[a fool in paradise]

“There are going to be hundreds of new Beatles fans once all of this is done; it’s almost guaranteed.”

Hundreds of new fans? Drop in the bucket of stardom.

Flaming Lips’ cover of the Sgt. Pepper album with Lady Gaga probably exposed more people to the Beatles than Kanye will.

What are the drum beats that people loop from Beatles songs?

I know there was a gansta rap song that used rhythms from “Somebody’s Knocking At The Door” (the refrain is the same except there is a shotgun being cocked before the line “Open the door, and let ‘em in”)

[Borges]

In contemporary top 40, James Brown is a much bigger influence than the Beatles and the Stones combined.

[GeronL]

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