Four men, one legendary band. The Beatles are one of the most influential bands in rock and roll history. They stretched music to its boundaries, experimenting with it throughout their ten years of existence, and twelve albums. The Beatles are a band from Liverpool England, but they began their journey to fame as the Quarrymen in 1956. With name changes such as Johnny, the Moondogs and The Silver Beatles, the group adopted the name The Beatles in 1960's. The band was established by John Lennon, and later added was Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. Other original members were Pete Best, and Stuart Sutcliffe. However, Best and Sutcliffe were not marked as one of the Fab Four. With trial and fail, The Beatles became a hard-working …show more content…
They played classic American rock and roll on a multiple British Broadcasting Corporation radio programs. In these months, fascination with the Beatles had risen. Later that year, The Beatles made a couple of appearances on British television, creating a new word for the phenomenon: Beatlemania. (“Beatlemania in the 1960’s”) In early 1964, after many appearances on American television, the same sensation arose in the United States and generated the famed British Invasion of Beatles imitators from the United Kingdom. The Beatles in that same year, arrived in New York on the fourth of February. It was the first time they had ever been in the United States. There was a mere 3,000 fans waiting for them when they first stepped off their plane onto the American soil. Only two days after landing, they appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show with an estimated 73 million people watching on television. This was about forty percent of the U.S. population that tuned in to watch The Beatles performance. Sullivan had booked the Beatles for two more appearances within that same month. The boys had their first show in the United States on February 11 at the Coliseum in Washington, D.C. A mere 20,000 fans attended. The next day, they gave two back-to-back performances at New York’s Carnegie Hall. The police had to be contacted …show more content…
While they had a heavy impact on people in the 1960’s, they still continue to influence people and impact them today with their original style and sound. The Beatles brought a new music to people of all ages. They took everything amazing about Rock and Roll and made it their own with their style. They were extremely talented with raving success with musical talent that was a pure phenomenon. The Beatles were not just another band, but they became the start of a whole new generation of music. This music was full of energy, with rapid changes and growth that kept people interested. They were one of the few artists that were the best and most popular at what they were doing. With success unmatched by anyone, The Beatles, as John Lennon would say were “more popular than Jesus”. They will always be remembered as one of the biggest success stories in
The Beatles were formed in London and consisted of four prime members: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison. When they first came out from Liverpool to America, they gave a clean look toward people by wearing suits and trimmed haircuts. The Rolling Stones, also formed in London later on, also consisted of four prime members in the beginning: Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood, Keith Richards, and Charlie Watts. Throughout their career, they let they hair grow long and wear whatever they wanted including concerts, giving off the “I don’t care” look. The Beatles gave a clean impression, perceived as perfect school boys while The Rolling Stones gave a dirty image to the public and didn’t care about other’s opinion and rebelled against “the man”. As t...
The band was not officially formed until 1960, but the boys all met at different points during the 1950’s. (“Beatlemania”) It all began when John Lennon met Paul McCartney playing at a Village. Paul surprised Lennon with his ability to remember all the lyrics to “Twenty Flight Rock” and also his commendable guitar skills. Very soon after Paul was invited to the band, the duo met George Harrison on a bus on the way to school. George had taken a notice that Paul McCartney kept a guitar on the school bus, and soon they became friends. Over time, Paul and George convinced John Lennon to allow George into the Beatles. This is right around the time that the success of the Beatles really took off. Slowly, around the late 50’s and early 60’s, the Beatles (only known then as the Quarrymen) started to build up popularity around Li...
The Beatles consisted of four talented men: Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Richard Starkey. They had met at all different times and had one thing in common. They all loved music. McCartney, Lennon and Harrison all played guitar and Starkey, also known as Ringo Starr, played the drums. They started out as The Quarry Men, but eventually they changed the name to The Beatles. They played a lot together over the years and at many different places. They started out as a “teenybopper” band, as Russell Gibb put it. They were like the Jonas Brothers of the fifties. When they made their way to America, they became more popular. Gibb also noted that they grew up with their fans. They did well all through the sixties, but around 1965 tension gre...
The Beatles are known, respectively, as the fathers of modern pop music. After their first #1 hit “Please Please Me” was released in 1963 the Beatles were set in motion to become one of the most influential groups of musicians to ever rock our world. With over forty-nine records, 37 #1’s, and thirty- four number one albums (the highest amount of any band in history), there is no denying that they made a monumental ripple in the musical world. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr surprisingly all come from humble beginnings in a town that, until their superstardom, was barely noticed on the map. Liverpool, being kn...
The Beatles are an iconic English rock band and are widely regarded as the “foremost and most influential act of the rock era” (Unterberg). Formed in Liverpool in 1960, the Beatles were comprised of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, with Stuart Sutcliffe on bass guitar in January and Pete
Well if we are going to figure this out, why don't we start at the beginning? Well, One day in the year of 1955, one young man gets this crazy idea; his idea was to create a band that played music that was similar to what American’s Elvis Presley, and Buddy Holly were making (The Beatles). That young man was John Lennon (Glassman). His group was named the Quarrymen (Glassman). The original members were John on the microphone, Rob Davis on the banjo, Eric Griffiths playing guitar, Pete Shotten playing the washboard(The Beatles), and Ivan Vaughan on the bass (Glassman).
It seems as though it’s impossible to provide an analogy to a group today that accurately expresses what the Beatles were to their hayday. I guess that the closest thing to the Beatles of 2014 is One Direction, British and super popular, but the Beatles were obviously much bigger and much more influential than any other pop culture icon in recorded history. The question is though, why were the Beatles so popular that they defined a genre and generation of music? Why did they have such a strong influence on pop culture that they still remain popular today? The Beatles have a distinct sound, but they also didn’t stick to this image that seems to be so popular in bands of today. They let their music change with their mood, and the mood of the time they wrote the song in. This, instead of causing them to seem instable and fragmented, made them even more defined. Their songs are different from each other in a way that keeps it exciting. Hearing the same song over and over again from one artist causes their fame to die out quickly, in the same way that no matter how much you like a song, i...
The Beatles are a band that has made a huge impact into our world. The impact of the Beatles influenced many things. Such things would be types of music, the people, and a world movement.
They rarely sang other people's music because they had so much content. Many other groups which followed were inspired by The Beatles. They set trends for music and style for many years. Over the years, The Beatles have made a huge impact on music and music history because they were willing to try things that were new and different. They will never be forgotten (News, Daily).
The Beatles was an English rock music band, which was formed in 1960 in Liverpool. Its members were: Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison. Its members were widely regarded as the most influential act of the era of rock. Rooted in beat, 1950s rock and roll, and skiffle, the Beatles later tried a number of musical genres such as pop ballads, Indian music, hard rock, and psychedelia, while innovatively incorporating classical elements. In the early sixties, their huge popularity emerged as “Beatlemania.” However, as Beatles’ music became more sophisticated, under the leadership of McCartney and Lennon, they were seen as an embodiment of ideals propagated by the counterculture
(All Music) In “The Beatles” career, they had much success, it was believed that this success came from their creative lyrics, their harmonic vocals, and their friendly personality. It also helped that they were one of the first groups to include more original music on their records than covers of songs written by other people. (All Music) The Beatles started out with 3 original members; John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison.
To understand how The Beatles got so big, you have to trace back their roots and see where it all began. Going back to the birth of the band members, we are taken to Liverpool in England. Liverpool was regarded as a very dirty and low place by many of the people that liv...
The Liverpool rock group known as the Beatles began to form during the year of 1960. The band was made up of four members which included John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. Although the Beatles are known as a major influential part of music today, the early years of their career were a difficult. They suffered the struggles of discouragement, being rejected by labels, and changing band members throughout the beginning. However, things began to change during the Beatlemania period. The Tipping Point is described by Malcolm Gladwell as a time of “critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point. This theory can be applied to the Beatles during their rise to fame period known as Beatlemania. There
Before the Beatles were the Beatles, they were just normal musicians. John Lennon the person in charge of the band in the 50’s called the Quarry Men met Paul McCartney on July 6, 1957, where both musicians are performing in Skiffle Groups. After hearing Paul play at the concert John’s manager asked Paul if he would like to join the Quarry Men, Paul accepted his offer. Many musicians tried out to join the Quarry Men, however none of them made it. On February 6, 1958 George Harrison tried out by playing Raunchy and John made him become the newest member of the group. The members of the Quarry Men are; “John, Paul and George, with the addition of Johns Friend from art college, Stu Sutcliffe and a guitarist named Pete Best” (The Beatles pg. 1). They went off to Germany to get a better chance to become known and famous. While they are in Germany, Stu Sutcliffe decides to go back to college to get back into art which he is in love with and be with Astrid which he met in Germany. The members remaining in the Quarry Men group renamed their group and now their group calling it Silver Beatles and returned to Liverpool. As the group thought their luck was terrible, a young record storeowner in the late 1961, with the name of Brian Epstein, noticed the Beatles with their great musicians skills, he thought they have something unique to them (History of The Beatles pg. 1). The Silver Beatles held a tough ima...
The Beatles are an English rock band who originated in Liverpool, England in 1960. They were a huge success locally even before they began to make records in the United Kingdom. The band was comprised of four members: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. They owe much of their early, quick success to manager Brian Epstein who molded them into a professional act, and producer George Martin who enhanced their musical potential. Early in the 1960’s, their widespread fame in the United Kingdom was first referred to as “Beatlemania”. Eventually, they acquired the nickname “the Fab Four” as Beatlemania grew rapidly in Britain. By 1964, the Fab Four made their way overseas and officially became international pop stars. The Beatles were the leading factor in the “British Invasion” of the United States pop market.