The Beatles Musical Extravaganza

One artist I think gets short shrift when it comes to changing music - and this includes the Beatles themselves - was Bob Dylan.

He built on the beat poetry of the 1950s and the protest songs of the same period into the 1960s and took the lyricism of the time - love songs, standard fight songs, praise songs - and made the words matter so much more than they ever had before. He changed the way song lyrics were written. We don't need a chorus, we can tell stories, we can have character studies, pop songs can be 11 minutes long, styles can be changed.

Dylan changed songwriting for the better. He made it something beyond what had come before and his influence is still felt today.

His Nobel Prize was well-deserved.