If there had been a buglary the night you were conceived,would you have been born?
If your mama was married to someone else,would you have been born?
Such are the questions we used(me and my cuzzin)to ask ourselves when we were kids.
And this thread has reminded me of them.
Thing is,the events that take place in the world have sooooooo many elemnts factoring in,and soooooooooooo many options,that the different possibilities that exist are infnity!That's not an exclamation mark.It means infinity factorial.Factorial,in case you don't know,is something that is used in statistics when evaluating probabilities(amongst many other uses).For instance,2! would be 2 times 1.8! would be 8 times 7 times 6 times 5 times 4 times 3 times 2 times 1.So you know what infinity! is.
If you ask me,all the effect the beatles had,in deed all the effect anyone has,is this:
If there were no beatles,well,there would be no beatles.
It's like arguing that if Alexander Graham Bell died when he was 13,there wouldn't be phones today.
Or if Marie and Petrie(?) currie didn't exist,we wouldn't have x-rays in hospitals.
The truth is,we'll never know what would have happened if this and that didn't happen.
The options ate way too many.
We'll never know.
And in any case,no one person invented rock and all.They may be the ones who first became famous because of it.But they didn't invent it.
Music is dynamic.It develops from all over.People say Bob Marley invnted reggae.Yeah yeah.