> I want to hear an enjoyable song, not "I wanna hold your hand" repeated 15 million times (and that's just one listening!) Well, at one point Dylan told Lenno

> I want to hear an enjoyable song, not "I wanna hold your hand" repeated 15 million times (and that's just one listening!) Well, at one point Dylan told Lennon that his lyrics were shit ... so you're not wrong ... People forget that the Beatles rode a technology wave, as well. TV uptake meant that the they were in the right place and right time to be a cute Boy Band. Audio recording technology underwent a vast shift and improvement in less than 10 years. The Beatles also happened to actually have talent and be very good musicians. And managed to have a band that didn't implode until after they generated a solid catalog. Maybe they weren't first at everything they did, but they were close enough to first and had a reach due to their Boy Band years that nobody else could possibly match. So, The Beatles doing something novel was invariably how anybody not directly in the "scene" would find out about it. People also forget that The Hollies were arguably more popular than The Beatles back in the UK. However, America was the music market at that point.