http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2006/jul/16/popandrock.shopping
It is useful for looking at what music has influenced each other. Lets take for example no 2
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2 The Beatles
Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
There are those who rate Revolver (1966) or 'the White Album' (1968) higher. But Sgt Pepper's made the watertight case for pop music as an art form in itself; until then, it was thought the silly, transient stuff of teenagers. At a time when all pop music was stringently manufactured, these Paul McCartney-driven melodies and George Martin-produced whorls of sound proved that untried ground was not only the most fertile stuff, but also the most viable commercially. It defined the Sixties and - for good and ill - gave white rock all its airs and graces.
Without this ... pop would be a very different beast.
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What does this say this was the first album after the Beatles stopped touring properly it is an album that came out during the so called summer of love in 1966 and it is one of the best Beatles albums, you just have to listen to a day in the life to understand,. this song was also banned by the BBC due to its lyrical content they thought it was drug fueled which to be frank it possibly was.
the Beatles a day in the life (not real video they didn't have them in 1966 oddly the Beatles started that too)
