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Originally Posted by SATCHMO
How did their music endorse a lifestyle of conformity and how did any American music that was being produced before or around the same time as the British Invasion endorse a lifestlyle of that was any more individualistic? What other factors of the 60's and 70's contributed to the music lifelessness of the contemporary age and aren't we as an autonomous nation responsible for the quality of the music we produce, not some Brits who "invaded' our country 50 years ago with music we obviously wanted nothing to do with?
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The Beatles were pretty counter-cultural than conformists - drugs, indian mysticism, peaceniks
this was pretty much against the general culture at that time, only when the hippie movement caught on, did these things became the norm
saying that, it was probably a more interesting time than now, and the reason why it's so dull now has f
uck all to do with the Beatles