The Beatles Copied Motown

Yes, and Michael Jackson stole his moves from James Brown and Elvis. Most artists are influenced by someone who has gone before them. But when you put your own personal spin on those influences they become yours. Look at Oasis and other bands who got their influence from the Beatles!

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yes The Beatles copied Motown - they openly covered their songs and gave them credit for it, talked about how they liked and were influanced by motown artists (both during and after the band) - even to the point of joking in press conferences that their favourite singer was 'Pamela Motown' - a joke on Tamila Motown, the label set up to release and promot the artists to England. The Beatles helped Motown get interest and support from British fans and Motown singers covered The Beatles (there's at least a whole cds worth currently available) so I don't think there was any rivalry. The Beatles may have had more sucess with some songs like Twist and Shout, and have people not realising that it's a cover but there's nothing on the scale of The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin covering/copying & adapting blues songs etc. in Zep's case often without crediting the writers and claiming the songs as their own with only a few changes.

Just like acraven said - everyone copies everyone. In fact, there were songs that different artists released in the very same year and sometimes both artist had success with the same song or one caught on more than the other because of the particular arrangement/tempo or because the label marketed it right. I think there is even a song by the Platters that they were not the first to do but had a bigger hit. The fact is so many musicians are influenced by others. And its the converging of influences that gives a group their unique sound. What is not mentioned here is that yes, the Beatles covered a few Motown songs but they wrote a heckuva a lot of totally original songs too. And Motown was influenced by the variety of music that came before too.

During that time frame artists didn't often write they're own music so they all did different versions of the same songs. Beatles copied Motown, Motown copied CCR, and it seems everyone copied Buddy Holly. The pool of available songs was smaller. The Beatles wrote they're own music from the start but it wasn't used until later albums. Then the trend of writing your own music started to catch on, that's why most artist write they're own music now.