The great impact classical music has had on The Beatles' music The Beatles were inspired by many different musical styles. The most important of these were classical music. A lot of Beatles songs have instruments, ideas and elements from music written by for instance Bach and Beethoven. By Per Wium, music journalist Baby it's You Many people think that the classical influence of The Beatles started with "Yesterday". But in the early Beatles days, they used classical instruments on two songs. The first one is from the very first album "Please please me". The song is "Baby it's You". A few weeks after the group had recorded the song, George Martin added a celeste. The celeste is sometimes used with the symphony orchestra. The hungarian composer Bela Bartok wrote a huge work called "Music for strings, percussion and celeste"! The celeste doubles the guitar theme on "Baby it's You". Every little thing