the beatles
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The Beatls – the great four!
The Beatles were a British rock-band from Liverpool, which was formed in 1960. The group consisted of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
Paul McCartney
John Lennon
Ringo Star
George Harrison
The group became one of the most famous rock-n-roll bands in the history. During 8 years they had a big impact and changed the rock-n-roll and the character of all music. John Lennon was the band as founder. The music which was performed by The Beatles was the skiffle music which was a special rhythm and was based on jazz, British folkl and country. These kinds of music were extremely popular in England.
First composition of group
At the beginning the band was famous in Liverpool only, but afterwards in 1960 in Germany they were noticed by Tony Sheridan, who was a very famous rock-n-roll performer that days. Sheridan and The Beatles wrote their own album "Tony Sheridan and The Beatles"
"The Beatles" performed in club Cavern Club, Liverpool, in 1961. George Harrison on a scene in
December, 1962, Hamburg, Germany.
After the joint project with Sheridan the band was in the Brayan Epstein's interest list. Since the 1961 he became their manager. After Stuart Satkliff's leaving, the band contained only four members.The Beatles' squad changed once again after recording company's request to change the drums Pitt Best to continue cooperating with the band.
Brian Epstein, first manager of The Beatles. Participant of The Beatles group Pete
Best: "I am not sorry about anything"
"Love me do" which was the first Beatles' single was recorded in December 1962. Brayan Epstein made a risky step by buying first 10 000 copies. But it was a success - a huge number of buyers were attracted. The Beatles' first single album was recorded in early 1963. The bande became extramely famous by 1964.
John is the soloist at "Love Me Do" harmonica
October 13, 1963, the Beatles performed at the London Palladium Hall ". Their concert was broadcasted on television and put together about 15 million viewers. On the 4’th of November the same year the Beatles performed in the Prince of Wales Theatre. Their performance was mostly a Royal variety show. The Queen Mother expressed her admiration when the Beatles performed the song "Till There Was You".
On October 13, (1963) "Beatles", London hall «Palladium».
On November 4, (1963) "Bitls", Prinze Uelskogo's theater.
Soon, they released their second album "the Beatles" With The Beatles ", which broke all existing records for the number of preliminary inquiries on purchase. Popularity came after the single "I wanna Hold Your Hand" at the United States at the end of 1963. In January 1964, in the United States was released the album "Meet the Beatles!", which received the "gold" status in February. The Quartet went on tour performances in the United States, where they gave three concerts, and twice participated in the popular TV program "the Ed Sullivan show. "The Beatles "were named best songwriters since Schubert
In June 1967 the Beatles is concert was broadcasted all around the world. They also were the first band, whose presentation was seen by 400 million people. This great success has never been reached by any musical band ever. Shortly after this triumphant success there was the tragic death of "Fifth Beatle", the Group's Manager, Brian Epstein. Business of the group went down.
The band recorded one of it's best songs named 'Hey, Jude' in 1969.This single got in the top-lists all around the world so 6 000 000 copies were sold.Another album, "Let it be", was recorded in 1970 and included old records of the band.In April of 1970 Paul McCartney officially announced that "The Beatles" was not a band any more. The greatest band in history disintegrated. McCartney tried to reunion the band in 1979. But he had never done because of John Lennon's death in 1980…
