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The Beatles



Introduction

The Beatles were a highly influential English

rocknroll band from Liverpool. They are the

most critically acclaimed and commerciallysuccessful popular music band in history.

This is the music I grew up with. The main

reason I have chosen this subject as the

theme to my project, is that I was fascinatedby them this whole time.



The formation

In March of 1957, John Lennonformed a group called TheQuarrymen (briefly known asThe Blackjacks).

The Quarrymen went through aprogression of names Johnnyand The Moondogs, Long Johnand The Beatles, The SilverBeetles (derived from Larry

Williams's suggestion "LongJohn and the Silver Beetles"),The Beat Brothers andeventually decided on 17 August1960 on "The Beatles".



The band members

Lennon, John (1940-1980),was born into a working-classfamily in Liverpool, England.His parents separated while

he was young, and he wasraised by an aunt. In 1955,while in high school, he joined his first rock-musicgroup. In 1956 he met bassistPaul McCartney. The twocollaborated on songs andformed several bands,including the four-memberband that became known asthe Beatles in 1960.



The band members

McCartney, Paul, (1942- ) wasborn into a working-classfamily in Liverpool, England.

Influenced by the music of hisfathers jazz band as a child,the young McCartney beganto play guitar in 1956. Laterthat year he met guitar playerJohn Lennon and joined

Lennons band, theQuarrymen. He and Lennonperformed together in severalgroups before forming theBeatles in 1959



The band members

George Harrison, MBE(25 February 1943 29November 2001) wasan English rockguitarist, singer,songwriter, author and

sitarist best known asthe lead guitarist of The Beatles.



The band members

Richard Starkey, MBE(born 7 July 1940),better known by his

stage name RingoStarr, is an AcademyAward-winning,English musician,

singer, songwriter andactor, best known asthe drummer for TheBeatles



The activity

In May of 1960, The Beatles were hired to

tour the north-east of Scotland as a back-upband with singer Johnny Gentle, who wassigned to the Larry Parnes agency.

They performed in Hamburg by playing inthe Indra and Kaiserkeller bars six or seven

hours per night.



The activity

They went back a second time and played the

Top Ten club for three months (April untilJune, 1961).

Their third trip to Hamburg was when they

opened The Star Club (April, 1962) and werethere for two months.



The activity

The band's first televised performance was on

a program called People and Placestransmitted live from Manchester by GranadaTelevision on 17 October 1962.

Although the band had a huge popularity inthe UK record charts, it was not promoted in

USA.



The activity

But the USA couldntresist too long to theBeatles mania.

In the summer of 1964the band undertooktheir first appearances

outside of Europe andNorth America, touringAustralia and NewZealand.



The activity

On August 15 that year,

The Beatles performedthe first stadiumconcert in the historyof rock, playing at Shea

Stadium in New York toa crowd of 55,600.



The activity

The Beatles performedtheir last concert beforepaying fans atCandlestick Park in SanFrancisco on 29 August1966.

On 25 June 1967, TheBeatles became the firstband globallytransmitted ontelevision, in front of anestimated 400 millionpeople worldwide.



The activity

At the end of 1967, theyreceived their first

major negative presscriticism in the UK with

disparaging reviews of

their surrealistic TV filmMagical Mystery Tour.

Their final liveperformance was onthe rooftop of the Applebuilding in Savile Row,

London on 30 January1969.



The break up and after it

Lennon announced his departure to the rest

of the group in mid-September 1969 but was

talked out of saying anything publicly. McCartney publicly announced the break-up

on 10 April 1970, a week before releasing his

first solo album.

The Beatles' partnership was legally dissolved

after McCartney filed a lawsuit on 31

December 1970.




Following the dissolution of the group, all

four Beatles released solo albums in the early

1970s, including Lennon's JohnLennon/Plastic Ono Band (1970), McCartney's

Ram (1971) and Harrison's All Things Must

Pass (1970).




The Beatles still remain enormously popular.450,000 copies of Anthology 1 were sold on itsfirst day of release, reaching the highest volume

of single-day sales ever for an album. In 2000, a compilation album named 1 was

released, containing almost every number-onesingle released by the band from 1962 to 1970.

The collection sold 3.6 million copies in its firstweek and more than 12 million in three weeksworldwide, becoming the fastest-selling albumof all time and the biggest-selling album of theyear 2000.



The Beatles vs. THE BEATLES

THE BEATLES are Bruce Coble, Steven

Shipley, Marcus Phelan and Neil Rankin, andtogether they form this internationallyacclaimed tribute to The Beatles.

THE BEATLES perform music by The Beatlescovering the entire period that they recorded

together as The Beatles.



Conclusion

This work, The

Beatles is a tributebrought to the mostpopular band of ourtimes which had a

great influence uponour lives.



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