The Beatles Band
Written by Admin Musician Online on December 1, 2009 – 1:37 pm -THE BEATLES
The Beatles were a reputed English rock band, formed during 1960 in Liverpool. They were the most commercially hit band in history of popular music. Three boys from Liverpool named George Harrison, John Lennon, and Paul McCartney joined together during the time of cultural liquidity during 1960s with bit players Pete Best and Stu Sutcliffe. They absorbed and reprised British pop history and American Rock and Roll to that point, and played 5 amphetamine fueled sets during a night in Hamburg, the port town of Germany and then came back to Liverpool to find their perfect manager Mr. Brian Epstein and Producer George martin. They released the first super hit single in U.K., “Love Me Do/ P.s I Love You” during the month of October in 1962.
From the year 1962, the band had John Lennon who is well known for his vocals and rhythm guitar, George Harrison for his vocals and lead guitar, Ringo Starr for vocals and drums and Paul McCartney for his vocals and bass guitar. Rooted in skiffle and the rock and roll of 1950s, the band worked in different genres later which ranged from psychedelic pop to folk rock. They incorporated classical elements innovatively to create a new genre of music in their own style. Their popularity emerged as “Beatlemania”, which transformed when their songwriting increased n sophistication. The group was considered to be a collection of progressive apotheoses and their influence got extended to the cultural and social revolutions during 1960s.
With 5 piece line-up of McCartney, Pete Best (drums), Stuart Sutcliffe (Bass guitar), Lennon and Harrison, the Beatles increased their popularity in their city of Liverpool and in Hamburg over 3 year period from the year 1960. Then Stuart Sutcliffe left the band in 1961 and Pete Best was substituted by Starr the consequent year. Brian Epstein, who was a music store owner, molded this band into a professional group and he was the manager of the group and the group became popular further by the efforts of the George martin, the creative producer of the band. The Beatles got big success in mainstream of UK during late 1962, with the first hit single “Love Me Do”. After they gained international property in the next year, they toured worldwide till the year 1966, after which they got back to recording studio till their split up in 1970. All of them got succeeded in their musical career independently. Starr and McCartney remained active, Lennon was killed during the year 1980, and Harrison also got expired due to cancer in the year 2001. The Beatles produced the best rock albums including their greatest masterpiece Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club band (1967).
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