The luckiest person of the last 100 years

[65fastback2plus2]

I don't understand?

Lets see what they said about chuck berry...

 

[Trouty]

Lets see what they said about chuck berry...

It's incredibly well-known within the Beatles fandom. Single most influence on the band.

http://beatlesarama.com/paul-mccartney-explains-beatles-wouldnt-exist-without-chuck-berry/

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/paul-mccartney-on-chuck-berry-he-was-a-magician-w472980

https://www.digitaltrends.com/music/5-bands-influenced-by-chuck-berry/

 

[Trouty]

The Beatles are still influencing bands, from Animal Collective to Tame Impala. The only other band I can think of that has this current influence from the 60's is The Beach Boys (and, namely, their masterpiece album Pet Sounds).

 

[65fastback2plus2]

The Beatles are still influencing bands, from Animal Collective to Tame Impala. The only other band I can think of that has this current influence from the 60's is The Beach Boys (and, namely, their masterpiece album Pet Sounds).

Martin Strong, "No one made a greater impact on the Beatles than Brian (Wilson)"

All bands and musicians influence each other in some way. Elvis was out there BEFORE the beatles doing rock and roll before nearly anyone else. Elvis easily predates the beatles, so its kinda silly to say they had the biggest impact when Elvis obviously did.

 

[Trouty]

Martin Strong, "No one made a greater impact on the Beatles than Brian (Wilson)"

All bands and musicians influence each other in some way. Elvis was out there BEFORE the beatles doing rock and roll before nearly anyone else. Elvis easily predates the beatles, so its kinda silly to say they had the biggest impact when Elvis obviously did.

The Beatles started genres. Elvis predates the Beatles in Rock N Roll, a lot of bands/musicians do. It wasn't their 63-early 65 stuff (Rock n Roll) that was ground breaking (other than numerical records), it was their post-'65 catalogue.

Brian Wilson is a music God. He is arguably the second most transcendent musician (after the Beatles) in current music (I'm not talking that top-40 crap we hear on the radio today )

 

[65fastback2plus2]

The Beatles started genres. Elvis predates the Beatles in Rock N Roll, a lot of bands/musicians do. It wasn't their 63-early 65 stuff (Rock n Roll) that was ground breaking (other than numerical records), it was their post-'65 catalogue.

Brian Wilson is a music God. He is arguably the second most transcendent musician (after the Beatles) in current music (I'm not talking that top-40 crap we hear on the radio today )

The Beatles:
Genres

• Rock
• pop

Elvis:
Genres

• Rock and roll
• pop
• rockabilly
• country
• blues
• gospel
• rhythm and blues

Who helped create what genres again? I guess rock didnt exist before the beatles? lool.

Now, lets try this again with someone who ACTUALLY invented genres.

Presley's first recording, a blues song titled "That's All Right Mama", was previously recorded in 1946 by Arthur Crudup. In this recording Presley married "black" and "white" genres to an extent that it was denied airplay on (white) country radio stations and (black) R&B stations, dismissed for being defined as both "black" and "white" music. Record Producer Sam Phillips was told by country deejays that Presley's "That's Alright Mama" was "black music" and lamented they would be "run out of town" for playing it. Similarly, R&B deejays categorized it as a (white) country song. When the song was finally played by one rogue deejay, Dewey Phillips,[43] Presley's recording created so much excitement it was described as having waged war on segregated radio stations. "The Sun recordings were the first salvos in an undeclared war on segregated radio stations nationwide."

Mixing blues, R&B and country...now THATS inventing a genre.

 

[Trouty]

The Beatles:
Genres

• Rock
• pop

Elvis:
Genres

• Rock and roll
• pop
• rockabilly
• country
• blues
• gospel
• rhythm and blues

Who helped create what genres again? I guess rock didnt exist before the beatles? lool.

Now, lets try this again with someone who ACTUALLY invented genres.

Beatles were more than pop and rock. They created Psychedelia, Prog Rock, and were one of the first to create punk. They also had an influence on heavy metal. You're associating them too much to their '63-early '65 catalogue.

I'm not saying Elvis didn't cover a wide range of genres. But he didn't create any, and his influence outside of certain genres is limited, today.

 

[Silver Surfer]

I can't pick a single luckiest person of the last hundred years..... but the single luckiest group of people of the past 100 years is pretty obvious to me:

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[65fastback2plus2]

Beatles were more than pop and rock. They created Psychedelia, Prog Rock, and were one of the first to create punk. They also had an influence on heavy metal. You're associating them too much to their '63-early '65 catalogue.

I'm not saying Elvis didn't cover a wide range of genres. But he didn't create any, and his influence outside of certain genres is limited, today.

Elvis didnt create any, but he had songs people couldnt find a genre it fit into...makes sense

 

[Trouty]

Elvis didnt create any, but he had songs people couldnt find a genre it fit into...makes sense

I listen to a lot of Elvis, have read a lot about him, too, I don't recall him starting any genres. Tho, he did make Rockabilly a viable genre.

The Beatles did more for Rock N Roll than even the great Elvis did, even in their back half decade of music. And that's only Rock N Roll.

This really isn't even a debate, but I appreciate your perspective, my brother, 65

 

[65fastback2plus2]

You made me have to turn on some elvis here at work to cleanse my aura lol

 

[Trouty]

You made me have to turn on some elvis here at work to cleanse my aura lol

Can never go wrong with that amazing man, 65!

 

[dallasdave]

I can't pick a single luckiest person of the last hundred years..... but the single luckiest group of people of the past 100 years is pretty obvious to me:

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http://i636.***BLOCKED***/albums/uu87/jdjohnston1960/Ric-Ocasek-Paulina-Porizkova.jpg

Nice pics !!!

 

[dallasdave]

I listen to a lot of Elvis, have read a lot about him, too, I don't recall him starting any genres. Tho, he did make Rockabilly a viable genre.

The Beatles did more for Rock N Roll than even the great Elvis did, even in their back half decade of music. And that's only Rock N Roll.

This really isn't even a debate, but I appreciate your perspective, my brother, 65

Elvis Baby !!

 

[MichaelWinicki]

The beatles had 20 #1 hits on the US charts with the longest being Hey Jude at #1 for 9 weeks.

Elvis had 18 #1 hits on the US charts with the longest being Hound Dog #1 for 11 weeks.

Hound dog > Hey Jude

Mariah Carey has also had 18 #1 hits with One Sweet day topping the charts for 16 record breaking weeks.

Seriously overplaying the beatles here...hey jude is a boringggggg song and didnt even have the strength to stay #1 for longer than Elvis.

Oh no knock on Elvis. I'm a big fan.

But if I'm choosing his life or Paul McCartney's... I'm definitely taking Paul's.

Plus Paul wrote a lot of his songs... Elvis and Mariah... Not so much.

 

[65fastback2plus2]

Oh no knock on Elvis. I'm a big fan.

But if I'm choosing his life or Paul McCartney's... I'm definitely taking Paul's.

Plus Paul wrote a lot of his songs... Elvis and Mariah... Not so much.

Still havent even touched on Elvis' movie acting which is what to me makes him the trump card.

Can sing? check
Can act? check
Can write music? check
Can play multiple instruments? Check
Can dance? Check
Was in the military? Check

Its like there wasnt anything he couldnt do nearly.

 

[65fastback2plus2]

And thanks to Trouty, Elvis is still playing here in the office.

 

[Silver Surfer]

Nice pics !!!

Yep... get your money for nuthin' and your chicks for free.....

 

[YosemiteSam]

OK, who do think is the luckiest person in the last 100 years?

I don't mean they were lucky in getting where they were– Anyone that's achieved some level of success has had to invest a certain amount of work, money and time.

I mean some when you look at their career you think "Damn talk about achievement."

Achievement isn't about luck. Like say, Mark Cuban. His billions from Broadcast.com was luck, not his achievement. His technology was garbage and he got a sucker (Yahoo) to buy it for a ridiculous amount of money.

Then you have people like Elon Musk. I personally do not like the guy, but he is 100% achievement, not luck. Now, I like what Elon Musk is doing now, but he was a flat out thief with what he was doing with Paypal when he built it. He stole money and used the end-user agreement to prevent you from suing him when he stole your money. Thank <insert deity here> someone else (Ebay) now owns it.

 

[Silver Surfer]

Elvis Presley's main impact on rock music was that he "sexualized" rock music to the young white female community, thereby causing subsequent adolescent white males to idolize and imitate him. As previously mentioned, blacks like Little Richard had been playing this type of music for years, but segregation being what it was, that type of music was not widely acceptable. Elvis changed that and ultimately the course of rock music.