system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why are the Beatles now treated like legends, when back then, they were seen as just some boy-band fad, soon to dissappear?
gpt
That is not a fair likeness. While they might be considered such a phenomenon, what they are great by is that they took music and made something entirely new with it. It was simply new and scary and exciting as they released their albums. 

Douglas Adams, an outspoken fan of Beatles as he was, once said that when they came out with a new album, he would run to the store, buy the record, and run back, break into the school room where the record player was, and for the first few times he listen to it, it just left him cold. "It was simply unlike anything I've ever heard before"

I suspect that this is the true greatness of the band.