Will there ever be a band bigger than The Beatles?

I personally don't think it can happen. Sure there may be artists that end up selling more records or downloads. But no band will ever have the influence that The Beatles had and still have. No bad will be able to match their innovation.

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caesar7 · 61-69, M

No....I doubt it. The Beatles started something very radical and it was a very different time. Everything in rock music has been discovered. Unless someone or some band starts something that we have absolutely never heard before, then, it won't happen...certainly not in contemporary music.

helenS · 36-40, F

@caesar7 I doubt there was anything new in "pop" music since ca. 1980.

caesar7 · 61-69, M

@helenS .....I think the period of the 60's was best in newly discovered styles in modern music. Bands then developed their own sound and creativity on the 70's but the Beatles were the first to make that huge impact that we know today. Funny how we define complexity when it comes to music....before modern music, the enlightened years were way ahead of the game. How Gregorian and instrumental folk evolved to "classical" music is so awe aspiring also. Bach would have been the Beatles of that time. Man, I know what I am talking about as I am a music graduate and got to be blown away by how the creative mind was thinking in those days to create something so out of this world. Orchestration is another thing that adds to this. Truly blown away. Nothing will ever compare to it. Nothing.