.<\/p>\n

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Dropping the Needle<\/em> is a column appearing in every issue of Nexus<\/em> (photo by Santiago Vazquez-Fuertes\/Nexus<\/em>).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 1963, The Beatles came out with their debut album Please Please Me<\/i>. It had a very classic \u201860s rock sound to it, heavily inspired by Chuck Berry. The album became extremely popular in the UK, and a year later the band appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show, and with this, Beatlemania was well on its way.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In two years, the band released four more albums with many popular songs like \u201cHelp!,\u201d \u201cA Hard Day\u2019s Night,\u201d \u201cCan\u2019t Buy Me Love,\u201d and many more. But in their album Help!<\/i>, although similar to the last ones, they brought a more mature sound, hinting at the possibility of moving on from their \u201ccatchy love songs\u201d gimmick.<\/p>\n

And boy did they ever. The Beatles released Rubber Soul<\/i>, with a folk-induced sound inspired by Bob Dylan. The Beatles never looked back from there, releasing Revolver<\/i>, Sgt. Pepper\u2019s Lonely Hearts Club Band<\/i>, The Beatles<\/i> (White Album), and Abbey Road<\/i>, five of the best albums in history, one after another. This level of creativity and productivity remains unmatched. In three years, The Beatles went from singing \u201cI Want to Hold Your Hand\u201d to having guitar solos loop backwards in Revolver<\/i>, showing a level of experimentation and evolution that most artists never achieve in decades.<\/p>\n

Beyond this, The Beatles changed the way we experience albums. They popularized the concept album with Sgt. Pepper<\/i>, showing the world that an album can be more than just a compilation of songs. They revolutionized cover art, too. And they made performer-written songs expected of others. They played just about every kind of genre, and their influence is unmatched, influencing bands like Queen, Pink Floyd, Nirvana, Oasis, and even current artists like Billie Eilish.<\/p>\n

What The Beatles achieved in seven years could only be possible due to the band having three lyrical geniuses in Paul, John, and George. Ringo, who is often overlooked, is one of the greatest drummers of all time; he wasn\u2019t flashy, but always knew exactly what the song required. And unlike any other artist or band that slowly fades away until their music is no longer good enough, The Beatles made arguably the greatest album of all time in Abbey Road<\/i> and called it quits.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Beatles were not a regular band\u2014they were music\u2019s revolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an industry as opinion-based as music, it\u2019s hard for people to agree on anything. However, many do agree on this: The Beatles are the greatest band ever. But why? What makes these guys from Liverpool stand above everyone else? The answer is influence. The Beatles didn\u2019t just dominate music in the 1960s and early […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26285,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,331],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-april-2-2025-issue"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26792,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26791\/revisions\/26792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}