The Beatles were a highly successful British rock band formed in the 1960s. They were composed of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. Over the course of their career they produced innovative music and became the most commercially successful band in history. Abbey Road Studios was where they recorded much of their discography and the photo on the cover of their Abbey Road album of the band walking across the nearby zebra crossing became iconic. Even decades later, the crossing remains a popular tourist destination for fans to commemorate the band.

2.  The Beatles Was a band of active English rock
during the decade of 1960, and recognized like
the more commercially successful and
críticamente acclaimed in the history of the
popular music. Formed in Liverpool, was
constituted from 1962 by John Lennon (guitar
rítmica, vocalist), Paul McCartney (low,
vocalist), George Harrison (soloist guitar,
vocalist) and Ringo Starr (battery, vocalist).
Rooted in the skiffle and the rock and roll of the
years fifty, the band worked later with distinct
musical genders, that went from the bleated
pop until the rock psicodélico, Incorporating
often classical elements, between others, of

3.  They attained commercial success in the United
Kingdom to ends of 1962 with his first simple,
„‟Love Me Do‟‟. From here, were purchasing
international popularity along the following
years, in which did an extensive number of turn
until 1966, year in that finished the activity in
alive to devote only to the recording in the
study until his dissolution in 1970. Afterwards,
all his members shipped in successful
independent careers. Lennon Would be
murdered to the suburbs of his house of New
York in 1980, and Harrison would die of cancer
in 2001. McCartney And Starr still remain active.
During his years of study created some of his
best material, including the album Sgt. Pepper's
Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), considered by
many like a master work. Four decades after his

4.  The first influences obtained them of musicians
like Elvis Presley, Little Richard and Chuck Berry,
between others, whose songs they used to
interpret in numerous occasions in his
performances in alive. During his co-residence
with Little Richard in the Star Club of Hamburgo
in April of 1962, Richard taught them technical
to improve his songs.On Presley, Lennon said:
«At all had influenced me so much until I
listened the music of Elvis. If it had not existed
Elvis, The Beatles neither had existed».Other
influences of The Beatles in his principles
include also to Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran, Carl
Perkins, Roy Orbison, and The Everly Brothers.

5.  Originally began like group of style skiffle, but
early shipped in the rock and roll genuine of the
years 50. As time went on, his repertoire went
broadening until including an extensive variety
of music pop.

6.  In 1965, the king Isabel II appointed to the four Beatles
members of the Order of the British Empire. The film
Let It Be (1970) of The Beatles, won a Óscar in 1971 by
better original audible band. The Beatles have received
7 prizes Grammy and 15 prizes Ivor Novello by his
disks.They have been certified with 6 disks of
diamond, like this like 24 disks multi-platinum, 39 disks
of platinum and 45 disks of gold in the United
States, whereas in the United Kingdom have 4 disks
multi-platinum, 4 disks of platinum, 8 disks of gold and
1 disk of silver. The group was admitted in the Hall of
the Fame of the Rock and Roll in 1988. In 2008, the
magazine Billboard published a list of the artists that
more sold in the Hot 100 to celebrate the fiftieth
anniversary of the listof the United States: The Beatles
started in the position number one. In 2009, the
Association of the Industry Label of United States
certified that The Beatles had attained to sell more disks

7.  Please Please Me (1963)
 With the Beatles (1963)
 A Hard Day's Night (1964)
 Beatles for Sale (1964)
 Help! (1965)
 Rubber Soul (1965)
 Revolver (1966)
 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
 Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
 The Beatles (1968)
 Yellow Submarine (1969)
 Abbey Road (1969)
 Let It Be (1970)

9. Logotype of The Beatles with the T elongated downwards,
emphasizing the word «beat».

10.  Although Let It Be was the last album that
launched, the main part of his content was
recorded before Abbey Road.

11.  The 17 of February of 2010, EMI announced the
put in sale of the studies of Abbey Road, with
which expected to obtain gains above the 30
million £. However, the mobilization that caused
the news caused that the British Government
declared the studies historical monument, what

12.  An anecdote of a jewellery explains that during the
shooting of the film, Lennon walked by this street when
it saw that hundreds of fans approached him. Went in in
Asprey with the idea of slip away by the door back; to
justify his stay there, that did not last more of thirty
seconds, bought jewels by 600 £, to money of today,
some 10.000.
 The style of haircut "Beatle" was created by a friend of
the group called Astrid Kirscher, a German
photographer.
 The song "Yesterday" is the most recorded by different
artists in the history, with a record of 1300 editions.
 It was frequent to find in the notebook of evaluations of

14. The Indra Club in 2007. It was the first
club where acted The Beatles to his arrival

15. Registration to the entrance of the park
Strawberry Field in 2002, place that would inspire
an of the more famous songs of The Beatles.

16. Building of Apple in theº n
3 of Savile Row
(2007), place where
realized the famous
«concert in the roof»
during the sessions of Let
It Be in January of 1969.
It built in 1735 and the
home in his moment of
Lord Nelson, was bought
for harbor to Apple and a
part of the song “Let it Be”
it was recorded in his
basement, although the

17.  The studies of recording Abbey Road Studios (called EMI
Studios until 1970) are situated in the street of
London of Abbey Road. The group The Beatles recorded
almost the whole of his discography in them, and for the
cover of the album Abbey Road, decided to take a
photograph of the grouping while they crossed the step of
pedestrians situated in front of the studies. This image
was, and follows being, one of the images more

18.  The walls that carry the number 231 of the street Baker
refuge a shop dedicated to the English group. The fans
can find numerous articles of remember of the Beatles:
between them, copies of his albums of platinum in
edition limited, posters, caps like which carried John
Lennon and bustos of the "Fab four". To few steps of
this shop, in the street Marylebone, the four members
of the group were inmortalized in statues of wax in the

19.  In full centre of London, to some steps of Piccadilly
Circus, whose big luminous signs remember a bit to
Times Square in New York ,the number three of the
street Savile Row is known to have received the last
concert of the Beatles in January of 1969. John,
Paul, George and Ringo installed in the roof of
Apple Records, the label house founded by the
group. At present, the street enjoy of prestige by

20.  The study homonym of the street Abbey situate in
a residential neighbourhood rich in full centre of the
English capital. It received a lot of times to the
group, that recorded there most of his songs, as
"All you need is love" or "Love me do". In the walls
of the entrance of the study there are friendly
messages dedicated to the members of The
Beatles. All the years, the fans come also to deposit
flowers for conmemorar the anniversary of the
death of one of the members of the "Fab four".If

21.  In London, the Hard Rock Coffee situated in 150
Old Park Lane is a true exhibition on the rock and
the Beatles. In the subsoil expose memories of the
Beatles like the letters of the songs "Imagine" or
"Instant Karma" written manually by John Lennon.
In the walls of the coffee also occupy a place
preeminent some disks of platinum and statuettes

22.  The Royal Albert Hall, monument imposing famous
mainly by the quality of the concerts of classical music
that take place between his walls, receives also several
times to the year to the Bootleg Beatles, a group that
says to be the reincarnation of the English quartet.
Although never have recorded disks, the Bootleg
Beatles revive with frequency and very well the
successes of the Beatles. The Royal Albert Hall situate
in the street Kensington Gore of London (season of

24.  It have happened already 40 years since it was
taken the photograph . This image, that was
the cover of the goodbye like group of the
Beatles in 1969, converted this step of
pedestrians of Abbey Road, in London, in the
most famous of the world. So that the
photographer Ian McMillan have immortalized
this moment were necessary six shots and a
policeman that detained the traffic during 10
minutes, and since, this step of pedestrians in
Abbey Road is visited by 150.000 people each
year.
 Abbey Road, where besides situated the study
of recording, has converted in sanctuary and
place of pilgrimage in which the lovers of the
songs of the Beatles leave his print in walls and

25.  The famous step of pedestrians of Abbey Road is the
more portrayed of the history. In the albums of photos
of the trips to London didn‟t use to be missing the
instantaneous with different leading. Precisely the past
Saturday 8 of August, numerous supporters of the
Beatles massed in the place with reason of the 40
anniversary of the photo and many of them crossed by
this step of pedestrians emulating to Lennon,
McCartney, Harrison and Ringo Starr.
 All those interested in visiting the place and how no, do
you with the consequent instantaneous, have to know
that this street find in Sant John‟s Wood, in the zone of
the Westside of London. When going out of the season
of subway of St. John‟s Wood Station there is a street to
the right: Grove End Road. You will have to walk by her
until you see that you finish and is cut by another
street, that is not neither more neither least that Abbey
Road. The concrete place you it reveal the flash of the
cameras.

27.  A five minutes walk from Abbey Road is the house that
Paul McCartney bought in 1966 and still belongs to him.
It is located at 7 Cavendish Avenue in St. John Wood,
but you can see her not very well because it makes a
very high fence covering her. The Beatles were often
there after the recordings.
 The four Beatles shared a house in 57 of the Green
Street during the fall of 1963, but John soon moved
with his wife and Paul decided to move to turn home his
girlfriend Jane Asher. It was in this house where John
and Paul wrote some of the early successes of the
Group com "I Want to Hold Your Hand". Also here was
where Paul woke up with the melody of "Yesterday" in
his head, recalled with a slightly different from the
original lyrics, "Scrambled eggs, oh my darling you've
got lovely legs" (scrambled eggs, oh love you have
beautiful legs). This house is still there and is a

30.  An apartment with two bedrooms in Westminster, London (LN-
455) is at the end of the bustling Oxford Street, which places
him at the center of the commercial district of London. You can
walk to offices of Paul, MPL number 57 Wimpole Street, and
number 3 of Saville Row. Although is it cannot guarantee, Paul
sometimes goes through its offices and certainly is the place in
which it is easier to sit with the in London.
 A few meters from there, at Saint Anne's Court, is the door of
the Trident Sound Studios, where recorded in July 1968, Hey
Jude, and also famous songs like Bohemian Rhapsody or Your
song by Elton John. There went also The Rolling Stones, Marc
Bolan or Lou Reed.
 Walking straight to reach Broadwick Street, a curious landmark
place: access to the underground public toilet for Knights,
where Lennon, in his first public appearance with his glasses.
 Very close to where Paul lived with Jane Asher, this apartment

32.  July 1968. The war photojournalist Don
McCullin, portrays the Beatles through the streets of
London. The result is a compilation of 88
photographs, most of them unpublished so far, on A day
in the life of the Beatles, a book edited by the factory
Editorial.
 The Beatles posed offering his facet as more casual in
places like King's Cross, the East End, Cable Street, the
building of the Sunday Times, Whitechapel, Limehouse
and the House of Paul McCartney in St John's Wood. In
the course of the meeting it became clear that John
Lennon and Paul McCartney were the leaders, while
George Harrison was the most silent and Ringo seemed
to maintain a little outside.

37.  In terms more general, The Beatles changed
the form to listen the popular music and
experienced this paper in his proper lives. Of
what began like the whim of the
Beatlemanía, the quartet arrived to be
perceived by his young fans like the
representatives, even the creators, of the
ideals associated with the cultural
transformation. Like icons of the
counterculture of the decade of 1960,
converted in a catalyst of the bohemia and

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