The Walrus said
 Take a wild stab in the dark which one gets screams because he's a brilliant drummer and which one will be thrown on the cessheap once his band stop making Simon Cowell money.

Do you really think those girls all screamed because they thought Ringo was a brilliant drummer? Do you think they appreciated Paul's basslines, George's imitating Chet Atkins in his solos, or watched out for the chords John was playing? No, they were screaming because they thought the Beatles were cute. Or at least the vast majority were, I'm willing to bet. Which is why ...]]> Fri, 04 May 2012 17:25:45 +0100 http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/yesterday-and-today/the-beatles-can-use-your-votes-in-mtvs-battle-of-the-boy-bands/#p52337 Yesterday... and today http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/yesterday-and-today/the-beatles-can-use-your-votes-in-mtvs-battle-of-the-boy-bands/#p52337

minime said
And you probably get a discount of the cds? Nice

The music section contains books on music rather than CDs.

I do get a discount at the music store next door because it used to own the company, unfortunately that lapses in June because the bookshop was purchased by a Russian bloke.

That kid looks like a Disney boy, whatever his merits are, I hope Cowell takes his responsibility

Upon reading ever so trustworthy wikipedia, it seems people usually think of boy bands as a highly commercial band consisting of pretty boys who all dance and sing. Ok, none of them really danced with the exception of MMT but... It's quite obvious that when they first surfaced big time, they were a very much "marketed" band, mostly because of Epstein, I suppose, wearing uniform suits and hairstyles and writing simple, catchy songs... Of ...]]> Thu, 03 May 2012 21:35:31 +0100 http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/yesterday-and-today/the-beatles-can-use-your-votes-in-mtvs-battle-of-the-boy-bands/#p52322 Yesterday... and today http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/yesterday-and-today/the-beatles-can-use-your-votes-in-mtvs-battle-of-the-boy-bands/#p52322 I work in a bookshop, and the idiot who runs the music section* keeps describing the Beatles as the first boy band and the first rock band. It makes me rage, because neither description is remotely accurate. In the usual sense of the word they aren't even a boy band. The Monkees maybe (especially at first), but even then, they had some creativity.

One of these people was in a boyband:

http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/yesterday-and-today/the-beatles-can-use-your-votes-in-mtvs-battle-of-the-boy-bands/#p52296 I have to disagree with you guys, I feel they are a "boy band" and an important bedrock in the development of that style, though not one which should be compared and contrasted with what we think of as a "boy band" today. I don't think, for instance, that they belong on that poll.