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The Beatles (The Beetles)
The Beatles were undoubtedly the most influential band of the century. In the span of eight years, they not only changed rock and pop , but, forever, changed the face of all music.
Genres: British Invasion British Psychedelia Folk-Rock Merseybeat Pop Pop/Rock Psychedelic Rock & amp; Roll amp; Roll)
John Lennon (John Winston Lennon) Guitarist, singer
Born: October 9, 1940, Liverpool, England
Died: December 8, 1980, New York, United States
Paul McCartney ( James Paul McCartney) bassist, singer
Born: June 18, 1942, Liverpool, England
George Harrison guitarist, singer
Born: February 25, 1943, Liverpool, England
Ringo Starr ( Richard Starkey) Drummer
Born: July 7, 1940, Glen of the Trees, Liverpool, England
In the late 1950s, under the influence of rhythm and blues, a new style of music, rock 'n' roll, was born.
In 1956, Lonnie Donegan and the Chris Barber Jazz Band hit the Top 10 with a song called "Rock Island Line" by Hootie Ledbetter. (The Chris Barber Band recorded a song called "Catc--all" in 1967, which was written by Paul McCartney between 1957-1960.) Ronnie Donegan's subsequent string of successful hits (e.g., "CumberlandGap," "Gambling Man Ronnie Donegan's subsequent series of successful songs (e.g. "Cumberland Gap", "Gambling Man") started the "Skiffle" music craze that swept the British Isles. Thanks to its simple instrumentation (sometimes just everyday household items like a washboard) and an "anyone can do it" attitude, teenagers across the country were forming their own skiffle bands.
One of these sudden "Skiffle Bugs" was a 16-year-old Liverpudlian boy named John Lennon, who got interested in pop music by listening to Elvis Presley's 1956 recording of "Heartbreak Lodge," but "Skiffle" music was not the only thing he was interested in. The rise of "skiffle" music prompted him to form his first band in March 1957, which was called "Black Jacks", with John playing a guitar that he begged his aunt to buy for 17 pounds, and another member, Pete Shotton, playing a a scrubbing board. The group soon (a week later) changed their name to 'Quarry Men', a line from their school song, and the QuarryMen's personnel was always changing often with friends joining in. They started playing at parties and "Skiffle" competitions around Liverpool. They once performed in a talent contest organized by Carol Leavis, but failed to pass the preliminaries. A month after that failure, Pete Shotton arranged for "QuarryMen" to perform at a summer festival at St. Peter Parish Church in Walton. It was held on July 6, 1957.
On July 6, 1957, in another part of Liverpool, Ivan Vaughan, a member of the Quarry Men, was persuading his friend Paul McCartney to go with him to see the Quarry Men. Quarry Men", claiming that it's a good place to meet girls. Anyway, Paul went to the show with Ivan, and Paul said of John: "I remember going to the place and seeing all the shows and listening to all the music, and it was John and his band. I remember being amazed because I was really drawn to that music. I remember John was singing a song called Come On With Me. He had heard that song on the radio, but he didn't know the words, he just made up his own words if he didn't know the song, and he looked good, and he sang well, and he would have been a good lead singer for me. Of course, he didn't have his glasses on, so he did look mild, and I do remember that John was really good, he was the only one who stood out, the others didn't make much of an impression."
Ivan introduced Paul to John after the Quarry Men's afternoon set. "I was a chubby middle-school boy, and he [John] put an arm on my shoulder, and I thought he must have been drinking! "Paul grabbed a guitar and started showing the band his genius. He sang "Tw--enty FlightRock" and "Be-Bop-A-Lula", both of which were John's favorites (Paul later copied the lyrics for him.) Paul's ability to memorize all of the lyrics amazed John, and the fifteen year old boy showed a skill on guitar that all of the members of the "Quarry men" still lack. Quarry men" members had yet to master.
July 6, 1957, was the most important day in Beatles history.
Two weeks later, Pete Shotton rode his bike through Walton to invite Paul to join on behalf of John and the band. After Paul McCartney joined the Qua--rry Men, the Quarry Men didn't immediately accept George, thinking he was too young. George, however, was determined to join the band and admired John, imitating him as he went along, and his house became a good place for the Quarry Men to rehearse. When he finally joined the band, it was renamed Jonny and the Moondogs. That fall (1958) they played under the name "Jonny and the Moondogs". It was in Liverpool that people started to like the band... In 1959, they changed the name of the band to "Silver Beatles" and they had a big problem: the band didn't have a drummer. George Harrison said he knew a guy from the club. He was Pete Best and he joined the band.
By August 1960, they had shortened their name to The Beatles. They traveled to Hamburg, Germany, where it was easier to find gigs. When they first arrived, they were told that the band had to be five people. So they returned to Liverpool and asked a friend if he would like to join the band as a bass player. That person was Stuart Sutcliffe and he said yes. By then it was 1961. They then played regularly in Hamburg, and from August 17th to October 3rd they played at the Intra Club for four and a half hours a night and six hours on weekends. After this, as the police closed the Intra Club, the Beatles moved to Kaiserkellar to continue playing, where they met a drummer, Ringo Starr, from Liverpool's best-known band at the time, RoryStorm and the Hurricanes, who soon became good friends with them.On October 15. John, Paul, Geo--rge, Ringo and Lou Walters, another member of the Hurricanes, got together in a studio to record George Gershwin's Summ-- ertime. It was also at Kaiserkellar that Stu met Astrid, a girl studying photography. The two quickly fell in love and were engaged two months later.The Beatles' early toilet cap hairstyle, a look later copied by some singers, was designed by Stuart's girlfriend Astrid. On a road trip, they met singer Tony Sheridan. Sheridan wanted to record a new album, My Bonnie, but couldn't find a band. They said they could accompany him and it was an instant hit. Sheridan's producer gave the band a new name, "The Rhythm Brothers," but the name was only used for the backing tracks.
In November, the Beatles moved to The Top Ten Club, and on November 21st, the unlucky George was deported by the German police after he was found to have played the club under the age of 18; only a few days later, Paul and Pete were deported after being accused of setting a fire in the shed behind the movie theater where they were staying; and naturally John had to pack up and head back home. had to pack up and go back home. Only Stu stays, for the girl he loves and for the painting. George, Paul and John didn't get in touch until February of the following year, when George didn't even know that the other Beatles were back in the country.Stu's departure left the Beatles looking for a bass player. At first, they found Chas Newby from Pete's old band, the Blackjacks, but soon Chas left the Beatles to continue his education. In 1961, without a bassist, the Beatles once again embarked on a journey to Hamburg. In the meantime, in order to have a permanent bass player, the Beatles decided to solve the problem internally, and John, Paul, and George began to push back and forth: John wanted George to be the bass player, while the others wanted John to be the bass player. The end result was that Paul took the job. At the time he happened to be without a guitar (it had just arrived in Hamburg and broken) and had been playing the piano and had to steal someone else's guitar, and because he was left-handed, he had to play it backwards. Rumor has it that when he became a bassist, his first bass was a seven-string bass with strings "borrowed" from a club piano in Hamburg. One day Paul went out looking for his first decent bass, he went to a small store in the center of Hamburg and saw a violin-shaped bass in the window, a Hafner 500/1, which he bought for about $45. He went on to have a number of different Hafner 500/1s.
In 1960, he played the Top Ten club in Germany and helped Tony Sheridan release the single My Bonnie, in front of an audience that included Brian Epstein, manager of the North End music store, who ran a recording studio. "He was very impressed with the Beatles' performance. He told the Beatles he wanted to be their manager. How could the Beatles not be impressed by this offer? In November of '61, Epstein began working with the Beatles on a number of new projects, including a new album, a new album, a new album, a new album, a new album, a new album, a new album, a new album, a new album, and a new album. Epstein then began contacting almost every record company in Britain. He arranged for the Beatles to audition at Decca Records on the first day of the new year, 1962. They sang 15 songs that Epstein had carefully selected, including three they had written themselves: "Hello Little Girl", "Like Dreamers Do" and "Love Of The Loved". However Decca didn't think their songs would be a hit and didn't sign them.
Soon after, Epstein met with George Martin, who ran Parlaphone, a small EMI company, and who, having already been rejected by a number of labels, had become disillusioned, and the meeting was in fact mostly a joke, since George Martin's company produced comedy recordings. The meeting with George Martin was actually half a joke, as George Martin's company mainly produced comedy recordings. Epstein gave George Martin a demo of the Beatles, which was not very good, but in order to find out what the Beatles were like, George Martin asked Epstein to bring them in so that he could see them for himself. A few months later, on June 6, 1962, the Beatles came to Abbey Road Studios to audition for the first time, and George Martin spent two evenings and an afternoon listening to the Beatles, and was quickly impressed by the Beatles' charisma. The Beatles wrote "LoveMe Do", one of his favorites, and "P.S. I Love You", another, but there was only one thing George Martin was slightly dissatisfied with, and he told Epstein about it, unaware that this was exactly what Epstein and the other Beatles had been thinking about. The quiet Pete Best had always been a bit of a misfit with the other Beatles, and his drumming was hardly enough to support a rock band like the Beatles, who, above all, did know of another, more accomplished drummer.
On Aug. 16, Ringo Starr officially replaced Pete Best as the Beatles' drummer. This infuriated Pete Best fans, and Mersey Beat soon received a petition with hundreds of signatures, and many of them gathered in front of The Cavern Club to demonstrate, chanting "Pete Best Forever, Ringo Never! There were even a few scuffles. On one occasion, Goeroge Harrison was punched in the face, and on August 18th, after only two hours of rehearsal, Ringo joined the other Beatles for their first official recording session at the Parlaphone. For the second recording session on September 4, producer George Martin wanted them to sing the Mitch Murray song "How Do You Do It", but the Beatles insisted on using their own song "Love Me Do", an argument that resulted in the Beatles winning. Before the recording session, George Martin's suggestion to add John's harmonica was accepted, but they had to change their plans for John to sing Love Me Do to Paul, who had a natural stage fright, making him nervous.
On October 5, Love Me Do/P.S. I Love You, the Beatles' first UK single, was released. The story goes that Epstein paid for 10,000 copies of the record out of Epstein's own pocket to make sure it hit the top twenty in the charts. For them, this was more or less an achievement. From there, they began touring the country. Their new song "Please Please Me" hit number one on the Hot 100 chart. Some of their other early chart toppers were "She Loves You" and "From Me To You". This was the beginning of the real Beatlemania. That same year, they played their first show in Sweden, and by now the US was eager to see them play. Bryan Epstein and their producer George Martin wanted them to play in America. But the Beatles said: "We'll only go if our song goes to number one in America". So instead of going to America, they went to France. After a performance in France, they received a telegram to their hotel: "Capitol Records congratulates you! Your song went to number one on the American charts." So after their trip to France, they started to play in the United States. There they had great success. After the great American tour, they returned to England and started shooting their first movie, A Hard Days Night.
The third trip to Hamburg in 1962 was a painful and unforgettable one, and on April 10, 1962, the day before the Beatles arrived in Hamburg, Astrid got a phone call from her mother saying that Stu had a headache that made her want to jump out of a second-story window. She rushed home to take Stu to the hospital, but on the way there, Stu died in her arms. Astrid picked up John, Paul and Pete at the airport with red eyes, and John Lennon's words "With lovers and friends I still can recall, Some are dead and some are living" in the song "In My Life", refer to the fact that "I'm not sure if I can remember, but I'm sure that I'm not sure if I can remember," and "I'm sure that I'm not sure if I can remember. The success of the Beatles caused Decca Records to feel remorse and indirectly led to Decca Records signing Rolling Stone, and from here on out, groups of the same ilk began to pop up, and rock and roll changed again with the Beatles. In 1964, the Beatles visited their teenage idol Elvis Presley in Grace Land, USA. Elvis expressed his disdain for the four kids who were the only ones in the martial arts world, and was lying on the couch watching TV, not wanting to talk to these brats, but the Beatles didn't care, and just thought it was a strange meeting. The Beatles had a record-breaking performance at Shea Stadium in August 1965, and took the opportunity to visit their youthful idol, Elvis Presley. Elvis rebuked the four kids to their faces, criticizing the Beatles' music as noise that created social problems. On October 26, 1965, the Anglican Church resolved to award them the Medal of Honor, and at Buckingham Palace, Queen Elizabeth herself presented each member of the group with an MBE (Member of the British Empire). The new album and second movie, titled HELP!, sold millions of copies.
Toward the end of 1965, the Beatles performed at New York's Leaf Arena to a record crowd of 55,000. No one had ever had such a large audience before. This is when their music became more varied. George Harrison was also inspired by Indian music, which can be heard in the album "Eraser Heart". They soon embarked on an Asian tour, which featured new songs, including Paperback Writer. They also traveled to the Philippines, where they felt uncomfortable because the Beatles fans there were too much, and they were exhausted by the crazy fans everywhere. At the end of 1966, they played their last official show in the United States, at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. After that they had more time to record songs.
In 1967, the Beatles made rock 'n' roll a serious art form with the release of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, a concept album that was no longer confined to the subject matter of men and women, and in June of 1967, they were invited to perform live on the world's first-ever satellite broadcast. They wrote a song called "All you need is Love" for the occasion, which was broadcast on three satellites, allowing the Beatles to be seen in 24 countries.
In 1968, they recorded "The white album". In 1969, they made Let It Be, and by this time they were so tired that they felt these albums should be their last. However, they felt that Let It Be was a bit too sad, so they made the album Abbey Road again. They played their last show on the roof of the Apple company they had opened in London.
In April 1970, the Beatles announced that they were disbanding, but their members continued their music careers, and their albums were still being sold, including a new anthology that sold very well. "The Beatles were, are, and probably always will be the most popular and successful musical group of all time.