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“I have never seen anything like it. Nor heard any noise to approximate the ceaseless, frantic, hysterical scream which met the Beatles when they took the stage after what seemed a hundred years of earlier acts. All very good, all marking time, because no one had come for anything other than the Beatles...”
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MembersJohn Winston Ono Lennon, (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English musician, singer and songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as a founder member of the Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. With Paul McCartney, he formed one of the most celebrated songwriting partnership of the 20th century
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MembersSir James Paul McCartney, (born 18 June 1942) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and composer. He gained worldwide fame as a member of the Beatles, and his collaboration with Lennon is one of the most celebrated songwriting partnerships of the 20th century. After The band’s break up, he pursued a solo career, later forming Wings with his first wife, Linda, and singer-songwriter Denny Lain.
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MembersRichard Starkey, (born 7 July 1940), known as Ringo Starr, is an English musician, singer and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for the Beatles. He sang lead vocals on several of their songs. He is also credited as a co-writer of “What Goes on", “Flying" and “Dig it", and as the sole author of “Don’t pass me by" and “Octopus's Garden".
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George Harrison, (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English musician, singer and songwriter who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. With Lennon and McCartney were the band's primary songwriters, but most of their albums included at least one Harrison composition, including “While my Guitar Gently Weeper", “Here Comes the Sun" and “Something", the Beatles' second most-covered song.
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The story began in Harold Macmillan’s “never had it so good” ’50s Britain. It should be fiction: four teenagers with no more than eight O’Levels between them, running and biking and busing and busking all over Liverpool in search of new chords and old guitars and half-decent drum kit and any gig at all.
1957-1962
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The CavernThe Cavern had originally been a Jazz venue, but the scene changed with the rise in popularity of skiffle and rock and roll. The Beatles made their first appearance in February 1961.
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“They’ve got something! From Liverpool, I hear, of all places.” “From Liverpool uber alles!”
1963
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Please, Please Me With the Beatles
"I’d been up to the Cavern and I’d seen what they could do and I said, let’s record every song you’ve got. Come down to the studios, and we just whistled through them in a day." GEORGE MARTIN
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Please, Please Me
The Beatles Please Please Me album was rush-released by Parlophone on 22nd March, 1963 to capitalize on the enormous success of the title track which had been the group’s second single and their first no. 1 in the majority of UK charts.
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With the Beatles
Friday 22nd November, 1963 is still remembered by many, who lived through it as the day that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Earlier on that eventful day, Parlophone had released the Beatles’ second album.
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The Beatles sweep through the great US cities, drawing tens of thousands to airports for the merest glimpse.
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"Hard Day’s Night was the first big one that I did. I had the benefit of having a director who was a musician, Dick Lester who was quite a good pianist and of course we recorded the special songs for the film as, as we just do ordinary recordings and Dick used a lot of the songs I’d already recorded you know the past albums, Can’t Buy Me Love had already been recorded for example." GEORGE MARTINBack Next
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Released on 10th July, 1964, the Beatles third album in less than eighteen months was timed to coincide with the cinema opening of their first movie.
Title Lead vocals Length
"A Hard Day's Night" Lennon and McCartney
2:34
"I Should Have Known Better"
Lennon 2:43
"If I Fell" Lennon and McCartney
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"I'm Happy Just to Dance with You"
Harrison 1:56
"And I Love Her" McCartney 2:30
"Tell Me Why" Lennon 2:09
"Can't Buy Me Love" McCartney 2:12
"Any Time at All" Lennon 2:11
"I'll Cry Instead" Lennon 1:46
"Things We Said Today" McCartney 2:35
"When I Get Home" Lennon 2:17
"You Can't Do That" Lennon 2:35
"I'll Be Back" Lennon 2:24
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Beatles for Sale
Beatles For Sale was released on 4th December, 1964 just 21 weeks after A Hard Day’s Night. It was their fourth album release in less than two years.
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These were the years of dash and daring. Millions of minds were to become expanded and many trousers would soon be spandex.
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"We always wanted every single record to have a different sound, we never wanted to get trapped in this THE Mersey beat." PAUL
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Rubber Soul was another album for Christmas – released on 3rd December, 1965 just two weeks after final mixing had taken place. Following the release of their previous album The Beatles had undertaken a momentous tour of the USA and Canada including a record breaking appearance at New York’s famous Shea Stadium.
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Help!
Released on 6th August, 1965, and eight months after Beatles For Sale, the recordings for Help! had actually started in earnest in mid February just one month after the guys had completed a season of ‘Another Beatles Christmas Show’ at London’s Hammersmith Odeon. Within days of the final February session, they were off to the Bahamas to film scenes for the movie, which like ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ was directed by Richard Lester.Back Next
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The Beatles devised, wrote and directed a television film called Magical Mystery Tour which was broadcast on BBC Television at Christmas, 1967. Even before Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, had hit the shops, the idea of the programme had been born and work had commenced on the title track.Back Next
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The Beatles or “The White album” as it became better known was released on 22nd November, 1968 on the fifth anniversary of their second album, With The Beatles. A total of 34 new tracks were released in 1968 and 30 were contained on this one double-LP.
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George Harrison Long, Long, LongWhile My Guitar Gently WeepsSavoy TrufflePiggies
Ringo Starr Don’t Pass Me By
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Yellow Submarine
Released in Britain on 17th January, 1969 (and a few days earlier in the US), Yellow Submarine was the soundtrack to an animated feature film which had received its UK premiere some six months earlier.
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First issued on 26th September, 1969 Abbey Road was the final Beatles album to be recorded but not their last to be released. Let It Be, though mainly recorded in January, 1969 was finally released in May, 1970 alongside the film of the same name.
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Let It Be
The final Beatles album was first released on 8th May, 1970, just prior to the launch of the cinema film of the same name. Rehearsals and recording sessions for the album had taken place in January, 1969 first At Twickenham Film Studios and later in the basement and on the roof of their Apple headquarters in London’s Savile Row.Back Next
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