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Your observation that guitar music is being eclipsed is too good an opportunity to pass up on to dig out the (possibly apocryphal) rejection of The Beatles back
by lb1lf 6y ago
Your observation that guitar music is being eclipsed is too good an opportunity to pass up on to dig out the (possibly apocryphal) rejection of The Beatles back in 1962 -
“We don’t like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out.”
—Decca Recording Company executive, turning down the Beatles, 1962
- dehrmann 6y agoWe might see a bunch of post-covid guitar groups.
- coldtea 6y agoDecca were proven wrong in a year or so, so that was indeed a short-lived change. Meanwhile, rock has stopped being "edgy" for 20+ years, and has stopped topping the charts and streams for equally long.
- fiftyacorn 6y agoThe set they played Decca wasn't their best tracks at the time. It's on anthology PT 1 The set they later played to George Martin was much more like the classic Beatles