I think the Beatles certainly influenced Dylan, but Dylan influenced the Beatles much more. It seems to me that the Beatles were more impressionable, & that was really their true strength. And Dylan's strength was how contentious he was. You also see it in how the Beatles/Stones/Beach Boys were all following a similar trajectory, & Dylan never really got caught up in that, for instance avoiding psychedelia when everyone else was headlong into it.
For me, Dylan's influence on the Beatles is obvious, the opposite is harder to pin down.
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Originally Posted by Electrophonic Tonic
While his music did bleed into the sound of bands like the Beatles and the Byrds, the musical roots the Beatles extend far beyond Dylan's.
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Are you saying the roots of the Beatles extend far beyond Dylan's roots, or that their roots extend far beyond just Bob Dylan? If it's the former, I would object to that. If it's the later, I would agree... I think all of the artists in this poll offer their own thing & none are wholly derivative of another.