The Beatles came up in the rock and-and-roll era, when Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Elvis Presley defined cool. Their early shows were big beat bacchanals, the Brit interpretation of that crazy American sound. But it wasn't long before they were absorbing and creating more and more music – from folk to experimental, to psychedelia and hard rock, quite literally changing music forever and influencing hundreds of great bands in the process. This...

"This book draws connections between various things in pop culture (movies, films, bands, cartoon, etc.) and the Ramones, showing the mutual influence or connectedness and recommending such pop culture trends to readers."