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Tue 30 December 2025 16:30, UK
The impact of The Beatles’ music on popular culture is something that really needs to be studied to be understood.
No one quite knew what they were listening to when the Fab Four first started making their pop masterpieces, and there are subtle hints of what they did scattered throughout every generation that came afterwards. But when you look back on what they did in the 1960s, there are a few tunes that will still have the same impact if they were listened to in the 2060s.
The work of John Lennon and Paul McCartney was virtually flawless from the start, but if we’re talking about the moments that are bound to last for multiple lifetimes, it usually comes from their later years. The teenybopper phase of the band, as one of the greatest rock and roll acts ever, was bound to be fun, but there was a lot more for them to do once they embraced psychedelia and began using the studio as an instrument half the time.
Then again, it wouldn’t feel complete if we didn’t have songs from each respective songwriter in the group. While we will respectfully leave Ringo Starr absent from the writing side of things, Lennon, McCartney and George Harrison had tunes that introduced new ideas to the world, and their knack for turning the strangest ideas into hooks is something that most people are still trying to figure out.
So while many pop hopefuls might resort to cookie-cutter ways of making songs whenever they go into the studio, these Fab tracks are about more than writing a perfect melody. It’s about finding subtle layers in the production that are going to keep people coming back a century later and wonder how the hell mankind stumbled upon that kind of musical beauty.
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