The Beatles didn't rubber stamp tunes to fit the commercial market. They did what they wanted and created many timeless masterpieces. Today talent is hired by producers to fit into a little plastic mold for the commercial market. No originality and no individuality, and it shows.
Well said. In fact, we forget that at the time songs like "I Want To Hold Your Hand" or "She Loves You" were out that these types of songs were as way-out as it got for that time. They seem so commerical now, but at the time these early Beatles songs were different from anything heard before.The other amazing feature of these talented artists was their refusal to stay in a mold. For those of us who followed their music, each album was different from the one before, and set new limits for originality and diversity. They never repeated themselves. And as you wrote, they never compromised their musical ideas to fit into a market, never. They expected the market to accomodate to their ideas.