I’m not saying the beetles weren’t a great band, they had 2 iconic songwriters, the best of their generation, but it was just they were the best at that style of music, they weren’t the 1st doing it, nor were they the last, Herman’s hermits, Gerry and the pacemakers etc all doing similar styles, just took American “black” mans blues and rock n roll and regurgitate it with a pretty white boy image to make it acceptable in a incredibly racist time in musical history, very similar to what elvis done, and the stones.
Now back to the pistols, they invented a genre of music, the was no punk before the pistols, when they were formed in 1975 the biggest selling act in the world was John Denver, music was played by highly skilled musicians, with prog-rock concept albums prolific at the time with songs taking up full sides of LP’s 25-30min instrumentals songs, musical wanking as I call it,
Then bang, the 3 min punk song, straight in yir face, one of the popular music newspapers at the time, new musical express printed 3 guitar chords on the front page, and told their readers to go buy or steal an instrument and go form a band…..
Without the pistols there’s no punk, no heavy metal, no New Romantics, no goths, no Brit pop, etc