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Originally posted by: eros
Mostly 70's, 80's hard/heavy rock, the harder 60's kinks stuff (the true pioneers of hard rock) and popular classic stuff like Holst, Elgar, Wagner etc.
As for the Beatles the mersey beat had been an ongoing underground thing 2 or 3 years before they hit the big time. It was going to happen that one of these bands would be big (prime example is the Sexpistols in the 70's, not the best but the first to be sold to the british public) the beatles were just lucky to be picked first.
But it's what they done AFTER they made it big that has cemented their place in music history. Their early stuff was throwaway, but they moved on while other bands didn't and pretty much shaped modern music. They tried things noone had tried, and sometimes failed, but they definitely pushed the barriers. You can always argue that somebody else would have done it, just like you can argue that if star wars didn't exist it would be something else, but we don't live in an alternate dimension so that reasoning doesn't fly. I play guitar and write songs, and the Beatles' structures and changes are amazingly inventive. We'll have to agree to disagree.