What are the Beatles and why are they popular now? What breed of Beatles are they?

No, because the remaining people who are maintaining their popularity will have passed away.

No one in 2049 will have nostalgia for 1969 except a couple of centenarians. The Beatles will be as popular in 2049 as the most popular music of 1929 is today. Shall we dance the Charleston, anyone?

Who Cares? Van Jones was finally tossed from the administration because of his racist and self-confessed communist views and this is all the express can come up with? Then again, what do you expect from the clearly Liberal Washington Post?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/06/van-jones-obama-advisor-r_n_278277.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Jones

One could argue that Bach and Mozart and Beethoven and such are still popular long after

In other words: Will we still need you, will we still feed you, when you're a hundred-and-four? Probably, but not like we do today, Ringo and Paul. Sorry, tastes change.

The Express should post a poll question on 9/9/49--"Are the Beatles still popular?" Better odds that you'll get a few "Yes" votes than the paper still being in publication. coo coo ca choo

The Beatles seem pretty popular to me.

http://money.cnn.com/2009/09/04/news/companies/beatles_video_game/

I agree, Brad, but I missed the release of Rock Band Mozart.

Many people the world over still love artists such as Muddy Waters, Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Django Rheinhardt. Are their recordings flying out of the iTunes store? No, but there is still a large number of people who respect and admire these artists and listen to their work. The same will be true of the Beatles.

Of course they will. The Beatles have come to define a generation and it is being passed down from one to the next. No artist today can claim that kind of impact in such a fragmented entertainment marketplace. In addition to being in the right place at the right time, the quality of the music ensures that the Beatles will remain popular.

Absolutely. Just as NSync and Brittney will still be popular 75 years from now.

Absolutely. Like Brad said above, Bach, Beethoven, Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky, the jazz greats, Elvis et al are musical icons that will live forever.

Their music will endure in elevators and grocery stores everywhere.

Popular?
Of course they will be "popular" to the many people who still appreciate their music.
Yes, even 40 years from now.
It's really not that far away, kiddies.

Why do people post if they have nothing important to say? Do you have nothing better to do than to make stpuid comments or put people down?

The Beatles will only be as popular as the parents and and grandparents that pass down their stories and present variations in music to the young ones. Unfortunatley, this is fading.

In 40 years I believe their visages will be engraved, along with those of Boys II Men, New Kids on the Block, and the Backstreet Boys, on a Mt. Rushmore-style tribute to the all-time great boy bands.

Of course they won't. The Baby Boomers will be in their final phases of extinction and The Beatles will be as popular then as ragtime music is today.

Any chance that the Monkees can catch back up with them over the next 40 years?

I think everyone will follow the advice of one of the fab four themselves, and "forget to remember to forget", cause I can't live iin a world without love.. or the beatles.
so just let it be, let it be.

Only in old age homes.

The Beatles aren't popular now. No chance they will be 40 years from now either.

Mandarin or Spanish will be the world's lingua franca in 40 years so The Beatles will still be relics just like they are today.

I predict there songs will be known but the band will fade
Think Stephen Foster
Everyone knows Old Folks at Home,Camp town Races, Oh Susana etc. but memory of him has faded

The Beatles came from a time before Napster, Youtube, and American Idol was popular. I doubt future generations will remember or understand the impact this group made to music. Heck, we remember the non-winners of ideas in the future.

It's amazing with their level of writing skills that Common Kevin, Was Buf., Now Was, Rasterfreeart manage to turn on a computer.