If you get right down to it....what the Beatles really did that was original for the time was write their own songs. Most of George Martin's and their ideas about production were being done by Pierre Schaeffer and others who were involved in Musique concrète decades before them.


They just brought it to the mainstream's attention. Without Pierre Schaeffer and Musique concrète....bands like The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, etc....would have been a lot different or in the case of Pink Floyd most likely not lasted long.



There really hasn't been much true originality in music's history.