The British rock group The Beatles, formed in Liverpool in 1960, and an act of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed in the history of popular music. From 1962 the group consisting of John Lennon (rhythm guitar, vocals), Paul McCartney (bass, vocals), George Harrison (guitar, vocals) and Ringo Starr (drums, vocals). Skiffleand rooted in rock and roll in the 1950s, the group then worked in various genres from pop rock ballad topsychedelic, often combining elements of other traditional and innovative ways. The nature of their popularity, which has emerged as a mode "Beatlemania", the song has changed as they grow in sophistication.more>>>