The funny thing is that The Beatles were on drugs almost from day one. By 1963, they had been playing the red light district in Hamburg on speed for years. "I Want to Hold Your Hand," "She Loves You" -- this was a sound and energy that had been honed by amphetamines.
the beatles burst on the scene with i like girls girls like me lyrics and five years later they were all f-d up on drugs in india, writing like they're f-ing yoda. it was great.
Yes, The Beatles tried some new things and were very influential, but they were never the vanguard of avant-garde music; by the late 60s, experimentation was happening everywhere. But the early stuff was revolutionary, indebted as it was to Chuck Berry et al. An atom bomb.
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the revolutionary thing about The Beatles (besides just their crazy consistent and prolific output) was to do with the shift of mass popular culture. but like people were doing crazy shit with electronic music in the '50s.
you see it a lot in the film space, where people confuse certain movies that have experimental features or push the boundaries of the mainstream with actual experimental work
