and the rolling stones. and the beach boys.

they were musically formulated to be strongly appealing to a great mass of people.

good. it worked and i love em

lol exactly

all 3 experimented with music and sounds raising the bar pn popular music. it would seem odd to me...

for a band to say ' lets make music that's inaccessible to most people'

especially at the start of their career

like... maybe they had calculated popularity in mind at first... but they used that popularity as a means to explore and push the art