Huge Beatles fan here. I always liked their first 3-4 albums the best, especially when they did Motown covers, but have a special place in my heart for “Sgt. Pepper” and “Abbey Road.” Hard to get any better than those two albums.
In between, I was ok with “Rubber Soul, Hard Day’s Night, and Magical Mystery Tour,” but did not like the White Album at all. It was as if each was allowed to just play their most ridiculous crap without any real sense of a band.
For me, the Beatles were always far more about HOW they sang and performed than WHAT they performed. Just as the Beach Boys had harmonies that no one could copy, so did the Beatles with their unique blend of vocals.
Some acts tried to copy their blend of vocals. The Chartbusters came close, and although they got some radio airplay, they came nowhere near to busting any charts.
She's the One--The Chartbusters (1964)
“It was 20 years ago today, Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play.” That would have been 1947, so could “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” actually be about the Truman Doctrine and the start of the Cold War? I’m not the only one who has thought of this.
“Sgt. Pepper” could be General Walter Bedell Smith, and “Billy Shears” could be Ambassador William C. Bullitt, both movers and shakers in the early years of the Cold War.