JamesInFlorida
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- Dec 18, 2010
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Well The Beatles were extremely influential in one major regard: nobody before them actually wrote their own lyrics/music (outside of Buddy Holly), and after them nobody dared not to. Paul McCartney on the bass had a lot of bass lines and fills-which wasn't done before that time. And a lot of young bands out there today will cite The Beatles as an influence. Just because somebody doesn't name a group as an influence-doesn't mean their influence isn't there. Most people who play the electric guitar for example are influenced by Les Paul-even if they never cite him as one.
what??.....ever hear of Chuck Berry?.....Link Wray?.....The Everly Brothers?....Richie Valens?....Bo Diddley?......Little Richard?......
-Ellas McDaniel wrote almost all of Bo Diddley's songs
- the Everly Brothers didn't write most of their songs, most of their albums were covers, or written by other people/the producer (they get writing credits for maybe 1-2 songs on most of their albums).
-Link Wray came out at the same time as The Beatles
-Little Richard wrote about half of his songs, sometimes less (depending on the album)
-Chuck Berry and Richie Valens I agree 100% with.
I guess saying "nobody" wasn't completely accurate-but overwhelming majority didn't. But by the 70's rolled around, there weren't many people performing songs that they didn't write (or co-write).