The Beatles place in Prog History

I read some interviews on an online record store for some years ago and many top names in the progressive genre choosed the Sgt. Pepper album to be the most progressive album and to be the album that started it all for example with songs floating like a whole into each other.

 

My personal favourite is Magical Mystery Tour, these lads know how to make both fun and serious music that will never die. 

I have some thousands of records and i can say that Beatles beating almost all of them, can't say what album they don't, maybe after all they sweep the floor with anyone 

well  some years ago i was not a big fan of beatles. i thought they were just another pop band that didin't worth all this fame. but as years pass away, some things change and some opinions too. in our days i am a big fan of beatles and i love every album they recorded. my top 5 includes: revolver, white album, sgt. pepper's lonely hearts club band, abbey road and rubber soul. i know it is quite strange for a 24 years old person to listen to beatles in our days but how can i resist to their music?
it is impossible.




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well said. I agree. Alot of people nowdays are ignorant about the Beatles, saying they're some cheap boy band who sang 3 chord love songs!

It happens all the time with my friends

Were the Beatles Prog?
That's like asking if God's a Democrat or a Republican. He's above all that and so are they. Not saying that they are God Almighty, but they are certainly gods of all rock and roll. Remember, rock was dark and without substance, then came Elvis who took it from dark to light. Then came the Beatles who expanded the genre and saw that it was good. Where the Beatles went, rock followed. Everybody and I mean everybody at the time waited to see what direction the Beatles would take music next. Hendrix, Zappa, Beach Boys, Jagger, LZ, Tull, Yes, Dylan, Doors, Paul Simon, Elton John, not to mention the country western, jazz and pop stars, they all took their cues from the Beatles. Make no mistake: no Beatles, no Prog. They taught the world how far rock 'n roll could go. Ask the giants of prog what they thought of the Beatles. Ask Jon Anderson, Ian Anderson, Robert Fripp, Frank Zappa (if he were alive). They will tell you the same thing I've already said. They were gods. True, there were embryonic awakenings of prog with other bands at the time in remote places under obscure names, but nobody with the name power of the Beatles who had the ability to pioneer and experiment with every type of music and have it commercially successful. And thats how the Beatles (unbiet known to themselves) started prog: by borrowing sounds from everything and every type of music and experimenting and having commercial success. It must be remembered that without commercial success most music by the modern era would die a premature death. So when you're taking about the Beatles take your shoes off proggers your on holy ground.