Released in March 1963, the album reached number one in the UK charts. He started running for eleven of the twelve studio albums the Beatles released in the United Kingdom by the number of 1970 at once. The group's third single, "From Me to You", released in April and topped the charts hits. It began almost unbroken series of seventeen British number one singles from the band, including all but one of them published over the next six years. Upon his release in August, the group's fourth single, "She Loves You," was the best selling record in Britain so far has sold three- quarters of a million copies in less than four weeks. It became their first single to sell one million copies and remains the best selling record in Britain until 1978 when he overcame "Mull of Kintyre "performed by Paul McCartney and his post-Beatles band Wings. The popularity of the music of the Beatles brings with it greater press attention. They responded with an attitude, irreverent rogue who question what is expected of pop musicians and inspired more interest.
icons Beatles''goutte-T "logo, from sketches suddenly by retailers and designers Ivor Arbiter instruments, also made its debut in 1963. Logo first used on the front of Starr drum bass, and Epstein Starr bought the store Arbiter London. The band toured the UK three times in the first half of this year: four-week tour starts in February tour of three weeks of March and May to June Their popularity, a frenetic cult holds, has been dubbed "Beatlemania." Although not presented as a tour leader, they were eclipsed by other acts, including Tommy Roe and Chris Montez Roy Orbison, American artists who have established great popularity in England. performance everywhere, both on tour and show-off many in Britain, was greeted with wild enthusiasm by screaming fans. Police considered necessary to use water pipes at high pressure for crowd control, and it is inParliament debate on thousands of police officers put themselves in danger to protect the group. In late October, the five-day tour of Sweden to see the band business overseas for the first time since the Hamburg area. Return to England, they were greeted at Heathrow Airport in heavy rain by thousands of fans at the " scene similar to the shark-feeding frenzy, "attended by some fifty journalists and photographers and television camera crews BBC. The next day the Beatles began a new tour in the United Kingdom, scheduled for six weeks. Now, they denied headliners.
The British Invasion
Release of the Beatles in the United States were first delayed for nearly a year whenCapitol Records, EMI's American subsidiary, refused to issue either "Please Please Me" or "From Me to You". Negotiations with an independent label in the United States, causing the release of several singles, but a problem with fees and ridiculous hairstyles of the Beatles song "Moptop" constitute additional barriers. After Capitol had begun to disturb the material, not releasing discs in their original configuration, they are different from the U.S. album compiled from various recording tape, and publish their own songs as a single choice . success in the American charts came suddenly after a show on British Beatlemania thetimes triggered a strong demand, peak-Capitol release "I Want to Hold Your Hand" in December 1963. The first American group is scheduled to take place a few weeks later.
When the Beatles left England on February 7, 1964, a four thousand supporters gathered at Heathrow, waving and screaming that the plane took off "I Want to Hold Your Hand" has sold 2.6 million copies in the U.S. for two weeks in advance, but the group was still worried about how they will be accepted. In New York John F. Kennedy Airport they were welcomed by other aggressive, a three thousand people. They gave their first live performance on U.S. TV two days later on The Ed Sullivan Show, watched by about 74 million viewers, more than 40 percent of the U.S. population. The next morning, a newspaper wrote that The Beatles could not take the song in the Atlantic, but days later, their first U.S. concert saw Beatlemania erupted at the rear of Washington Coliseum in New York the next day they met another strong reception at Carnegie Hall. The group appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show second time a week before returning to England on February 22. During the week of April 4, The Beatles held twelve positions on Billboard Hot 100 singles, including the big five. That same week, a third American LP joined two already in circulation, the third reached the first or second place in the U.S. album charts. the band's popularity has generated unprecedented interest in British music, and a number of other actions, the United Kingdom and then make their own American debut, managed to tour for three years in the future in so-called British Invasion. hairdressing Beatles' extraordinary measures for the time and much ridiculed by adults, is widely adopted and became a symbol of youth culture to develop.
The Beatles perform on an international tour in June. Thirty-two concerts for nineteen days in Denmark, Holland, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand, they have been diligently at each location. Starr was in the hospital after a tonsillectomy for the first half of the tour, sitting andJimmie Nicol on drums. In August they returned to the U.S., with concert tours and 32-3 towns. Arouse intense interest once again, the draw for one month tour between ten and twenty thousand fans for each show thirty minutes in the cities of San Francisco to New York. However, their music can not be heard. At this stage of the amplification at the time was simple compared to modern facilities and a small group Vox amplifiers struggle to compete with the volume of sound produced by the screaming fans. Forced to admit that neither they nor their audience can hear the details of their performance, the group has grown increasingly bored with the regular visit.
At the end of August their tour was presented by Bob Dylan in New York at the initiative of journalist Al Aronowitz. Visit the group to their hotel room, Dylan introduced them to marijuana. Music historian Jonathan Gould shows the importance of music and culture of this meeting, before the fanbase of each of the musicians were "regarded as living in two distinct subcultures in the world": the public database Dylan " college kids with an artistic or intellectual inclination, a dawn political and social idealism, and a bit arty, "as opposed to 'core audience of the" Beatles of children really teenyboppers "in high school or the elementary school whose lives are really wrapped up in pop culture marketing television, radio, pop records, fan magazines, and fashion teenage Them. considered idolatrous, not idealistic. "Within six months of meetings," Lennon will make a note in which he openly imitated nasal drone Dylan, plucked fragile vocals and introspective persona. "In one year, Dylan will be" continued, with the help of a group of five musicians and Fender Stratocaster electric guitar, shaking the authenticity of the permanent population monkey on his back, "" the difference between Public folk and rock that have nearly evaporated "and the Beatles 'public' showing signs of growth."
A Hard Day's Night, Beatles for Sale Help! Rubber Soul
Capitol Records 'lack of interest during 1963 was not granted, and a competitor, United Artists Records, prompting United Artists' film division to offer the contract the Beatles film in the hope that it will lead to recording contract. Directed by Richard Lester, A Hard Day's Night was the participation of the group for six weeks in March-April 1964, they play their own role in a film mockumentary noisy phenomenon of the "Beatles. The film's premiere in London and New York in July and August, respectively, and an international success. Examiner observer, Penelope Gilliatt, noted that "the way the Beatles are just there, and that in times that are clogged with self-explanation makes very welcome .. It also makes a natural comedian." According to Allmusic, the soundtrack album accompanying it, A Hard Day's Night, to see the Beatles "really come into their own as a band all different influences on the two albums were gathered in his home bright, happy, full of. guitar tone. "That" guitar sounds "sound, especially the product of the 12-string electric Rickenbacker Harrison prototype given to him by the manufacturer, which began on record. Harrison ringing 12-string inspired Roger McGuinn, who received his Rickenbacker and use it to develop the brand ofThe Byrds sound.
Beatles for sale, the fourth album by this band, saw the emergence of a serious conflict between commercialism and creativity. Recorded between August and October 1964, the album was intended to continue the format specified by A Hard Day's Night, which, unlike the first two albums band, already contain versions without coverage. Recognizing the challenges posed by international travel continues to attempt a band song, Lennon admits, "The materials that are a hell of a problem." Six covers a vast repertoire included in this album. Released in early December, eight issues of self-writing still stand out, shows the growing maturity of the material produced by the Lennon-McCartney partnership.
In April 1965, Lennon and Harrison dentist enriched their coffee with LSD, but they were his guests for dinner [93] L '. Two days later deliberately experiment with drugs, followed by Starr on one occasion. McCartney was reluctant to try it, but finally did in 1966, and later became the first Beatle to talk openly The controversy erupted in June 1965, when Elizabeth II appointed the four Beatles Order of the British Empire (MBE), after Prime Minister Harold Wilson was appointed. them for the price. In protest-compliance at the time was primarily given to military veterans and civic leaders, some conservative MBE recipients to their own emblem.
U.S. trailer for the help! with (back) Harrison, Paul McCartney, Lennon and Starr (mostly invisible)
On 15 August, the third visit of the Beatles U.S. concert opened with the first big stage of history when they appeared before a crowd of 55,600 at Shea Stadium in New York. Nine other successful concerts followed in other U.S. cities. Towards the end of the tour group is introduced with Elvis Presley, on the basis of basic musical influences of the group, who invited them to his house. Presley and the band playing guitar in his living room, crowded, talks about the music industry and exchanged stories. In September, the launch of American Saturday cartoon series starring the Beatles morning and taken burlesque antics Night's A Hard Day's. Original episodes appeared during the next two years, and broadcast reruns in 1969.
Rubber Soul, was released in early December, was hailed by critics as a major step forward in the bands musicBiographer maturity and complexity and music critic Ian MacDonald notes that Rubber Soul, The Beatles' back a sense of direction that began to avoid them at a later stage of works for sale onBeatles After Help!. The foray into the world of classical music with flute and strings, introducing the sitar on Rubber Soul "Norwegian Wood (This bird has flown)," marked the development beyond the traditional boundaries of rock music. This album also saw the collaborative songwriting of Lennon and McCartney increasingly equipped with different compositions of each (if they continue to share official credit). achieve their themes more as well, including the most complex aspects of romance and other concerns. As they grow more clever lyrics, fans have begun to explore a deeper meaning. There is speculation that the "Norwegian Wood" could refer to marijuana. In 2003, Rolling Stone Magazine "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" Rubber Soul ranked number five,and the album is described by Allmusic today as a "hard folk rock classic." According to both Lennon and McCartney, however, was "just another album" Record engineer Norman Smith saw clear signs of a growing conflict within the group during Soulsessions rubber. Smith said later that "the confrontation between John and Paul became clear "and" as far as Paul is concerned, George can do no right.
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