The Beatles literally came out of nowhere and took over the world. No other group took advantage of the times such as they did. They came at the exact perfect moment (the US was still getting over JFK's assassination), they wrote their own music (not many performers did that at the time) and as you said, they were foreign in their accents, speech and upbeat music.
Its hard for me to understand how anyone with any taste for good music at all can say that they do not like or even appreciate the music that the Beatles delivered.
From their early days, which sounds simple yet their writing esp. their chord progressions changed popular music for the better IMO and were filled w/ minors on 7s, etc., that songwriters are STILL using these techniques today. Now don't even get me started on their psychedelic and late period classic rock periods. Man they were incredible!!!
IMO, I think John Lennon's "Plastic Ono Band" record can be historically linked to punk rock and even further to Kurt Cobain's raw, primal, honest and intense recordings.
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