Talk:The Beatles#No consensus
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Make that Eight Grammys
We can update that total to eight now that they picked up their latest for "Now and Then".
https://www.grammy.com/artists/beatles/16293
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/03/entertainment/the-beatles-grammys-2025/index.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/grammys-2025-beatles-rolling-stones-win-b2691115.html
https://www.theverge.com/news/604970/beatles-ai-restored-song-now-and-then-grammy-win 131.193.45.228 (talk) 22:21, 3 February 2025 (UTC)
Can we change the image
File:The Beatles 1963.jpg|Proposed
File:The Beatles members at New York City in 1964.jpg|Current
File:The Beatles arrive at JFK Airport.jpg|Original
Similar to other bands' Wikipedia images, the image of the Beatles should not be a square of combined images. Rather, it should be an image showing all of them together. Therefore, I propose an image of the Beatles in 1963, which is posed and shows all of them in their most iconic look. This image, aside from being a better image than the current, represents the Beatles in the way everyone remembers, similarly to the current. They are all smiling and looking at the camera too, so it does not look as awkward as the current. Thoughts? Wcamp9 (talk) 17:21, 30 March 2025 (UTC)
:I'm all for switching to the proposed image if the copyright concerns are cleared up. I also talk page messaged you on Commons as I can't find the image in the source link given. Miklogfeather (talk) 20:36, 30 March 2025 (UTC)
:This has been discussed briefly a few times before; see here, here, here, and here. The problem usually is a copyright issue, if you are able to prove that this image is PD it shouldn't be a problem to change it (though it may require an RfC). Yeshivish613 (talk) 21:17, 31 March 2025 (UTC)
:The proposed image has been nominated for deletion. The uploader indicated it was published in 2014, though the PD justification requires it was published in the US between 1930 and 1963. Tkbrett (✉) 08:38, 1 April 2025 (UTC)
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I vigorously reject the idea that the Beatles were a "rock" band. They were a "pop group". Some of their tracks were quite 'heavy', but that's not true of most of them. The first line of the article should be changed. 217.155.97.203 (talk) 22:37, 15 April 2025 (UTC)
:they are a pop rock band Foxboy716 (talk) 18:16, 17 April 2025 (UTC)
The Beatles a Rock band?
The Wikipedia pages about The Beatles start out wrong. The Beatles were mostly a "Pop" band that played "Rock 'N'Roll" but eventually evolved into a quote "Rock" band that also played pop music.. It would be more accurate to describe them as a "Rock 'N' Roll" band or better yet a "Pop/Rock" band. This needs to be given some serious consideration for all Beatles Wikipedia pages that make the statement leaving the impression that The Beatles were exclusively a "Rock" band. The Beatles usually weren't Led Zeppelin. The Beatles had many chart topping pop hits also. Thank you for your consideration of what many I know deem an important flaw in Wikipedia pages concerning The Beatles.71.30.164.50 (talk) 05:54, 12 May 2025 (UTC)
:Wikipedia content depends on what reliable sources say, not your and my opinions. Oddly, it takes until the 8th use of the word, to find "rock" referenced, but there it is, in a mention of Grammy AWards - "The Beatles were the first rock band to land an Album of the Year nomination (for Help!) and win (for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band)." HiLo48 (talk) 06:23, 12 May 2025 (UTC)