WI The Beatles don't sell out

[Tyr]

I'm not the biggest Beatles fan in the world, their influence on music is majorly overstated however they were still a large influence.
So WI they don't sell out, when they get offered their record deal they play tough and refuse to smarten up and remain somewhat scruffy rock&rollers retaining their old drummer rather then allowing the pretty boy Ringo on board.
What effects on music do you think this would have? (assuming people agree to let them continue as they are obviously)
I'm thinking it may lead to a earlier punk movement with a continuing of rock&roll as the most popular form of music rather then a downgrading to the Beatles pop rock.

 

[Xen]

I wouldnt say they sold out, the first Beatle to change his image was Stu Sutcliffe in Hamburg, Germany. His lover Astrid Kirchner gave him the look the Beatles of the mid 1960s had. The others followed suit once with Brian Epstein, making them much more easily marketable.

Had they not changed their image, they might not had gotten a record contract with MCI/Parlaphone or Decca or anybody else. They would have played in danky little cellar cantinas in Europe, perhaps with a few trips across the Atlantic to play in the same type of cellars in the United States and Canada. But without the Beatles making their influence on rock-n-roll, there might not ever be a popular punk rock.

As far as Ringo goes, that wasnt really selling out. Pete Best really didnt get along with the others overly well. George Martin had asked Brian Epstein to do something with him, he didnt care what they did with Pete on stage, but he wanted another drummer for the studios. Little did Epstein know, John, Paul and George were considering dumping Best anyways. Poor Epstein was given the task by John to tell Best he was fired. Ringo I believe was inevitable.

Besides Ringo wasnt the pretty boy or the cute one, according to Pauls fictional grandfather in A Hard Days Night, fans picked on his nose. Paul was the cute one, or so Im told.