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''The love you take
''Is equal to
''The love you make''
|"[[Grand Finale|The End]]"}}
Four lads from Liverpool -- [[John Lennon]], [[Paul McCartney]], [[George Harrison]], and [[Ringo Starr]] -- who released some albums in [[The Sixties]], and are credited by many for changing the face of rock music, while for others they were at least major pioneers of the new style of pop rock, and a major force of [[The British Invasion]]. For many people, they are also the face of [[The Sixties]]. Which is not bad work, really.
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** Of course, even in their "mass-marketed pop band" days the Beatles wrote original material and played their own instruments, which doesn't really fit this trope.
* [[Insult Backfire]]: All four were skilled at giving smart assed answers to criticism, but Paul may have achieved the crowning moment at a 1965 press conference:
{{quote|'''Reporter:''' In a recent article, [[Time (magazine)|Time magazine]] put down pop music. And they referred to "Day Tripper" as being about a prostitute, and "Norwegian Wood" as being about a lesbian. I just wanted to know what your intent was when you wrote it, and what your feeling is about the Time magazine criticism of the music that is being written today.
'''Paul:''' Well, we were just trying to write songs about prostitutes and lesbians, that's all. }}
* [[Intercourse with You]]: "Please Please Me," "A Hard Day's Night," "Drive My Car", possibly "Revolution 9," "Why Don't We Do It In The Road?", and others.
** Wait, "Revolution [[Mind Screw|9]]"? How is that -- ''what''?
* [[In the Style Of]]: A few. A notable one is "Rocky Raccoon," more or less an explicit semi
** "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" is basically John doing [[Bob Dylan]].
** Don't forget "If I Needed Someone" being in the style of [[The Byrds]]. Or "Here, There and Everywhere" and "Because" being in the style of [[The Beach Boys]] (no, seriously -- listen to those harmonies). And "Back in the U.S.S.R." is not only in the style of Sixties-era [[Chuck Berry]], but it's specifically a parody of one of Berry's smaller-scale hits.
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