Edit: Woopsies! Der Gnat beatled me to it. But still I have answered to a sufficiency that now precludes him from having to be asked the question.

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Why do so many people seem to think the Beatles were geniuses?
Not perzactly a yesserno question but I can stab at answer...

One must understand 60's era and have been of age to know the truth of it. Rock 'N Roll was transition from crew cuts and black horn rim glasses to bold new direction. Choice was either Beatles (AKA "mop tops with Nehru jackets) or Freddie and the Dreamers who were advocacy of the ethnocentric White Man dance called "The Freddie".

Wise people heralded Beatles over Freddie and the Dreamers and embraced multi-culturalism. We can attestimony to genius of Beatles in follow-on gift to world of Ravi Shankar & sitar, Yoko Ono, Help and Yellow Submarine cinema verite, and Ringo Starr in Caveman...all are sinequenonal and led to cultural flowering which was dawned in new millenium.

So, basically, Yes.(Edit: This answers WGnat's question) Next...

Isn't Katie Couric terrific?
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