This seminar explores the role of The Beatles in revolutionizing music and society. We'll be focusing on their musical progression album by album and the hippie culture they came to embrace and transform. From their youthful beginning as romantic crooners to their mature denouement as a rock band that defied genres, this quartet changed the way the world looked at music. We'll look at their great triumphs, their bitter shortcomings, their quirks and kinks as people and musical artists, and how they came to be the band that while defining their 1960's generation caused an earthquake in musical history that still reverberates.