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.


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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.


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From The Beatles to Rock n Roll

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. This group came to be regarded as a manifestation of progressive ideals, saw their influence extend into the social and cultural revolution of the 1960s.
Initially, the five parts line-up of Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe (bass) and Pete Best (drums), the Beatles made their reputation in the club from Liverpool and Hamburg for three years from 1960. Sutcliffe left the band in 1961, Best was replaced by Starr in the following year. Molded into a professional outfit with a music store owner Brian Epstein, after having offered to act as group manager, and with the potential of their musical creativity producerGeorge improved with Martin, the Beatles mainstream success in Britain at the end 1962 with their first single, "Love Me Do". Gaining international popularity over the next year, they toured extensively until 1966, then retired to the studio until their breakup in 1970. Each success was later found in an independent music career. Lennon murderedoutside his home in New York in 1980, Harrison died of cancer in 2001. McCartney and Starr to remain active.
During the years of their studio, The Beatles produced what some critics consider their best material, including the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), widely considered a masterpiece. Forty years after their breakup, the music of the Beatles continue to be popular. The Beatles had more number one albums in the UK charts, and pressed the top position longer than any other musical act. According to the RIAA certifications, they sold more albums in the U.S. than any other artist. In 2008, Billboard magazine published a list of all-time best-selling Hot 100 artists to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the U.S. singles chart, with The Beatles at number one. They were honored with 7 Grammy Awards and have won 15 Ivor Novello Awards for British Academy of Authors, Composers and Authors. The Beatles collectively included in the compilation of Time magazine .


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