The Beatles are the most influential band in history.

A very good argument indeed. But unfortunately I would have to disagree with your statement. Lets begin with a few points, a point yet mentioned. 1) British Invasion: The British Invasion a term used by Americans to describe the large amount of musical groups coming overseas from England. The band that started the invasion was none other than the Beatles in 1964. Which brings us to point: The Beatles come to America and they have a great deal of success. They then begin the phenomenon what we now know as the British Invasion. Queen, who formed in 1971 in London, after the Beatles career and the invasion were finished, made their mark on music. So to recap on my ramble, Beatles= Invasion without Beatles their is no Invasion, without Invasion their is no Queen. To work off your point of "while influencing generations to come with music still extremely popular today" 2) 27 Number One Hits : I think it is safe to say that the Beatles have done plenty to leave their mark on society, especially with twenty-seven number one hits. Having eighteen number one hits and selling somewhere near 300 million records, Queen still falls short to the whopping twenty-seven number one hits and over 600 million records sold by the Beatles. Making both bands members of the best selling musical artists list, with the Beatles as number one and Queen coming in seventh. Yes both bands did wonders in record sales, but I don't believe that is nearly enough to distinguish between the two. 3) Influence on music: I would like to hear your reasoning for Queen revolutionizing music because when I think revolutionizing music I automatically think of the Beatles. Being the crazed fan I am I think it is safe to say I have heard every Beatle song at least once, meaning I know the sounds of the songs. As well as being a music enthusiast I know the sounds of many different instruments. Leading me to the point, the Beatles managed to introduce many estranged instruments into main stream pop culture. For example in the Beatles number one hit, Yesterday (which also happens to be the most covered song in history) was first to introduce a string quartet to a main stream music. Another example would be the Beatles Indie phase. I'd like to clarify, the term Indie is in reference to Indian style music not the Indie-Rock music of today. The Indie phase was first introduce to the world with the Beatles seventh studio album, Revolver in 1966. Many songs on the album introduce a new star instrument to main stream music the Sitar, which is a plugged string instrument similar to that of a guitar. The use of this instrument would later be used by the Rolling Stones "Paint it, Black" another follower in the British Invasion. In this time period the Beatles also introduced groundbreaking techniques such as reversed guitar, processed vocals, and looped taped effect. This phase soon meet up with the new emerging genre of music called "psychedelic music". This genre of music which will soon be lead by drugs will lead us into a whole new style of music in the late 60's and all of the 1970's, was first introduced to us by the Beatles. The first song to feature such a sound was the Beatles "Tomorrow Never Knows" which also was featured on Revolver. This is just a slight overview of influence the Beatles had on music and society. More support will be used as needed.