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As observers noted then -and sometimes lamented- the Beatles had no machismo; they didn't flaunt their male sexuality, unlike "Elvis the Pelvis," who was too phallic and groin-centered to be a gender revolutionary. The Beatles had the advantage -though no one described it as such- of being oblivious of the blues tradition in a Liverpool musical scene grounded in skiffle, the music hall, rockabilly, and country music.

"I'm sure this will be difficult for people hundreds of years from now to comprehend... but for a time in the late 1960s, a lot of people really believed that some kind of revolution was imminent, and that the music let you feel what it was going to be like"[...]Without that music - and more important, the records that delivered it - the sixties would obviously have been very different.