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Originally Posted by Spectralmusic
To put Sgt Pepper into context, the following albums came out the same year:
Frank Zappa - Absolutely Free
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
The Doors - The Doors
Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
Procol Harum - Procol Harum
The Beatles where so "ahead of their time" and revolutionary right?   |
Those albums are good and push boundaries in different ways but none of them come close to having the positive effect on pop music for forever. The Beatles were far ahead of any of those bands. Part of being revolutionary is having a revolution, not just wanting one.