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Funk you're overplaying your card. Beatles may not be your favorite artist, but to deny their artistic ingenuity is to play it too hard. The fact that other artists can use their works and make them sound great should show they have a solid musical base. Now I agree with John Coltrane as being very important, and I'm a musical idiot, not a well-trained musician a la creekster.

Beatles have forever influenced modern pop culture and music. However, they were immensely more talented than they average pop musician today, a la Britney Spears. They didn't have the vocal range of Mariah Carey.