The Beatles Fallacy is the hegemonic misconception among
hack musicologists that the British Rock band The Beatles were "revolutionary" or "groundbreaking" in the history of music, ignoring earlier rock and roll, garage, and politically relevant songwriting; the Beatles are mistakenly assumed to have invented or been the "most influential" in the myriad styles they performed, despite the existence of contemporaries
like The Rolling Stones, The Sonics, etc., and the pre-existence of
like way harder albums than Revolver.
NOTE: The Beatles Fallacy is related to the misconception that Rock and Roll prior to 1960 was all hokey
crap, and is the
bastard stepchild of the Elvis Hypothesis, crediting "The King" with the invention of Rock and Roll, thereby ignoring shit black people had been doing for
like 10 years.