4. In March 1957, John Lennon, then aged sixteen, formed a
skiffle group with several friends from Quarry Bank High
School in Liverpool. They briefly called themselves the
Blackjacks, before changing their name to the Quarrymen
after discovering that another local group were already using
the name.
Fifteen-year-old Paul McCartney joined them as a rhythm
guitarist shortly after he and Lennon met that July. In
February 1958, McCartney invited his friend George
Harrison to watch the band. The fifteen-year-old auditioned
for Lennon, impressing him with his playing, but Lennon
initially thought Harrison was too young for the band.
After a month of Harrison's persistence, during a second
meeting (arranged by McCartney), he performed the lead
guitar part of the instrumental song "Raunchy" on the upper
deck of a Liverpool bus, and they enlisted him as their lead
guitarist.
5. By January 1959, Lennon's Quarry Bank friends had left the group, and he began
his studies at the Liverpool College of Art. The three guitarists, billing themselves
as Johnny and the Moondogs, were playing rock and roll whenever they could
find a drummer.
Lennon's art school friend Stuart Sutcliffe, who had just sold one of his paintings
and was persuaded to purchase a bass guitar with the proceeds, joined in January
1960, and it was he who suggested changing the band's name to Beatals, as a
tribute to Buddy Holly and the Crickets. They used this name until May, when
they became the Silver Beetles.
By early July, they had refashioned themselves as the Silver Beatles, and by the
middle of August shortened the name to the Beatles.
Sutcliffe decided to leave the band in early 1961. and resume his art studies in
Germany. While studying in Germany, Sutcliffe began suffering from intense
headaches and experiencing acute light sensitivity. In February 1962, he collapsed
in the middle of an art class after complaining of head pains. German doctors
performed tests, but were unable to determine the exact cause of his headaches.
After collapsing again on 10 April 1962, he was taken to the hospital, but died in
the ambulance on the way there. The cause of death was later found to have been
a brain haemorrhage – severe bleeding in the right ventricle of his brain.
Stuart Sutcliffe
6. during one of the group's frequent
performances at The Cavern Club,
they encountered Brian Epstein, a
local record-store owner and
music columnist. He later recalled:
"I immediately liked what I heard.
They were fresh, and they were
honest, and they had what I
thought was a sort of presence ...
star quality."33]
Epstein courted the band over the
next couple of months, and they
appointed him as their manager.
However, three months later,
producer George Martin signed the
Beatles to EMI's Parlophone label.
Martin's first recording session with
the Beatles took place at EMI's
Abbey Road Studios in London on
6 June 1962
7. Martin immediately complained to Epstein about Best's
poor drumming. Already contemplating Best's dismissal,
the Beatles replaced Peter in mid-August with Ringo
Starr, who left Rory Storm and the Hurricanes to join
them. On a 4 September session at EMI yielded a
recording of "Love Me Do" featuring Starr on drums, but
a dissatisfied Martin hired drummer Andy White for the
band's third session a week later, which produced
recordings of "Love Me Do„. Martin initially selected the
Starr version of "Love Me Do" for the band's first single
Epstein, to maximise the Beatles' commercial potential,
encouraged them to adopt a professional approach to
performing.Lennon recalled him saying, "Look, if you
really want to get in these bigger places, you're going to
have to change – stop eating on stage, stop swearing, stop
smoking ...." Lennon said: "We used to dress how we
liked, on and off stage. He'd tell us that jeans were not
particularly smart and could we possibly manage to wear
proper trousers, but he didn't want us suddenly looking
square. He'd let us have our own sense of individuality.„
On 11 February 1963, the Beatles recorded ten songs
during a single studio session for their debut LP, Please
Please Me.
9. Beatlemania was the fanaticism
surrounding the English rock band the
Beatles in the 1960s. The group's
popularity grew in the United Kingdom
throughout 1963, propelled by the
singles "Please Please Me", "From Me
to You" and "She Loves You". By
October, the press adopted the term
"Beatlemania" to describe the scenes of
adulation that attended the band's
concert performances. From the start of
1964, their world tours were
characterised by the same levels of
hysteria and high-pitched screaming by
female fans, both at concerts and
during the group's travels.
10. "More popular than Jesus" is part of a remark made by John Lennon of the Beatles
in a March 1966 interview, in which he argued that the public were more infatuated
with the band than with Jesus, and that Christian faith was declining to the extent
that it might be outlasted by rock music. It drew angry reactions from Christian
communities. Lennon's comments incited protests and threats, some radio stations
stopped playing Beatles songs, records were publicly burned, press conferences
were cancelled. Lennon apologised at a series of press conferences and explained
that he was not comparing himself to Christ.
Frustrated by the restrictions of Beatlemania and unable to hear
themselves play above their fans' screams, the group stopped touring and
became a studio-only band. Their popularity and influence expanded in
various social and political arenas, while Beatlemania continued on a
reduced scale from then and into the members' solo careers.
Beatlemania surpassed any previous examples of fan worship in its
intensity and scope. Initially, the fans were predominately young
adolescent females,
12. The Beatles have a core catalogue
consisting of 13 studio albums and
one compilation
• 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) ("The White
Album")
• Yellow Submarine (1969)
• Abbey Road (1969)
• Let It Be (1970)
• Past Masters (1988, compilation)
13. The Top Ten Beatles Songs of All Time
(ROLLING STONE)
• "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
• "A Day in the Life"
• "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
• "Strawberry Fields Forever"
• "Yesterday"
• "In My Life"
• "Something"
• "Hey Jude"
• "Let It Be"
• "Come Together"
14. Fictionalised
• A Hard Day's Night
(1964)
• Help! (1965)
• Magical Mystery Tour
(1967)
• Yellow Submarine
(1968) (brief cameo)
Documentaries and filmed
performances
• The Beatles at Shea Stadium
• Let It Be (1970)
• The Compleat Beatles (1982)
• The Beatles Anthology (1995)
• The Beatles: Eight Days a Week
(2016) (about Beatlemania and
touring years)
• The Beatles: Get Back (2021
15. Abbey Road is the eleventh studio album by the
English rock band the Beatles, released on 26
September 1969 by Apple Records. Named after the
location of EMI Studios in London, the cover features
the group walking across the street's zebra crossing,
an image that became one of the most famous and
imitated in popular music. At 11:35 that morning,
photographer Iain Macmillan was given only ten
minutes to take the photo while he stood on a step-
ladder and a policeman held up traffic behind the
camera. Macmillan took six photographs, which
McCartney examined with a magnifying glass before
deciding which would be used on the album sleeve.
After its release in 1969 fans thought there were
“secret messages” on the photo indicating Paul had
been killed in a car crash three years earlier.
16. The Beatles are the best-selling music act of
all time, with estimated sales of 600 million
units worldwide. They were inducted into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988, and all
four main members were inducted
individually. are regarded as the most
influential band of all time.
They were integral to the development of 1960s counterculture
and popular music's recognition as an art form. At the
beginning their musical style was SKIFFLE (Pop-Rock), then
Pop-Rock. As pioneers in recording, songwriting and artistic
presentation, the Beatles revolutionised many aspects of the
music industry and were often publicised as leaders of the era's
youth and sociocultural movements.
18. The Beatles broke up in 1970. Paul McCartney was the first one to leave the band. They decided to follow their own paths.
They had hits and flops but they were never so successfull as when they were together.
19. Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney are still alive. John Lennon was killed in 1980. When He and his wife Yoko Ono
arrived home from a party he was killed by Mark Chapman, a fan, in front of their house. George Harrison died in 2001
because of a lung cancer
20. Paul McCartney and George Harrison met in High
School when they were 11. Paul heard George
playing the guitar behind a bush and he was
impressed.
Richard Starky called himself Ringo Starr because he
used to wear a lot of rings.
Beatles is not an English word. It is a mix of the words Beat
(rythm) and Beetle (insect). John Lennon had a dream about
this name
