Kraftwerk haben sicher alle im Bereich elektronische Musik und darüberhinaus beeinflusst, die sie auch nur einmal gehört haben.
Ich finde es auch nach Jahrzehnten immer noch magisch, wie signature ihre Aufnahmen sind. Absolut unvergleichlich, selbst Yello, DM oder NewOrder können da für mich nicht mithalten.
Wie Gore in dem Interview ja sagt: "Godfathers"
Aber die Beatles waren auch nicht ganz unwichtig, schlussendlich wohl ein klares Unentschieden.....
"If it weren't for the Beatles, there wouldn't be anyone like us around." -Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin
"If it weren't for the Beatles, I wouldn't be a musician." -Dave Grohl, Nirvana/Foo Fighters
"Everyone was influenced someone. But everyone was influenced by the Beatles." -Alice Cooper
"Everyone thought the Beatles will just pass by. But to me, they had staying power." -Bob Dylan
"The Beatles are the reason I'm a musician." -Sting, The Police
"The Beatles' songs are in my genetic material." -Robin Williams
"When the Beatles first played on the Ed Sullivan Show, they looked so cool. I knew something changed that night." -Joe Perry, Aerosmith
"There's no way I'd be doing what I do now if it wasn't for the Beatles. I saw them on the Ed Sullivan Show, and it blew me away how 4 guys from the middle of nowhere can make that kind of music." -Gene Simmons, KISS
"I fell in love with music through The Beatles. I still think there hasn't been a better band than them." -Adam Levine, Maroon 5
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is probably the best album I've ever heard." -Brian Wilson, Beach Boys
"I don't think anyone comes close to the Beatles, not even Oasis." -Brian May, Queen
"I saw the Beatles. I was able to relate to them. I'm going to play in a rock band." -Tom Petty, Heartbreakers/Traveling Wilburys
"I think the Beatles were an incredible, incredible, incredible group." -Richard Sherman
"I watched the Ed Sullivan Show and said Fuck School! This makes it! I went to see them at Shea Stadium and screamed with those chicks." -Joe Walsh, The Eagles
"The Beatles were the first to find that path between artistic and intellectual." -Keith Richards
Ozzy Osbourne has described how it felt when the Beatles emerged onto the music scene.
The
Prince of Darkness may be best known for being the frontman of heavy metal legends
Black Sabbath, but he's a self-confessed fan of the Fab Four and has credited them with turning his world "to colour" from black and white.
Speaking in the latest episode of
The Osbournes Podcast, the 75-year-old rocker explained: "It was like going to bed in a black and white world and waking up and it turned to colour. That's exactly what it felt like... and and that wasn't my line."
"They made life that was quite mundane into such fun," added his wife Sharon.
Ozzy - who would have been 13 years old when The Beatles released their first single in 1962 - went on: "You don't forget, we came out of World War II and the whole thing... We had strict rules to live by. And it was that they broke the f***ing doors down for so many people and they gave freedom to the world."
In a documentary, Robert Fripp explained: “When I first started playing guitar, which was December 25th, 1957, when my parents bought me a very cheap guitar for Christmas, almost immediately I knew this guitar was going to be my life. One night, coming back from college, I think it was, I turned on Radio Luxembourg, and it was late. I had no idea who it was, and it was actually
Sgt. Pepper.“
“That incredible wind-up at the end of ‘A Day In The Life’, it terrified me. Shortly afterwards, I was listening to it all at once,” he added. Fripp then listed albums by John Mayall and The Bluebreakers, Béla Bartók, Antonín Dvořák and Jimi Hendrix as other vital influences upon him at that stage in his life, which helped him with his decision.
Fripp concluded: “Although all of the dialects were different, the voice was the same. And at that time, I couldn’t say no. This one night where
‘A Day In The Life’ galvanised me was really the turnaround, I knew I couldn’t go to the college of Estate Management in South Kensington. One of 200 men and four women taking a degree in Estate Management.”
Rather than becoming another number on a corporate course, Fripp followed his heart and chased his dream. While this could have backfired, and the guitarist may have apologetically re-enrolled in South Kensington, ‘A Day In The Life’ was his sign to pursue his true love. Even if it all ended in disaster, at least he would have been able to proudly say he gave it his best shot with his head held high. Thankfully, it was the start of a beautiful chapter which is still being written today.
Fleetwood Mac are one of the most legendary bands of all time, but they were of course influenced by other artists just like everyone else.
Throughout the 1970s, one of the band's founding members,
Stevie Nicks, looked back on the Fab Four as one of the most powerful inspirations behind her work.
Buckingham’s intrepid curiosity was inspired in no small part by The Beatles’ example. Like many of his peers, Buckingham fell in love with the Fab Four in their besuited mop top days of ‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand’ and ‘Please Please Me’, but was taken on an inspiring journey of bizarre psychedelia and anthemic poetry.
Lindsay Buckingham: Speaking to
Stereogum in 2022, just before McCartney’s 80th birthday, Buckingham picked out ‘Here, There and Everywhere’ as a favourite from the Beatles catalogue. Continuing, the Fleetwood Mac guitarist regarded the entire
Revolver album as a monumental moment in musical history that “significantly broadened the landscape of the Beatles’ music.”
Most of all, a 17-year-old Buckingham fell in love with McCartney’s ballads on the album, namely ‘Here, There and Everywhere’ and ‘Eleanor Rigby’. “The melody and chord changes are transcendent, and the production values, while largely defined by Paul, remain rooted in the collective, evolving sensibility of the Beatles,” Buckingham explained. “
Revolver was perhaps the group’s high watermark in terms of composition.”
Adding a final note of praise for his favourite
Revolver track, Buckingham described ‘Here, There and Everywhere’ as “a paragon among many masterpieces.”
Nirvana:
“I would say the biggest influence I’ve ever had would be The Beatles,” Cobain once shared in an interview with Mimmo Caccamo, explaining a life-long love affair that began at the age of five.
In fact, Cobain crafted Nirvana’s unique sound by fusing his interest in the Fab Four with the heavier elements of punk and metal, focusing on both the power of simple melodies and more profound, more thought-provoking musical arrangements. As a result, he perfected the balance between tender rock ballads and faster, energetic grunge sounds, coming up with an innovative sonic experience that would live on years after he passed away.
Like many Beatles fanatics, Cobain’s appreciation for the music was anything but casual. In fact, he once listened to 1964’s US album
Meet the Beatles! for an entire day. According to former bandmate Dave Grohl, Cobain’s love for The Beatles’ simplicity is what formed a lot of their earlier sound, but it wasn’t always an easy thing to emulate. “They sound easy to play, but they’re fucking hard,” he mused, alluding to the common misconception that their chords and melodies are entry-level.
After Cobain listened to
Meet the Beatles! on repeat, he wrote ‘About A Girl’, a sleeper hit that originally found its home on
Bleach. Beginning with a simple acoustic chord progression, it’s easy to spot the Beatles’ influence in ‘About A Girl’, especially in the version that appeared later on
MTV Unplugged in New York.
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