Those of you who have read Robert Harris' novel Fatherland might recall that The Beatles are mentioned as playing in Hamburg in this alternate 1964. (In the movie, the Fab Four can be seen on a poster in Berlin by which the protagonist strolls.) Since, in that scenario, Great Britain surrendered to the Nazis and is a Fascist puppet of Germany's, what would their music have sounded like?
I don't imagine it would have been radically different; darker, perhaps, but probably still the same blues inspired sound we know and love today. I invision it being somewhere between the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath. I also have a hard time seeing it/them make it past Goebbels and the Reich censors, which still exist in this TL. I say this because I believe that a defeated GB would have had a climate similar to that of West Germany in OTL in that there would have been a sense of defeat, sadness, loss of hope and (probably Nazi propaganda inspired) sense of responsibility for the war. Add to this a new, oppressive government friendly to your former enemy, not to mention the spectre of nuclear war, and you have a pretty bleak outlook for the Great Britain of Fatherland.
As a result of this I think either the Fab Four's music would have been darker and heavier, perhaps leading to an earlier and bigger rise of heavy metal. Or it could have been closer to what it is OTL, with the idea of cheering people up and or getting them to rise up and overcome, so to speak.
I don't imagine it would have been radically different; darker, perhaps, but probably still the same blues inspired sound we know and love today. I invision it being somewhere between the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath. I also have a hard time seeing it/them make it past Goebbels and the Reich censors, which still exist in this TL. I say this because I believe that a defeated GB would have had a climate similar to that of West Germany in OTL in that there would have been a sense of defeat, sadness, loss of hope and (probably Nazi propaganda inspired) sense of responsibility for the war. Add to this a new, oppressive government friendly to your former enemy, not to mention the spectre of nuclear war, and you have a pretty bleak outlook for the Great Britain of Fatherland.
As a result of this I think either the Fab Four's music would have been darker and heavier, perhaps leading to an earlier and bigger rise of heavy metal. Or it could have been closer to what it is OTL, with the idea of cheering people up and or getting them to rise up and overcome, so to speak.
