The Beatles’ influence on popular culture

Presented by Dóra Vörös

John Paul George Ringo

The Beatles

Several sections of popular culture, where The Beatles played an

important part: Music Fashion TV Film Beatlesque

Music♫ Recording

-The Beatles used stereostereo panning -> other artists and producers use The Beatles' technique of panning instruments and vocals.

-They also used tapes played backwards, distortion, filters and unfamiliar musical instruments

♫ InstrumentationGeorge Harrison was the first musician in a sixties pop group to make use of the sitar sitar

FashionThe bob (or the moptop hair)

Fashion

SuitsThe Beatles would occasionally wear black, and then later grey, Edwardian collarless suits.

Drugs

Paul McCartney admitted to a reporter that he had used LSD.

He was filmed talking about the responsibility of reporters to not print anything negative that could influence popular opinion.

Television

The hit UK TV show Absolutely Fabulous, is

better known as "Ab-Fab",

and they filmed a whole episode which was based on finding the "lost tapes" of The Beatles.

TelevisionTelevision

The Beatles - animated seriesThe Beatles was an American

animated television series inspired by the band's success. ABC aired this show on Saturday mornings during the late 1960s. The band members distanced themselves from the programme's production except for the use of their songs.

Television

The RutlesThe Rutles

♫ The RutThe Rutlesles was a parody of was a parody of TheThe BeatlBeatleses, created by Eric Id, created by Eric Idlele and Neil and Neil Innes. Innes.

♫ George Harrison would later produce George Harrison would later produce Monty Python filmsMonty Python films.

Television

The Simpsons

FilmFilm

The Beatlesque

Summary

♫ The Beatles focused on ‘the melody’ which was their key to make these achievments in the popular culture.

♫ Music, culture, lifestyles, hairstyles, clothing styles and attitudes all changed because of The Beatles.

♫ They were the biggest sensation since Elvis.

♫ Their supremacy as rock icons remains unchallenged to this day, decades after their breakup in 1970.

Sources:

www.wikipedia.hu

www.megaessays.com/viewpaper/82023.html

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