Why We Love The Beatles (v2) 62 of 100: Evolution

Many bands do not evolve. They get a great sound/approach/live act and it works and their audience love them for it and it pays. It's a perfectly acceptable model. Some bands on the other hand like to grow. It's a huge risk of course because if you don't have the sustainable talent and album two doesn't do so well, you're out in the wilderness trying to collect enough tracks for a Greatest Hits Collection.

The lads of course never had that trouble; they just couldn't move quickly enough. Just when we thought we'd got them pinned down, they were off in another direction. And if any other player in the world of popular music would dare to do anything interesting, well the Fab Four would do it better . With an oeuvre as large as The Beatles it's tricky to get a real appreciation of how they did evolve, but a quick and dirty way is to look at their Number Ones: from the gorgeous simplicity of From Me to You through the developing lyric sophistication of Hard Days Night via the colossus of Eleanor Rigby, the charm of Something and the integration of Let it Be. And those were just the deliberate 'commercial' ones. Review the B sides and full album contents and Maybe, You'll Be Amazed.

Evolution? The Beatles were the Masters.

That's another reason we love The Beatles

The Back-Story

Reason 1: Story-tellers; 2: Sgt. Pepper; 3: Eternally optimistic; 4: Still cool; 5: George Harrison.; 6: Love Me Do

7: Work Ethic ;8: Synchronicity; 9: The Roof-top Concert; 10: Candlestick Park; 11: Lennon & McCartney

12: I Saw Her Standing There; 13: Liverpool; 14: Black & White; 15: Album Covers; 16: John Lennon

17: Lennon & McCartney; 18: Rock 'n Roll; 19: They Never Made it Easy; 20: Ringo

21: Meditation & Massage; 22: The Back of a Commer Van; 23: George Martin.

24: Simply Different

25: A Time to Think

26: Revolver

27: Yeah, Yeah, Yeah