The Beatles revolutionised music. They took the rock and roll of the 50's and turned it into the pop of the 60's. The beatles changed everything about music, from the way it was made to the way it was marketed. they invented so many things that changed the music industry, quite frankly its gets tedious to list them, from multitracking to the use of innovative instruments, from the Sitar to the Picollo Trumpet.
They saved Classical Music from the hole it had dug itself into by using classic music devices like the Aeolian Cadence and classical instrumentation, and they became the brand leaders of the Swinging Sixties and as such, had vast and profound influence over art, music, fashion, design, culture and society. They profoundly changed the attitude of the western world, and helped transform 50's Rebellion in 60's Protest.
The Beatles were a paradigm shift in culture and a turning point in western cultural history, there influence on popular music was still reverberating in the 1990's. Without the Beatles., and there effect on 60's musical culture, there would not have been Progressive Rock, Glam Rock, Punk, and all the other genres that followed as a result.
