How the Beatles invented metal

It's no secret that I love classic rock, and that my all time favorite band is The Beatles. Unfortunately, it seems that many people today don't realize what impact the Beatles had on music, and thus often see them as "overrated" or something along those lines. This could not be farther from the truth, which is that without the Beatles modern music would be radically different, or would have at least evolved differently. Anyways, this is something I've thought up after pondering this subject for a while. I believe it shows how much influence the Beatles had and have on other musicians.

In 1968 the Beatles released what I believe to be their best album, simply titled "The Beatles", though you probably know it as "The White Album". Track number 6 on the second disc of The White Album is "Helter Skelter". This song would later be perverted by Charles Manson and his "family". But that has nothing to do with this. Helter Skelter is radically different other Beatles songs, and shows John (Who wrote the song) had changed since the days of "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and even from the Sgt. Pepper album. Many consider Helter Skelter to be the first hard rock song. While many bands and musicians, like the Who and Jimi Hendrix, had done harder stuff than the Beatles, but Helter Skelter's jagged guitar licks, yelling vocals, and boiling pace were new, and set the standard for future bands who focused almost solely on hard rock.

One of these bands was Led Zeppelin, which emerged not long after The White Album was released. Though they, much like The Beatles, had a wide range of styles, they were most known for their hard rock (Leading the uninformed to label them "jock rock"). On Zeppelin's third album (Led Zeppelin III) was the "Immigrant Song". This is one of the first, if not the very first, heavy metal song. IT would inspire artists from Black Sabbath, to AC/DC (Ugh), and from Metallica to Dethklok (I like Metalocalypse, okay?)

And it wouldn't have happened without The Beatles.

"I've got blisters on me fingers!"