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1) Don't Be Cruel / Hound Dog 1956
2) Love Me Tender 1956
3) Heartbreak Hotel 1956
4) Jailhouse Rock / Treat Me Nice 1957
5) All Shook Up 1957
6) (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear / Loving You 1957
7) Are You Lonesome Tonight 1960
8) It's Now Or Never 1960
9) Don't / I Beg Of You 1958
10) Stuck On You 1960
11) Too Much 1957
12) Return To Sender 1962
13) I Want You, I Need You, I Love You 1956
14) Surrender 1961
15) Good Luck Charm 1962
16) Hard Headed Woman 1958
17) Wear My Ring Around Your Neck 1958
18) A Big Hunk O' Love 1959
19) Suspicious Minds 1969

20) Can't Help Falling In Love 1962
21) Burning Love 1972
22) One Night 1958
23) Crying In The Chapel 1965
24) (Now And Then There's) A Fool Such As I 1959
25) In The Ghetto 1969
26) (You're The) Devil In Disguise 1963
27) Love Me 1957
28) I Got Stung 1958
29) I Need Your Love Tonight 1959
30) Don't Cry Daddy 1970
31) The Wonder Of You 1970
32) She's Not You 1962
33) Little Sister 1961
34) If I Can Dream 1969
35) My Wish Came True 1959
36) (Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame 1961
37) One Broken Heart For Sale 1963
38) Ask Me 1975
39) Promised Land 1974

40) Fame And Fortune 1960
41) I Feel So Bad 1961
42) Steamroller Blues / Fool 1973
43) Bossa Nova Baby 1964
44) You Don't Have To Say You Love Me / Patch It Up 1970
45) I'm Yours 1965
46) Puppet On A String 1971
47) Kentucky Rain 1970
48) Ain't That Loving You Baby 1964
49) Follow That Dream 1962
50) Way Down 1977

1970 – present

1970
Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Starr all the solo albums released in 1970. Other albums followed another, sometimes with one or more of the other. Ringo Starr (1973) is the only album includes compositions and performances by all four, albeit on separate songs. Collaboration with Starr, Harrison staged concert for Bangladesh in New York in August 1971 with Shankar sitar maestroRavi. In addition to a jam session was published in 1974 (later smuggling as a toot and snore in 74), Lennon and McCartney never recorded together again.
Two sets of double-LP of Beatles hits more compiled by Allen Klein, 1962-1966 and 1967-1970, which was published in 1973, initially under the impression Apple Records. Commonly known as the Red Cross and Blue Album album, respectively, each obtained certificationin U.S. multi-platinum and platinum certifications in the UK. Between 1976 and 1982, EMI / Capitol released a compilation album of Beatles wave "without any intervention of members of the band. The only one to feature all new material is the Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl (1977). The first concert recording, which was officially released by the group, it contains a choice of two shows they played during the Beatles in 1964 and 1965 U.S. tours. After the international album of the original UK on CD in 1987, EMI deleted the compilation of this group, including the Hollywood Bowl a record of its catalog.
The Beatles music and that eternal glory commercially exploited in other ways, outside the control of members of the creative group. All this and World War II (1976) is a documentary film that combines orthodox WWII newsreels with songs of the Beatles cover "by two dozen recording artists alike. Beatlemania Broadway musical, nostalgia magazine with four live musicians as the Beatles, opened in early 1977 and was very popular, with spinning tour of five different production. The Beatles tried unsuccessfully to block the release of 1977 Live! Club-Star Hamburg, Germany, 1962. Regardless issued albums compiled recordings made during the group's residence in Hamburg, attached to the base of the machine with a microphone recording unique. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978), a film Music, with the Bee Gees and Peter Frampton, is a commercial failure and the "artistic chaos." In 1979, the group sued the manufacturer of Beatlemania was settled for several million dollars in damages. "People only think of the Beatles' music to the public domain," said Harrison. "You can not just steal the material for the" Beatles ".
1980
Lennon was gunned down Dec. 8, 1980 in New York. In a personal tribute, Harrison wrote new lyrics for "All Those Years Ago," a song about time with the Beatles recorded the month before Lennon's death. By McCartney and his wife, Linda, contributing backing vocals, and Starr on drums, the song was overdubbed with new lyrics and released as a single in May 1981. Tribute itself [205] McCartney, "Here Today" which appeared on his album Tug war in April 1982. In 1987, Harrison Cloud Nine album, "When We Was Fab", a song about the days of Beatlemania.
The Beatles were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988, their first year of eligibility. Harrison and Starr attended the ceremony with Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono and his two son, Julian and Sean. McCartney has refused to participate, issued a statement saying: "After 20 years, the Beatles still have some differences of business hopefully be resolved now Unfortunately, they did not. So I feel like a complete hypocrite waving and smiling with them at a meeting of forgery. The next year, EMI / Capitol settle the dispute has lasted for decades by the Beatles on royalties, paving the way for a commercial complex of unreleased material.

1990
Live at the BBC, the first official version of the Beatles' appearance which has not yet put in 17 years, appeared in 1994. In the same year, McCartney, Harrison and Starr collected for the Project Anthology, pointe work began in late 1960 by Neil Aspinall. Initially, the road manager of The Beatles and their personal assistant, Aspinall began collecting material for a documentary film after he became director of Apple Corps in 1968. Long and Winding Road, that his story called temporary Aspinall Beatles, it is stored, but as executive producer for the project Anthology Aspinall able to finish the job. Documenting the history of the Beatles with the group's own words, the project has not been placed previously published numerous recordings of the Beatles, McCartney, Harrison and Starr also added new vocal and instrumental pieces for two demo songs recorded by Lennon in the 1970s. During the years 1995 and 1996, the project was to produce TV series in five games, eight volumes, and three videos of two CD box set. The two pieces of Lennon demo, "Free as a Bird" and "Real Love", each released as singles. Package CD with artwork by Klaus Voormann, creator of the album cover of Revolver in 1966. Commercially News and successful TV series was seen by 400 million people worldwide.

2000s
, A compilation album hit number one all the Beatles' British and American, which was released November 13, 2000. He became the fastest selling album of all time, with 3.6 million copies sold the first week and more than $ 12 million in three weeks worldwide. This is the first hit chart in at least 28 countries, including Great Britain and the United States. In April 2009, they sold 31 million copies worldwide, and is the highest selling albums over the decades in the United States.
Harrison died of lung cancer Nov. 29, 2001. McCartney and Starr among the musicians who perform at Concert for George, which was organized by Eric Clapton and Harrison's widow Olivia. Price who was at the Royal Albert Hall for the first anniversary of the death of Harrison. As the song he wrote for The Beatles and his own solo career, a concert of the festival of classical music, including ofIndian, Harrison's interest that influenced the band. In 2003, Let It Be ... Naked, redesigned version of the album with production to oversee McCartney, was released to mixed reviews. A major difference is the omission of the original string arrangement of origin. He was a top ten hit in Britain and the United States.
As a soundtrack for the Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas stage review Love Beatles, George Martin and son Giles remixed and blended with 130 records in the group to create "how to relive the life of the Beatles music all" in very thick. "The event created in June 2006, and the album Love, released in November. Attend the first anniversary of the show, McCartney and Starr were interviewed onLarry King Live with Ono and Olivia Harrison. Always In 2007, rumors have circulated that McCartney had hoped at the end "Now and Then", the third Lennon demo to work on during the Anthology sessions. This will be credited as a "composition / McCartney Lennon" by adding a new paragraph, and new features drum tracks by Starr and Harrison played guitar recordings archive.
Lawyer Beatles sued in March 2008 to prevent the spread of unreleased recordings purportedly made during the first performance with the band at The Starr Hamburg Star-Club in 1962. In November, McCartney discussed the hope that the "Carnival of Light", an experimental recording 14 minutes the Beatles at Abbey Road Studios in 1967, will receive an official release . McCartney as a charity concert April 4, 2009 at Radio City Music Hall, the David Lynch with guest artists, including Starr The Beatles:. Rock Band music video game Rock Band in the style of the series, was released September 9, 2009. The same day, twelve studio albums remastered version of the group's most original Magical Mystery Tour and then compile Masterswere published.

Final tourand break-up (1966–1970)

In June 1966, the album yesterday and one day a compilation made by Capitol Records for the U.S. market, causing a stir with the cover, which depicts the smiling butcher Beatles dressed in suits, accompanied by raw meat and maimed plastic doll. A popular but apocryphal story is that it is intended as a satirical response to the way Capitol had "butchered" their albums. Thousands of copies of the album has a new cover pasted over the original, one bald "first state" copy made $ 10,500 at auction in December 2005. During a tour in the Philippines for months after the rage yesterday and today, the Beatles did not deliberately abuse the first lady, Imelda Marcos, who expected that the group will attend a breakfast reception the presidential palace. When presented with the invitation, Epstein politely declined on behalf of the group because it has the discretion to accept an official invitation from the group quickly found that the Marcos regime was unaccustomed to taking no for an answer. The resulting unrest threatened the group and they fled the country with the level of difficulty.
Almost immediately after their return home, they face severe blow to religious and social conservatives (and the Ku Klux Klan) above comment was made by John Lennon in an interview with British journalist Maureen Cleave in March. Lennon had offered his opinion thatChristianity is dying and that the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus now." Comments virtually unnoticed in Britain, the United States but when the teen fan magazine printing Agenda five months later, on the eve of the last U.S. tour, he created controversy in the "Bible belt" of South America. South Africa is also forbidden to play Beatles' records, a ban that would last until 1971. Epstein has openly criticized the agenda, said they took the words out of context Lennon, Lennon and the press conference noted: "If I say television is more popular than Jesus, I could get away with it. " Lennon said he was just referring to how others saw the Beatles, but "if you want me to apologize, if that makes you happy, then okay, I'm sorry."
Revolver and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Rubber Soul marked a big step; Revolver, released in August 1966 one week before the last tour group, scored another. Pitchfork identified as "the sound of the band grew to be confident" and "redefine what is expected of popular music." Described by Gould as "woven with a circular pattern, inversion, and inversion," Revolver with songs that are very sophisticated and expanded repertoire of musical styles ranging from classic to innovative string arrangements psychedelic rock. Leaving a group photo that has become the norm, a closed circuit designed by Klaus Voormann, a friend of the band since their days in Hamburg, "it's cool, arty, black and white collage of caricatures of the Beatles in the style pen and ink of Aubrey Beardsley linked. "The album begins with the single" Paperback Writer ", backed with" Rain. "Beatles filmed a short promotional film for the second song, described as" among the first true music video "posted on Top of the Pops and The Ed Sullivan Show.

Among the most experimental track is Revolver "Tomorrow Never Knows", the words of John Lennon's withdrawal from Timothy Leary, the psychedelic experience: a manual based on Tibetan Book of the Dead. The creation of the song that involved a deck eight bands located around the building a recording studio, each guarded by an engineer or a member of the band, which varies randomly from a tape movement loop while Martin creates a composite record by sampling the incoming data. McCartney's "Eleanor Rigby" significant use of the octet string, which was described as "a true hybrid, depending on the style or genre of the song is not recognized." Harrison has evolved as a composer and three compositions won a place in the record. In 2003, Revolver, Rolling Stone ranked as the third greatest album of all time. On the ensuing U.S. tour, the Beatles played the song does not exist. Last Event , in Candlestick Park, San Francisco, August 29, is the last concert business. This marked the end of the period of four years is dominated by tourism, which includes over 1,400 international concert appearances.
Freed from the burden of travel, the desire to increase the band to experiment as they recorded Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, from December 1966. Emerick recalled, "The Beatles insisted that everything Sgt. Pepper We must be different. Microphone at the bottom right of the instrument brass bell and helmet into a microphone attached to the violin, we used. primitive giant oscillator to vary the speed of the instruments and voices and we had the band cut into pieces and stuck upside down and around the wrong way. "Part of" A Day in the Life "requires an orchestra of forty pieces. Nearly seven hundred hours of studio time devoted to the session. They first produce a non-double-album single "Strawberry Fields Forever" / "Penny Lane" in February 1967, Sgt. Pepperfollowed in June . The complexity of the music from files created by using technology to record only four tracks, shocked contemporary artists trying to beat the Beatles. For the Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson in the midst of personal crisis and struggled to complete the ambitious Smile, listen to "Strawberry Fields" is a blow and he soon abandoned all attempts at competition. [135] [136] Sgt. Peppermet with critical acclaim. In 2003, Rolling Stone was ranked number one among the company "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" and is widely considered a masterpiece. Jonathan Gould described as
work of rich, sustained, and the abundance of genius and originality of collaboration surprisingly bold ambition to dramatically expand opportunities and raise expectations of what popular music listening experience can be recorded. Based on this perception, Sgt. Pepper became the catalyst for an explosion of mass enthusiasm for the album-rock format that will revolutionize aesthetics and economics of business documents in a way that goes far beyond previous pop explosion triggered by the phenomenon of Elvis in 1956 and the phenomenon of Beatlemania in 1963.
Sgt. Pepper was the first great pop album includes full lyrics, which is printed on the back cover. These words are intense analysis of materials; fans speculate, for example, that "the famous MK" in "being for the benefit of Mr. Kite! may in fact be a fiction writer Franz Kafka's surreal. American literary critic and English professor Richard Poirierwrote essay "Learning the Beatles," in which he observed that his students are "listening to the music group with a level of participation that he, as a professor of literature, can only envy. " Poirier identify he calls "allusive mixed" material: "It is not wise to never assume that they only do one thing or express yourself in style ... just a sort of feeling about a subject is not enough .. there is a unique feeling often leads to exist within. alternatives that seem contradictory. "McCartney said at the time," We write songs. We know what we mean by them, less than a week but others say something, and you can not deny it ... you put your own meaning in terms of its own. our song "Sgt. Pepper album cover's is also very complicated because of great interest and research in depth. The mustache worn by the band quickly became a feature of hippie style. Cultural historian Jonathan Harris describes "a parody of a military uniform with bright colors" as the conscious aspect " anti-authoritarian and anti-establishment".
On 25 June the band played their latest single, "All You Need Is Love" for viewers around the world in our world (International TV special), the first direct link to global television. It appears in the middle of the Summer of Love, the song was adopted as the anthem flower power. Two months later, this group has suffered losses to start their career in the chaos. Once introduced by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, they went to Bangor to retire from Transcendental Meditation. During the retreat, Epstein-deputy Peter Brown called to tell them that Epstein was dead. Epstein decided accidental overdose death of CHD, but it is widely rumored that the suicide note was found among his possessions. Epstein was in a fragile emotional state, stress from personal problems and circumstances to work with the Beatles. He fears that the band has not been possible to extend its management contract, will end in October, according satisfied with supervision on the business problem. He is particularly concerned Seltaeb, the company that manages the Beatles' merchandising rights in the United States. Epstein's death left the group and disorientation concern for the future. Lennon later said: "I have no misconceptions about our ability to do anything but play music and I'm afraid." He also saw the return of the death of Epstein as a sign of the beginning of the end for the group: "I know we're in trouble then ... I thought we fuckin 'got it today.
Magical Mystery Tour, The White Album and Yellow Submarine
Magical Mystery Tour "soundtrack to the television movie that will" Beatles, appears as a disk to play the six double-track extended (MOU) in early December 1967. United States, six songs have been issued to the same titled LP that also included songs by the group's new single. Allmusic said U. S. Magical Mystery Tour "is a psychedelic sound is very much in the vein Sgt. Pepper, Spacia and even in some regions (especially the sound collages of "I Am The Walrus"), and calls the five songs were destroyed between 1967 and the band singles "great, glorious, and innovative" This stipulation. record of the United States during the first three weeks of the highest initial sales of each LP Capitol, Capitol and it is a compilation album later adopted as official canon of the group. Released the day after Christmas, Magical Mystery Tour film, most often performed by McCartney, bringing the Beatles their first major negative press and England. He is considered a "blatant waste" by the Daily Express, who described it as "a great number of raw footage showing a group of people on, off, and take the bus. " The Daily Mailcalled "arrogance", while The Guardian called it "a sort of fantasy character on the coarseness and heat and stupidity of the audience" This is destiny. so serious was cut from the U.S. at the time. In January, the group filmed a cameo for the film theanimated Yellow Submarine, a fantasy with an animated version of The Beatles. This group does the involvement of others with this film is a contribution of some studio recordings that were never released. Released in June 1968, was well received for its innovative visual style and humor in addition to music. There will be seven months, however, before the album soundtrack appeared.
For some time as the Beatles, a double LP is known as the White Album for the cover feature. creative inspiration for the album came from an unexpected quarter when, with the presence of Epstein led the group switched to the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi as a teacher. At the ashram in Rishikesh, India, the three month "Course Guide" has become one of the most creative periods, producing a large number of songs including some of the thirty-recorded for the album [159 ] Starr. left after ten days, which equates to Butlins, McCartney and possibly bored with the proceedings and went a month later. To Lennon and Harrison, creativity turned into a question when Yanni Alexis Mardas, electronics technician called Magic Alex, suggest that the Maharishi attempted to manipulate the group. After Tuesday alleges that the Maharishi had made sexual advances to participants, persuaded Lennon and left abruptly, taking Harrison was not sure and the rest of the group around him. In his anger Lennon wrote a song refers to is called "Maharishi", but later changed to avoid lawsuits, so the "Sexy Sadie," said McCartney. "We made a mistake. We believe there is more to him than he is. "
During the recording sessions for the album, which runs from late May until mid-October 1968, the relationship between the group members have openly divisive. Starr stopped for a period, leaving McCartney to do the drums on some songs. Lennon romantic preoccupation with the avant-garde artist Yoko Ono has contributed to tensions in the band and he lost interest in co-wrote with Paul McCartney. Violated the agreement established the group they will not make partner at the studio, Lennon insisted on putting Ono, however, hated by Harrison, for all sessions. The more creative input McCartney is insulting, he began to identify the composition of it as "music grandmother," to reject "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" as "Grand mother dirt. "Given the White Album sessions, Lennon odd summing-up shortcut History Group at the time, said," It's like if you took all the songs on it and make all mine and all of Paul ... just me and the support group, Paul and support groups, and I liked it and then we broke .. "McCartney also recalled that the meeting marked the beginning of a break, saying: "Until then, this world of problems, but we have not" always "the best thing about the Beatles." Published in November, the White Album "Apple Records released the band's first album. The new label is a subsidiary of Apple Corps, which was formed by a group of them back from India, meets Epstein plans to create corporate structure effective tax. Attracted a record increase of more than two million orders, sold nearly four million copies in the United States to a little over a month, and the tracks that dominate Playlists U.S. radio station. Despite its popularity, it did not receive flattering comments from that time. By Jonathan Gould
critical response ... varied from a mixture of the apartment. Unlike Sgt. Pepper, who helped build the entire genre of literacy rock critics, it is the White Album inspired writings critical of any document. Even the most sympathetic reviews ... obviously do not know what to do with this track in the form of bestowal. Newsweek Hubert Saal, citing the high proportion of parody, accusing the group get their tongues caught in their cheeks.
Critical public opinion finally turned in favor of the White Album and in 2003, Rolling Stoneranked the tenth greatest album of all time. Pitchfork described it as "full of large and spacious, with ideas, but also with indulgence, and a table full of very different matter ... the failure of the company are as important to its character as a victory. "Allmusic observes:" Clearly, two of the Beatles' main track power is no longer on the same page, but not more than George and Ringo "but" Lennon changed in two of the best ballads, "songs of Paul McCartney were" amazing, "Harrison is deemed to have become" a composer who deserves wider exposure "and the composition Starr is" fun. "
Now, the interest of the Beatles song has taken a serious turn. When John Lennon song "Revolution" was released as a single in August before the White Album, the message seems clear: "free your mind" and "Count on me" any discussion on the damage as a means to an end in a year marked by student protests from Warsaw to Paris to Chicago, the response of the radical left spicy. However, the White Album version of the song, "Revolution 1", add additional words, "count on me ... in ", which implies a change of heart since the single's release. This chronology is in fact the registered version to the other side of the first ambivalent on the album, but some felt that the Beatles are saying that political violence can indeed be justified.
The Yellow Submarine LP finally appeared in January 1969. contains only four new songs and the title track (previously released on Revolver), "All You Need Is Love" (previously released as singles and on the U.S. Magical Mystery Tour LP) and seven instrumental pieces composed by Martin. Due to the lack of new Beatles 'music', the album shows Allmusic may be "non-essential", but Harrison "It's All Too Much," "glittering jewel ... the new songs in the swirling Mellotron, of more than life percussion, and waves pairs virtuoso guitar feedback ... excursion into psychedelia trouble otherwise. "

Abbey Road, Let It Be and breaks
Although Let It Be is the release of the band latest album, mostly recorded before Abbey Road. Originally titled Get Back, Let It Be came from Martin attributes the idea of Paul McCartney: preparing new material and "do it before the public for the first time on CD and in the movie In other terms create a new live album Materials, which had never been done before.. "In the case of many studio album content coming from work, the number of captured on film by director Michael Lindsay-Hogg. Martin said the exercises and recording for the project, which is much occupied in January 1969, was "not at all happy experience ... There was a time when relations between the Beatles at their lowest level .." Exacerbated by McCartney and Lennon, Harrison stepped down during the week. He returned with keyboardist Billy Preston, who participated in the last ten days of the session and credited to "Get Back" single, the only other musician to receive such recognition in the official records of the Beatles. Group members reached an impasse over the location of the concert, has declined from a concept of a ship at sea, the desert of Tunisia and the Colosseum. Ultimately, the final performance of The Beatles, accompanied by Preston, filmed on the roof of the Apple Corps building at 3 Savile Row, London, January 30, 1969.
Engineer Glyn Johns worked for months assembling the various versions of the album Get Back, while the group turned to other problems. Conflicts arise concerning the appointment of financial advisors, the need became clear that without Epstein to manage the business. Lennon, Harrison and Starr liked Allen Klein, who has negotiated contracts for the Rolling Stones and other British bands during the British Invasion. McCartney wants John Eastman, brother of Linda Eastman, who married McCartney March 12 (eight days before Lennon and Ono were married). Agreement could be reached so that both are designated, but a new conflict ensued and the financial opportunity is lost.
Martin was surprised when McCartney was contacted and asked him to produce another album, like "Get Back" sessions were "bad experience" and he "thought it was the end of the road for us all .. . these are nice people to ourselves and to others. "Recording Session for Abbey Road began in late February. Lennon Martin rejected the proposed format of" continuous movement piece of music ", and want your own songs McCartney and occupy separate sides of the album. Format ultimately, with individual songs composed in the first and second are largely made up of a mixture, McCartney proposed a compromise. On July 4, while working on this album is in progress, the first single by a solo Beatle appears: Lennon "Give Peace a Chance," credited to the Plastic Ono Band. Regulation Abbey Road song "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" on August 20, 1969 was the last time all four Beatles were together in the same studio. Lennon announced his departure for the group on September 20, but agreed that no public announcement will be made until a number of legal issues resolved.
Released six days after the declaration of Lennon, Abbey Road has sold four million copies in two months and head of the British charts for eleven weeks. His second title, that "something" ballad, also published as single song by Harrison's first and only appear as an A side of the Beatles. Abbey Road received mixed reviews, although medley met a general success. Allmusic considers it "appropriate swan song for the group" contains "some of the greatest harmonies to be heard on any rock record" MacDonald has called "erratic and often hollow". "If it was not entry McCartney as designers ... Abbey Road Medley Long will pretend lack of unity and coherence that made him look better. "Martin was selected as a favorite of all the band's albums, Lennon said" competent "but" life is in it, "said:" Maxwell's Silver Hammer "" more music Paul grandmother "sound engineer Geoff Emerick noted. studio valve replacement with a mixer transistor produce a less punchy, leaving a group frustrated with a light tone and lack of impact.
For the rest unfinished album Get Back, Beatles news "songs, Harrison's" I Me Mine "was recorded January 3, 1970. Lennon, Denmark at the time, did not participate. To complete the album, now renamed Let It Be, Get Back in March Klein provides session tapes for the American producer Phil Spector. Known as the wall of sound approach, Spector has recently produced a solo John Lennon "Instant Karma!" In addition to Get Back remix material, Spector edition, spliced and several overdubbed recordings that have been designed as "life." McCartney was not satisfied with the treatment of the material Spector and especially not satisfied with the producer orchestrated "The Long and Winding Road" involving the choir and ensemble of thirty-four instrumental part. He failed attempt to stop the release of Spector's version. McCartney announced his departure from April 10, a week before the first album, self solo title. pre-publication copies of documents, including release of Paul McCartney with self-written interview explaining the end of his involvement with the Beatles and his hopes for the future.
May 8, Spector produced Let It Be was released. Attached single is "The Long and Winding Road", the last group, was published in the United States but not Britain. Let It Be documentary was followed later in the month, next year Awardceremony Academy, will win the Oscar for best original music [189] The Sunday Telegraph called it "a very bad movie and feel .. . to break a part of this family convince geometrically perfect, brothers and sisters for all ages at all apparently .. "More than one reviewer noted that some of the songs Let It Be sounds better in this film of the album. Noting that the Let It Be is the "only Beatles album to negative events, even hostile reviews, Allmusic described it as" all underestimated ... McCartney in particular offers several gems: the gospel -ish "Let It Be", which have more words: .. "Get Back", one of his hardest rockers and melody of "The Long Winding Road and were destroyed by clumsy dubbing Spector "McCartney has filed a lawsuit to dissolve the Beatles December 31, 1970 legal dispute continues long after the band breaks, and the dissolution of the corporation does not take effect until 1975.


|1970–present

Please Please Me and With The Beatles (1963–1966)

Following the moderate success of "Love Me Do" "Please Please Me" has encountered a host that is more assertive, reached number two on the UK charts after its release in January 1963. Martin was originally intended to record the band's debut LP Live at the Cavern Club. The research of this "surround sound of a tank of oil" elected to do a "live" album in one session at Abbey Road Studios. Dix songs recorded for the Please Please Me, was accompanied on album of four songs that were released on two singles. Given the way the group "rushed to give a debut album, bashing about Please Please Me in one day" A reviewer comments Allmusic, "Decades after its release, the album still sounds fresh, precisely because of its intense origins." Lennon said a little thought into the composition at the time, he and McCartney were "just write songs to the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly's, pop songs without thinking of them more than that make sounds and words almost. irrelevant [.
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.

Please Please Me is still tops the album charts. This keeps the position for 30 weeks, only to be displaced by Beatleswhich By itself holds the top spot for 21 weeks. Using techniques more production studio live predecessor, the album was recorded between July and October. With the Beatles is described by All Music Guide as "a continuation of the highest order that improves the original by developing its own tone and adding depth." In a reversal of what was previously a common practice, this album was released in late November next will come the singles "I Want to Hold Your Hand", with songs excluded to maximize sales only. With The Beatles attract the attention of the Times music critic William Mann, who went up to show that Lennon and McCartney were "English composers of 1963 outstanding. The newspaper published a series of articles that Mann offers a detailed analysis of the Beatles, the privilege of borrowing. With the Beatles became the second album in the history of British painting to sell a million copies, a figure that had previously only accessible by a soundtrack of South Pacific 1958.
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)

The Beatles' second film, Help, again directed by Lester!, Released in July. Described as "primarily a relentless parody of Bond," [98] was inspired by a variety of responses between the two reviews and the band. McCartney said, "Aid is good, but that's not us so we invited the movie star. It was fun, but basically as an idea for a movie, it's a little sore ". This soundtrack is dominated by Lennon, singer and songwriter on most songs, including two of singles conducted on her, and "Ticket to Ride Help! ". The album cover, studio LP fifth group contains a mixture of original materials and times. Help! See this band increased use of vocal overdubs and enter the classical instruments in their contexts, in particular the Quartet strings on the pop ballad "Yesterday." Compiled by McCartney, "Yesterday" inspire some cover versions recorded all the songs ever written. LP's closing track, "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" on the cover band last included in the album. With the exception of Let It Be brief report of the traditional Liverpool folk song "Maggie Mae", all of their next album will contain only self-written material.
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.


1966–1970|1970–present

Early years (1957–1962)

sixteen years, vocalist and guitarist John Lennon formed the Quarrymen skiffle group with his someLiverpool school in March 1957. Fifteen years, Paul McCartney joined as guitarist and after Lennon met in July. When McCartney in turn invited George Harrison to look at the following February, fourteen joined as guitarist. In 1960, Lennon left school, he began studying at the Liverpool College of Art and the three guitarists who play rock and roll to wherever they can get a drummer. Joined on bass in January, another student, Stuart Sutcliffe, Lennon suggested changing the group name to "The Beetles" in homage to Buddy Holly and The Crickets, and they became "The Beatals" for the first month of this year. After trying other names including "Johnny and the Moondogs", "Long John and beetles" and "The Silver Beatles", the band eventually became "The Beatles" in August. Lack of permanent drummer cause problems when the unofficial boss of the group, Allan Williams, had arranged a reservation for the resident in Hamburg, Germany. Before the end of August, they auditioned and recruited drummer Pete Best, and quintet went to Hamburg four days later, was contracted to show the market Bruno Koschmider night for stays of 48 nights. "Hamburg at the time had no club rock 'n' roll band a. Clubs," said Norman biographerPhilip.
Bruno has an idea to put rock band playing in various clubs. They have this formula. It is a great event non-stop, hour after hour, with many people and many other slip slide. And the band will play all the time to catch the passing traffic. In one district of America at red lights, they call striptease nonstop.
Many groups that play came to Hamburg from Liverpool ... It was an accident. Bruno went to London to find the tape. But he happened to meet a businessman from Liverpool, Soho, London that fell by chance. And it plans to send several top bands.
Harrison only 17 years in August 1960, was granted permission to stay in Hamburg with the German lied to authorities about his age. Originally set to the Beatles Indra Club, Koschmider Kaiserkeller the move in October after Indra was closed because of noise complaints. When they violate their contract to perform at rival Top Ten Club, Harrison Koschmider reported a minor authorities, which led to the deportation in November. McCartney and Best were arrested for burning a week later, when they burn condoms pinned to the wall in their room, they were also expelled. Lennon returned to Liverpool in mid-December while Sutcliffe stayed in Hamburg by Germany's new fiancée, Astrid Kirchherr for months. Kirchherr take professional photographs and hair first group cut Sutcliffe "Exi" German (existentialists) force at the time, see later adopted by the other Beatles.
Over the next two years, the population group for further periods of Hamburg. They use both recreational and Preludin to maintain their power through performance overnight. Sutcliffe decided to leave the band in early 1961 and continued her art studies in Germany, McCartney took to the bass. German producer Bert Kaempfert developed what is now four parties acting as a group Sheridan'sbacking Tony on a series of records. Credited to "Tony Sheridan and The Beat Brothers", the single "My Bonnie", recorded in June and was released four months later, reached number 32 on the chart Musikmarkt. The Beatles back has also become more popular in Liverpool. In one of the group's performance is often at the Cavern Club where they met Brian Epstein, owner of local record stores and music columnist. When the manager of the group in January 1962 Epstein, Kaempfert agreed to release the German recording contract. Decca Records after the group refused to comment "guitar groups are disappearing, Mr. Epstein, George Martin signed the band to EMI label Parlophone. Greet new tragedy when they returned to Hamburg in April. Their meeting at the airport, saying a death blow Kirchherr Sutcliffe of a cerebral hemorrhage.
In Liverpool, the Merseybeat movement was gathering strength. The group had recorded its first session under the direction of Martin at EMI Studios in London in June 1962. Martin complained to the Epstein Best drum band and suggested using a session drummer in the studio. However, Best was replaced by Ringo Starr. Starr, who joined Rory Storm and the Hurricanes to join the Beatles had done with them without the Best casual. Martin was hired session drummer Andy White for one session. White has played in the singles "Love Me Do" and "PS I love you." Released in October, "Love Me Do" was among the top twenty UK hit, peaking at number seventeen on the map. After the studio session in November to produce what will be the second single "Please Please Me", they made their television debut with a live performance at the People and Places Programme Regional News .

The group concluded their final assignment in Hamburg in December 1962. At that time, became a model that all four members contribute vocals, even if it means limited Starr rarely sang lead. Lennon and McCartney songwriting partnership has been established, as the band's success grew, they celebrated their collaboration is limited opportunity Harrison as a singer. Epstein, realizing the commercial potential of The Beatles', by encouraging groups to adopt a professional attitude to do. Lennon remember the manager saying, "Look, if you really want in the places that large, you have to eat the change-stop on stage, stop swearing, stop smoking." Lennon said: "We used to dress as we like, on and off stage. "We said that jeans can not be too smart and we can arrange to wear pants good, but he does not want us to suddenly look square. There ' d think of our own individuality ... it's a choice to make or eat chicken on stage.


1963–1966|1966–1970|1970–present

Special 1970-1977

Presley's only child, Lisa Marie, was born on February 1, 1968 during the period he had become very unhappy in his career. Of the eight singles released between January 1967 and Presley in May 1968, only two cards in 40 above, and no more than the number 28. His soundtrack to the upcoming movie, Speedway, died at number 82 on the Billboard charts. Parker has changed its plans for television, in which Presley did not arise since Sinatra Timex Show 1960. He maneuvered a deal with NBC that the network is determined both financial characteristics and the setting for a special Christmas.
Recorded at the end of June, a special called Elvis, which aired on December 3, 1968. Then known as the special characteristics of 68, see Comeback lavish stage production studio as well as songs by the band's first concert in front of a small audience-Presley lives since 1961. Segments saw Presley clad in black leather living tight, singing and playing guitar in a rock style and the first days free roll. Director and co-producer Steve Binder has worked hard to convince the singer was nervous and produce an event away from hours of Christmas carols Parker initially expected. Show, NBC highest ratings of the season, capturing 42 percent of viewers in total. Jon Landau Eye magazine remarked, "There is something magical about seeing a person who has lost himself find his way back, she sings. With this type of capability is not expected to rock 'n' roll. He moved his body with a lack of desire and effort must have made Jim Morrison green with envy. "The New Rolling Stone Album Guide calls one of the performance" of the grandeur and emotional resonance of history. "
In January 1969 the single "If I Can Dream", written for a number, especially for $ 12. Thesoundtrack album entered the top ten. According to the friend Jerry Schilling, a special reminder of that Presley "was unable to do for years, could choose someone, who could choose what song and can not be told what should be on the soundtrack .. . It. Leaving prison, man. "Binder said that the reaction of Presley, Elvis, I played 60 minute event, and he said to the projection room," Steve is the greatest thing I've ever done in my life that I give. You believe me, I would never sing a song, I do not believe in "
From Elvis In Memphis International
With the experience Comeback Special, Presley was involved in a series of recording sessions at American Sound Production Studio, which causes acclaimedFrom Elvis in Memphis. Released in June 1969, his first secular, non-album soundtrack of the period of dedicated studio in eight years. As described by Dave Marsh, it is "a work in which Presley soon catch the trend of pop music that seems to go through the years of the film. He sings country songs, soul and rock with real conviction, an amazing achievement. "The album featured the single" In the Ghetto "was released in April, which reached number three on the pop chart gospel Presley the first non-top ten hit since" Bossa Nova Baby "in 1963. D Other singles from the American Sound Session: "Suspicious Minds", "Do not Cry Daddy" and "Kentucky Rain."
Presley was eager to resume normal life problems. After the success of the Comeback Special offers from around the world. London Palladium offered Parker $ 28,000 for a commitment of one week. He replied: "It's good for me, now how can you get Elvis?" In May, the new international brand hotel in Las Vegas has the largest showroom in the city, announced that they had booked Presley. It is planned to achieve 57 shows over four weeks from July 31. Moore, Fontana and the Jordanaires declined to participate for fear of losing their lucrative session work in Nashville. Presley has assembled a new, accompanying high level, led by guitarist James Burton and included two gospel groups, The Empire and the Sweet Inspirations, however, he was nervous just before the start of Las Vegas in 1956, was pathetic. Parker, who intended to return Presley is an exhibition event in the company, overseeing major boost to the promotion. Meanwhile, the hotel owner Kirk Kerkorian is configured to send his own plane to New York to fly on a rock journalist for his performance.
Presley went on stage without introduction. The audience of about 2200, including many celebrities, giving him a standing ovation before she sang a note and another after his appearance. A third followed his point, "Can not Help Falling in Love" (a song that ends the number of years of the 1970s). At a press conference after the event, when the reporter called "The King," said Presley Fats Domino, who took in the scene. "No," said Presley, "the true king of rock and roll." The next day, Parker's negotiations with the hotel which resulted in a five-year contract for Presley to play each February and August, with an annual salary of $ 1 million. Newsweekcommented, "There are wonderful things about Elvis, but more remarkable is the strength of his life in a world where meteoric careers fade like shooting stars." Rolling Stone called Presley "supernatural, the resurrection itself." In November, the end of the film non-Presley concert, Habit Change, was opened. Double album from Memphis to Vegas / From Vegas to Memphis was released the same month, the first LP made up of spectacles of the International, the second cut more than Sessions of the American. "Suspicious Minds" topped the pop charts, Presley's first issue of the United States more than seven years, and the last.
Cassandra Peterson, Elvira, and then television, Presley met during this period in Las Vegas, where he worked as a dancer. He remembers their meeting, "He was very anti-drugs when I met him I mentioned that I was smoking marijuana. And he's just stunned. He said:" Never this again. "Presley was not only strongly opposed to drugs, he also rarely drink. Several members of his family had been an alcoholic, a fate that he intended to avoid.
Nixon is back on tour and meeting
Presley returned to international debut in 1970 for the first two years of commitment for a month, do two shows tonight. The recording of this event was published on the album on stage [187] At the end of February., Presley performed six shows a record turnout at the Astrodome in Houston. [188] In April, the single "The Wonder of You" was issued, the number one hit in Britain, it topped the adult contemporary chart in the United States as well. MGM exercises and concert footage filmed at the International in August documentaryElvis: The Way It Is Presley is now appearing in a combination, which became the trademark of his live act. During this engagement, he was threatened with assassination less than $ 50,000 was paid. Presley became the target of numerous threats since 1950, often without their knowledge. The FBI took the threat seriously and increased security for the next two events. Presley left the stage with a Derringer in the trunk to the right and 0.45 pistol in his belt, but the concert was uneventful.
Album That's the Way It Is, was produced to accompany the documentary and show both studio and live recordings, marked a turning point in style. As music historian John Robertson notes, "The Power of Presley singing helps disguise the fact that the album firmly moved away from the inspiration of American-roots session to Memphis more than a middle-voice Road. With the state back wore R burner, and soul and left & B in Memphis, which remains a very classy, very clean white pop-perfect for a variety of Las Vegas, but a decline for Elvis. "After the end of its international commitment on September 7, Presley began a concert tour of a week, most of the South, its first since 1958. Another tour for a week, West Coast, then in November .
On December 21, 1970, Presley strange genius meeting with President Richard Nixonat White House, where he was declared patriotism and contempt for the hippie drug culture. He asked Nixon for the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs badge, add the same point, he began to collect and to signify the official sanction of his patriotic efforts. Nixon, who seems to find awkward meeting, expressed the belief that Presley could send a positive message to young people and it was important that it was "maintaining credibility". Presley Nixon said that the Beatles, the song is regularly performed in concert at the time, illustrated by what he saw as the trend of anti-Americanism and drug abuse in popular culture. (Presley and his friends have a four-hour appointment with the Beatles five years earlier.) After hearing the report of the meeting, Paul McCartney later said he "felt a little betrayed. ... Big joke is that we take drugs [illegal], and look what happened to him, "a reference to Presley's death, rushed to the abuse of prescription drugs. [196]
U. S. Junior Chamber of Commerce named one of the men Presley annual Ten Most Outstanding Young Nation January 16, 1971. Shortly after, the city of Memphis has named a stretch of Highway 51 South, located Graceland "Elvis Presley Boulevard." In the same year, Presley became the first rock and roll will be given the Lifetime Achievement Award (then known as the Bing Crosby Award) by the National Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Grammy organization. Three new non-album studio Presley movie, released in 1971, a total that comes out in the past eight years earlier. Best received by critics Elvis Country is a concept album focusing on the standard kind. The biggest seller is the Elvis Sings Wonderful World of Christmas, "the true state of all", as Greil Marcus. "In the midst of Christmas carols painful polished ten, each sung with sincerity and humility terrible, you can find travel tom-catting Elvis ablaze six minutes of" Merry Christmas, Baby ", a lecherous old Charles Brown blues. .. If sin [Presley] was not his life. It is sin that brought him to life. "
Marriage and disorganization Aloha from Hawaii

MGM again filmed Presley in April 1972, this time for Elvis on Tour, who later won a Golden Globe Award for best documentary this year. His gospel album He Touched Me, was released this month, will receive his second Grammy Award for Best Inspirational Performance. A 14-tour begins with four sold out shows in a row without precedent in New York at Madison Square GardenThe night concert on July 10 has been recorded and published as the SEC a week later. Elvis: As Recorded at Madison Square Gardenbecame one of the best-selling albums Presley. After the tour, the single "Burning Love" was released last Presley hits top-ten U.S. pop charts. "The Elvis of the most interesting has been done since" All Shook Up, "wrote critic Robert Christgau rock." Who else could do "is approaching, the fire is now licking my body sounds like an assignment backup tape of James Brown?
Presley and his wife, meanwhile, has become increasingly distant, almost did not cohabit. In 1971, his relationship with Joyce Bova results unbeknownst to him during the pregnancy and abortion. He has often mentioned the possibility of passing it to Graceland, said he could leave Priscilla. The Presley separated on February 23, 1972, after Priscilla disclosed her relationship with Mike Stone, a karate instructor Presley recommended. Priscilla told me that when she told him, Presley "grabbed ... and love for" her, saying: "This is how a real man to please his wife." Five months later, the new small Elvis girlfriend Linda Thompson, a songwriter and a time Memphis beauty queen, lives with him. Presley and his wife filed for divorce Aug. 18.
In January 1973, Presley performed two benefit concerts for the Kui Lee Cancer Fund in connection with a breakthrough TV special Aloha from Hawaii. The first show was used as backup should run the practice and technical matters concerning the live broadcast two days later. Served as planned on January 14, Aloha from Hawaii concert was the first global satellite broadcast, reaching around 1.5 billion viewers live and recorded. Presley became the best known examples costume together complicated equipment with his character on the final day become intimately linked. As described by Bobbie Ann Mason, "In the end, when he unfolds his cape American Eagle, an eagle with wings spread fully studded on the back, he became a figure of God." Double album above, has was published in February, went to number one and eventually sold over five million copies in the United States. This proved to be Presley's last number one U.S. pop album of his lifetime.
In the middle of the night showed the same month, four people rushed the stage during an attack clear. man jumped defense security Presley Karate singer and instinct took over when he removed one of the invaders from the scene itself. After the show, he becomes obsessed with the idea that people were sent by Peter to kill him. Although they were found to have fans that overexuberant, he raged, "There's too much pain in me ... Stone [must] die. "His explosion continued with such intensity that doctors are unable to calm him down, although a large dose of medication. After two full-time rampage, Red West, his friend and bodyguard, is felt compelled to get a price for a contract killing and was relieved when Presley decided:. "Aw hell, let's leave it for now maybe a bit heavy


medical crisis and the last studio session
Presley divorce came into force October 9, 1973. It is now increasingly unhealthy. Twice over the years, he overdosed onbarbiturates, spent three days in a coma in his hotel room after the first incident. In late 1973, he was hospitalized, semicomatose cons effects of Demerol addiction. According to the attending physician, Dr. George C. Nichopoulos, Presley "feel that by getting [the drug] by the doctor, it was not common everyday junkie getting something off the road." Since his return, he played more live shows each year passed, and 1973 168 see the concert, his busiest schedule ever.Despite his health deteriorated in 1974, he made an extensive tour another time.
Presley condition declined rapidly in September. Keyboardist Tony Brown remember the arrival of the singer in a Marylandconcert University: "It fell from the limo, on his knees to help people jumping, and he encouraged them to go like." Do not help me. "He walked on stage and held the microphone for 30 minutes Everyone sees this first post as the other. Do tour will happen? "Guitarist John Wilkinson recalled," It is a gut every speech .. He's so messed up. ... Clearly she had been drugged. Obviously there is something very wrong with his body. While the words barely comprehensible bad song ... I remember crying .. She could barely through the introduction of "Wilkinson said. a few nights later, in Detroit," I saw him in the locker room, all draped over a chair, unable to move so often I thought, "Boss, why not just cancel the tour and take a year off ...?' I said something once in a guarded He hit me in the back. He said, "Everything will be alright Do not worry .." "Presley continued to play before crowds of demand. As a cultural critic, says Marjorie Garber, it is now widely regarded as a crooner of pop striking: "In short, it became Liberace Even his fans are now middle-aged moms and grandmother with blue hair .. "
On July 13, 1976, Vernon Presley, who had become heavily involved in the financial affairs of his son-fire "Memphis Mafia" bodyguard Red West (Presley friend since the 1950s), Sonny West and David Heble , citing the need to "cut to the detriment of the" Presley. in Palm Springs at the time, and some suggest the singer was too cowardly to face the same three. Another colleague Presley, John O'Grady, was argued that the guards were dropped because of their rude treatment of fans has made too many demands. However, Elvis' stepbrother, David Stanley said that the guards who were fired because they had become noisier on drug addiction Presley. Presley and Linda Thompson split in November, and he took with a new girlfriend, Ginger Alden. He proposed Alden and gave him the engagement ring two months later, although some of its Friends later said he had no serious intention of remarrying.
RCA, which has benefited from the flow of products Presley for over a decade, worried that interest in spending time in the studio guests. After the December 1973 session which produced 18 tracks, close enough to two albums, he did not enter the studio in 1974. Parker sold at a concert record RCA, Elvis: As Recorded Live on Stage in Memphis. Registered March 20, it includes versions of "How Great Thou Art" which will win the Third Prize Presley and his last Grammy competition. (All three of his Grammy competitive on a total of 14 applications were for gospel recordings.) Presley returned to the studio in Hollywood in March 1975, but Parker's efforts to hold another session at the end of the year did not work. In 1976, RCA sent a mobile studio at Graceland, which allows two sessions Record scale at home Presley. Even in the context of comfort, the registration process are currently struggling to him.
For all the problems of labels and managers, studio sessions between July 1973 and October 1976, Presley recorded almost the entire contents of six albums. Although no longer a significant presence on the charts, five of them in the album charts the top five countries and three were number one: Promised Land (1975), From Elvis Presley Boulevard in Memphis Tennessee (1976), and Moody Blue (1977). The story is similar to his pop hits not only big, but Presley is a major force in the market not only countries but also the adult contemporary radio. Eight singles studio this period was released during his lifetime that affects the top ten in any maps, four in 1974 alone. "My Boy" is the number one AC hit in 1975 and "Moody Blue" at the head of the country charts and reached second place in AC in 1976. Perhaps most critically acclaimed recordings coming time of year, in what Greil Marcus describes as "apocalyptic attack" his soul on the classic "Hurt". "If he feels he has heard "Dave Marsh wrote about the performance of Elvis," not surprised that only one year left to live, but he managed to survive that long. "

The last years and death
Journalist Tony Scherman writes that in early 1977, "Elvis Presley has become a caricature of his bizarre elegant, energetic former self thoughts are overweight. That blunted by the pharmacopoeia, he ingested daily, was almost unable to pull through Short gig. "In Alexandria, Louisiana, the singer on stage less than an hour and it is impossible to understand" [240] Presley has not appeared in Baton Rouge. He can not leave the hotel bed and the rest of the tour was canceled. Although the acceleration of injury to health, he stuck with a commitment to ride the most. In Rapid City, South Dakota, "he was so nervous on stage when she could barely speak, "according to historian Samuel Roy Presley, and unable to" make any significant movement. " Guralnick tells fans "are more eloquent about their disappointment, but all turned to the right past Elvis, the world is now almost entirely confined to his room and his book of spirituality." A cousin, Billy Smith, recalled how Presley would sit in her room and chat for hours, sometimes telling favorite Monty Python sketches and adventures of his own past, but most often plagued by paranoid obsession that recalls Smith Howard Hughes. "Way Down," Presley's last single to be released during his life on June 6 his last concert was held at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis, June 26
The book Elvis:? What happened, cowritten by the guards fired three years earlier, was published on 1 August. This is the first detailed description of drug abuse Presley. He was devastated by the book and tried failed to prevent the release by offering money to the publisher. At this point, he suffered from various diseases, glaucoma, hypertension, liver damage and intestinal dilatation, each worse, and may be caused by drug abuse.
Presley was scheduled to leave Memphis on the night of August 16, 1977, to start a new tour. This afternoon, Alden found him unresponsive on floor bathroom. Efforts to resuscitate him failed, and was officially pronounced dead at 15:30 at Baptist Memorial Hospital.
President Jimmy Carter issued a statement Presley deserves to have "permanently changed the face of American popular culture." Thousands of people gathered at Graceland to see the open casket. A cousin of Presley, Billy Mann, received 18,000 dollars in secret photograph of the corpse, the image appears on the cover of National Enquirer edition of the bestseller ever. Alden reach an agreement with the $ 105,000 Enquirer for the story, but less settled when he violated his agreement exclusivity. Presley has left nothing in his will.
Presley funeral took place at Graceland, Thursday, Aug. 18. At the door, a car struck a group of fans, killing two women and seriously injuring a third. About 80,000 people lined the parade at Forest Hill Cemetery, where Presley is buried near his mother. In a few days, "Way Down" at the top of the country and British pop songs. After trying to steal the body of the singer at the end of August, the remains of both Elvis Presley and his mother buried at Graceland Meditation Garden, October 2.
Since 1977,
Between 1977 and 1981, six posthumously released single by Presley hitting ten countries. Graceland opened to the public in 1982. Attracted more than half a million visitors each year, is the second most visited house in the United States after the White House. It was declared a National Monument in 2006.
Presley was inducted into four Music Hall of Fame: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1986), Country Music Hall of Fame (1998), theGospel Music Hall of Fame (2001), and the Rockabilly Hall of Fame (2007). In 1984 he was awarded the WC Handy Award for Blues Foundation and the Academy of Country Music Hat first Golden's. In 1987 he received the American Music Awards of Merit.
A Junkie XL remix of Presley's "A Little Less Conversation" (credited as "Elvis Vs JXL") is used in an advertising campaign for Nike during the2002 FIFA World Cup. It topped the charts in over 20 countries and included in the compilation of Number One Hits Presley ELV1S, who is also an international success. In 2003, a remix of "Rubberneckin ', 1969 records of Presley, the top selling cards in the United States, as well as birthday-50 re-release of" That's All Right "next year. The latter is a direct hit in the UK, reaching number three on the pop charts.
In 2005, reprinted three singles, "Rock Prison," "One Night" / "I Got Stung" and "It's Now or No," went to number one in England. Some 17 single, Presley was re-issued during the year, all being top five in the United Kingdom. For the fifth consecutive year, Forbes named Presley top-earning dead celebrity, with gross revenues of $ 45 million. In 2009 he was ranked fourth. The following year, Viva Elvis: The album was released, the establishment of a new instrumental voice to the song recorded.
Presley holds the record for most songs charts on top of the Billboard top 40 and 100: Joel Whitburn chart statistics count the total, respectively, 104 and 151; Presley historian Victor Adam gave 114 and 138. Presley ranked top ten hits and a number varies depending on how the two sides of "Hound Dog / Don 't Be Cruel" and "Do not / I beg you" single, which preceded the birth of the Billboard Hot 100-US which analyzed.d According Whitburn, Presley holds the record for most hits from ten to 38; by Billboard current assessment, he ranks second with 36 behind Madonna 37. Whitburn Billboard and agree that the Beatles hold the record for most number one hits with 20 and Mariah Carey second with 18. Whitburn also Presley with 18 and therefore linked to both; Billboard his third with 17. Presley maintain a record of cumulative weeks at number one: only 80, according to Whitburn and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, tied with Carey at 79, according to Billboard. He holds the British record for the number at least one hit, with 21, and top ten hits with 76.