Watchman,
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I suspect that the only Beatles songs you've ever heard are those which receive radio airplay. Though many Beatles tracks do get airplay, obviously most don't, so what you hear on the radio cannot fairly represent the extent of their output. I bet you'd be ASTONISHED if you were to listen to the entire Help! album, the entire Rubber Soul album, the entire White album, the entire Abbey Road album, etc. Beatles discs are supersaturated with tremendous tunes. While it may be true that "I Want To Hold Your Hand" is, as you say, "simple music," this misses the point. As previously stated, what most impresses is the prolificness and rapid growth of the Beatles: 13 albums in only seven or eight years, FROM "I Want To Hold Your Hand" all the unbelievable way TO "A Day In The Life" (and beyond). I love the music of Gordon Lightfoot, but consider this: Lightfoot can write well in perhaps one or two "styles" or "genres" of music, but the Beatles were talented with pretty much EVERY possible style (rock, pop, blues, folk, metal, broadway and whatever I've left out). No exaggeration.
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