I think you obviously don't like them and that's fair enough.
There are approximately 20,000 cover versions of their songs by some of the world's leading and revered artists, Frank Sinatra Elvis Presley Elton John Oasis Jimi Hendrix Nina Simone Aretha Franklin David Bowie Joe cocker Bob Dylan Neil Young Crosby stills and Nash, Shirley Bassey Tony Bennett The Beach Boys Count Basie Bon Jovi Bjork BeeGees James Brown Booker T ... list just goes on and on.
They have sold over 1 billion records worldwide. They had a number one album 50 years after they split up.
Ask most top musicians what they think of The Beatles and they will praise them heavily, a lot will even say that The Beatles are the reason they got into music and the music industry. People like Sting and Paul Simon to name but two.
30 songs at number one in UK and America, and most other countries.
In 1965 they had the top 5 positions on the American charts, no British band had ever even had a hit in America.
You can't argue against facts.
What other band has achieved anywhere near the above ?
In what way are they overrated ?
I’d add their extraordinary diversity into the equation as well. At various points the Beatles served up Motown pastiches, incipient rockabilly, heavy metal, string quartets, psychedelia, show tunes, and even, in the shape of Tomorrow Never Knows, what sounds like a prototype for rave.
Seriously though, Eight Days A Week, Roll Over Beethoven, All My Loving, Til There Was You, For No-One, In My Life, Eleanor Rigby, Tomorrow Never Knows, Strawberry Fields, Within You Without You, She’s Leaving Home, I Am The Walrus, Yer Blues, Honey Pie, Happiness Is A Warm Gun, Good Night, Helter Skelter, Sun King, the variety is almost infinite. I know music is a personal thing, but when people say they don’t like The Beatles, to my ears they might as well be saying they don’t like music
