1967-1970 (Blue) Remastered (1973)

No other band has had quite the same impact as the four lads from Liverpool. Over the course of eight years and more than a dozen albums, the Beatles changed popular music and culture forever, spearheading the 1960s British Invasion and shaping rock & roll along the way. Along with their amazing musical output and unprecedented worldwide celebrity, John, Paul, George, and Ringo were responsible for many pop music revolutions, major and minor--writing their own material, pushing the limits of the studio, making films of their music, printing song lyrics on albums--that today are taken for granted. Although the Beatles disbanded in 1970, their artistic legacy is permanently ingrained in the entire world's musical vocabulary.

Artist Influences
Arthur Alexander | Bill Haley | Bob Dylan | Buck Owens | Buddy Holly | Carl Perkins (Rockabilly) | Chuck Berry | Eddie Cochran | Elvis Presley | Fats Domino | Gene Vincent | Jerry Lee Lewis | Johnny Kidd & the Pirates | Larry Williams (Piano/Singer) | Little Richard | Little Willie John | Lonnie Donegan | Phil Spector | Ravi Shankar | Roy Orbison | Smokey Robinson | The Everly Brothers | The Isley Brothers | The Marvelettes | The Shadows | The Shirelles | The Supremes

Artist Contemporaries
Bee Gees | Billy J. Kramer | Chad & Jeremy | David & Jonathan | Donovan | Emitt Rhodes | Freddie & the Dreamers | Gerry & the Pacemakers | Grapefruit | Herman's Hermits | Jimi Hendrix | Kippington Lodge | Love | Manfred Mann (Group) | Mary Hopkin | P.F. Sloan | Peter & Gordon | Pink Floyd | Small Faces | The Animals | The Association | The Beach Boys | The Beau Brummels | The Blue Things | The Bobby Fuller Four | The Byrds | The Creation | The Dave Clark Five | The Easybeats | The Fourmost | The Hollies | The Idle Race | The Kinks | The Left Banke | The Liverbirds | The Lovin' Spoonful | The Merry-Go-Round | The Monkees | The Moody Blues | The Move | The Palace Guard | The Pretty Things | The Remains | The Rolling Stones | The Searchers | The Shadows | The Sorrows (UK) | The Undertakers (UK) | The Who | The Yardbirds | The Zombies | Them | Tomorrow | Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders

Artist Followers
10cc | ABBA | ABC | Aerosmith | Ambrosia | Argent | Aztec Camera | Badfinger | Bay City Rollers | Bee Gees | Belle & Sebastian | Big Star | Billy Joel | Billy Squier | Blue ?yster Cult | Blur | Boston | Bread | Buffalo Springfield | Carpenters | Cat Stevens | Chad & Jeremy | Cheap Trick | Coldplay | Cream | Crowded House | David Bowie | Donovan | Dwight Twilley | Electric Light Orchestra | Elliott Smith | Elton John | Emerson, Lake & Palmer | Emitt Rhodes | Flamin' Groovies | Fleetwood Mac | Foo Fighters | Freddie & the Dreamers | Genesis (U.K. Band) | George Michael | Grateful Dead | Hsker D | Harry Nilsson | Herman's Hermits | Iron Butterfly | It's a Beautiful Day | Jackson Browne | James Taylor (Soft Rock) | Jason Falkner | Jeff Lynne | Jefferson Airplane | Jellyfish | Jimi Hendrix | Joe Jackson | Jonathan Richman | Kansas | Kate Bush | King Crimson | Led Zeppelin | Lenny Kravitz | Lloyd Cole | Love | M. Ward | Manfred Mann (Individual) | Marmalade | Marshall Crenshaw | Matthew Sweet | Michael Jackson | Moby Grape | Modern English | Mott the Hoople | Neutral Milk Hotel | Nick Lowe | Nirvana (US) | Oasis | Peter & Gordon | Peter Frampton | Pink Floyd | Pixies | Prefab Sprout | Prince | Procol Harum | Queen | Quicksilver Messenger Service | R. Stevie Moore | Rick Springfield | Robyn Hitchcock | Rockpile | Sebadoh | Simon & Garfunkel | Sloan | Small Faces | Sonny & Cher | Spirit | Split Enz | Spoon | Squeeze | Status Quo (UK) | Steely Dan | Supergrass | Supertramp | Syd Barrett | T. Rex | Teenage Fanclub | The Alan Parsons Project | The Apples in Stereo | The Association | The Beau Brummels | The Byrds | The Cars | The Chameleons UK | The Church | The dB's | The Dream Academy | The Dukes of Stratosphear | The Feelies | The Go-Go's | The Guess Who | The House of Love | The Idle Race | The Iveys | The Jam | The Knack (US) | The La's | The Left Banke | The Lovin' Spoonful | The Mamas & the Papas | The Merry-Go-Round | The Monkees | The Moody Blues | The Move | The Nazz | The Neon Philharmonic | The Nice | The Police | The Posies | The Raspberries | The Replacements | The Residents | The Rockin' Berries | The Rubinoos | The Rutles | The Sir Douglas Quintet | The Smithereens | The Soft Boys | The Spongetones | The Stone Roses | The Three O'Clock | The Turtles | The Who | The Zombies | Third Eye Blind | Todd Rundgren | Tom Petty | Traffic | Travis (UK) | U2 | Utopia | Vanilla Fudge | Weezer | World Party | XTC | Yes