Beatles

=//** ﻿ The Beatles **//= The Beatles were an English band that began with five people:John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe, and Pete Best. Sutcliffe eventually left the band. Best was also eventually replaced with Ringo Starr. The Beatles then consisted of Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, and Starr. They explored many different genres of music, but rock was their best. They got their name from either Lennon or Sutcliffe, who came up with the name the “Beetles” because it was similar to “The Crickets”, because they are both insects. John liked to play with puns decided to change it from “ Beetles” to “Beatles.” This was to suggest the “beat” or “beat of music”. John said in a 1964 interview, “it was beat and beetles, and when you said it people thought of crawly things, and when you read it, it was beat music.” Their first song “Love Me Do” was a hit, and got them noticed. They were well known and wildly liked among everyone not to mention most women adored them due to their handsome looks and charming ways. They had a quick rise to stardom that they held onto for awhile, till they broke up.Only McCartney and Starr are still live to this day.

toc ==About Each Band Mate ==  Stuart Sutcliffe-(bass) was a former Beatle, but he quit. He pursued a career as an artist, and he made praise for his paintings. He was also engaged Astrid Kirchherr. Sutcliffe was the one who seemed to get picked on, because people would say “he has no talent, and “he was an artless thump”. He usually stuck to root notes, and would often turn his back to the audience. His highest point in his Beatles career was when he sang “Love Me Tender” and started wearing tighter jeans, and clip-on-flip-up sunglasses.

Pete Best- (drums) was replaced by Starr. He was married to Kathy Best for 45 years and had two children. Best was convinced by McCartney to go to Hamburg with them, but lied to him so he wouldn’t ask for more money. Best spent three hours in prison and was deported for attempted arson.

John Lennon- (rhythm guitar, vocals) was part of the Quarrymen, which is how the Beatles originated. It was Lennon's band but he asked McCartney to join which he did, and latr so did Harrison, and Sutcliffe. Lennon was introduced to drugs and then used them regularly. While on a two year tour, Lennon wrote two books called In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works. Lennon was shot by Mark Chapman, in December 1980.

Paul McCartney-(bass guitar, vocals) Was a singer-songwriter, and composer. He became well known when he joined the Beatles. After the Beatles he launched his own solo career and made a band with his first wife Linda Eastman, called the “Wings”, which was successful. McCartney was named "most successful musician and composer in popular music history", according to the Guinness World Record book. He was put to the Rock Hall of Fame in 2000. Paul had a couple children the most known child is Jesse McCartney; who was born into to music business and became a hit. Paul McCartney has had a very successful career and is still going strong.

George Harrison-(lead guitar, vocals) was a singer-songwriter, actor and film producer. He was known as “the quiet Beatle”. After the bands break-up he had successful caree as a solo artist. He also worked with the Travelig Willburys then later as a film and record producer. He was ranked as number 21 in Rolling Stones magazines top “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.” Harrison followed and liked Indian culture and [|Hinduism] in the mid 1960’s and introduced it to the Beatles. He was married twice and had one son. He died in 2001 of lung cancer.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ringo Starr- (drums, vocals) was Bests’ replacement, and was a singer-songwriter, and an actor. In 2011 he was said to be the fifth best drummer of all time by <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rolling Stones. He starred in films during and after his career with the Beatles. He also had a successful solo career. He was featured on many TV documentaries, Hosted TV shows, and he also narrated the first two seasons of “ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.”

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">History
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline;">The Beatles originated in England, Liverpool. The Beatles released 13 albums over the years. They became an international hit, and they were officially together from 1962-1970. The Beatles first album “Please Please Me” was released March 22, 1963. By 1970 all the band mates wanted to quit, except Paul, who wanted to keep the band together, untill he realized that there was no hope and he then announced the Beatles were breaking up. The world was surprised to hear this news. The press and Beatles fans would always ask whenever given the chance whether the Beatles would have a re-union.

==<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Break up == <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Paul McCartney in a way let it be known the Beatles were breaking up. In 1970, he had expressed that he was separating, or that they were not all on the same page; the press took that and ran with it. On April 10, 1970 the press ran headlines announcing that Paul was leaving the band, and that they were through. John Lennon was upset, and angry that Paul announced the band was over when Lennon was ready to leave months before. Paul asked John, Ringo, and George to let him out of their contract with Allen Klein legally, but they said no. This led Paul to sue his other three band mates. Paul filed a suit against John, George, Ringo, Allen Klein and Apple to officially end the band and legally. After this it led to some name calling between John and Paul, and this became aware in their albums. And finally on January 9, 1975 the judge ruled that the band had come to an end legally. media type="youtube" key="L5r0Tg_Y_cM" width="420" height="276" align="center"

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//**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Introduction **//
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Beatles were a band that seemed to fill up the stores, and peoples home. They were popular and well loved for awhile. Women obsessed over them, and what they seemed to talk about was Beatles this...and Beatles this.... Their music lit up the charts, they always had multiple songs that were hits. The Beatles symbolize a change that happened in music history and how people would view the industry.

//**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Economic Developments **//
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Beatles career launched with their first single “I Want to Hold Your Hand” in 1962, which was first herd in United States in 1964. This decade was chaotic with process of the Vietnam War, racism, and also losing president John F. Kennedy. Americans did not have much hope at the time, but with the Beatles coming to America they could give them some kind of distraction. The Beatles influence on fashion, and music led to a few trends. People stopped getting haircuts that were rimmed around the ear, in other words their ears were being covered by their hair now. Also they stopped using hair grease and stopped combing back their hair off their foreheads and instead left it the way it fell or in a mop-style. And teen styles changed they now wore tight jeans, shirts with no collars, and also Beatle boots. This was seen as a rebellious style because many adults didn’t like and did not want their kids to have long hair, even schools had banned it for awhile. Their music sold as fast as they were putting it out according to Brian Epstein. Music sales started increasing, in the U.S. alone the sales were over $25 million in 1964. Advertisement companies spent millions advertising the Beatles, making them popular, along with broadcasting companies. The Beatles had seemed to take over broadcasting, their music seemed to be on repeat, and at times all you herd was the Beatles.

**//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Developments in Popular Culture //**
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">American listeners taste changed they were more open, and expanded their music variety. Instead of mainly Folksinger, [|Doo-wop], and Saxophone, they now were open to Mowtown sounds, Folk rock, and British Invasion. The Beatles changed the way people looked at music and expecially the way they looked at the rock genre.The Beatles played on the Ed Sullivan show, which was already a huge hit. When the Beatles played for the first time on the show that led to about 73 million viewers, which at the time was the largest viewers in the U.S. The 60’s also led to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Also Martin Luther King Jr. famous speech “I Have a Dream.” Not many performers wrote their own music, that is until the Beatles arrived, and changed the industry. They created their own music, and this to the rise of self-composing. They even convinced the Stones to write their own music so they could earn composer royalties.More and more bands started writing their own music. People started paying a lot of attention to the Beatles, it was so much that they were going out and buying unnecessary amounts of Beatles things.

**//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Developments in Society //**
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In the late 1960’s experimenting drugs became a huge socially acceptable thing, due to the [|countercultural revolution]. Younger people were starting to go against conservatism and mainstream liberalism. The Beatles also began to experiment with the idea of drugs. Rebellion was being more noticed, and as well more practiced. Some adults did not like the Beatles, because they thought the Beatles would lead their kids to act out against authority. Though the Beatls were pretty conservative, they even wrote songs that became anthems to the Peace Movement, though they did not start it. Harrison tried to get people to follow Hinduism, because he was big into it and their beliefs.The Beatles wrote songs like “Hey Jude,” “Revolution,” “Come Together,” and “Let it Be” that gave younger people hope, and inspired them. According to Jon Weiner Lennon wanted the Vietnam War to end, and he supported equality for blacks and women.

**//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Who influenced the Beatles //**
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Some of the artists that influenced the Beatles was Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, [|Little Richard], and [|Buddy Holly], who of all which were American singers. Elvis Presley was their main idol and he happened to be very popular in the 50’s which is ironic, because he didn't seem to like their music. These artists were good, and people liked them, they are part of the reason that Beatlemania happened.

//**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Who the Beatles influenced **//
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Beatles influenced teens mostly and led them to try and copy the Beatles style. Adults however liked them, or at least some did, not all though. Teens were the most influenced because of their looks and how they were the newest, freshest, and coolest at the moment, and when their is something in style at the time teens tend to copy or act as if they had the style first. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Works Cited " BBC News | MUSIC | The Beatles' musical footprints." BBC News - Home. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 May 2011. []. " Daytrippin' Beatles Magazine." Daytrippin' Beatles Magazine. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 May 2011. []. "Revolution, now the interest in their lyrics was taking a serious turn. When Lennon's song. "The Beatles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 May 2011. []. "1960s - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 1 June 2011. []. "Beatles History, The Complete Online Biography of The Beatles." Beatles History, The Complete Online Biography of The Beatles. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 May 2011. []. "Beatles Unlimited." Beatles Unlimited. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 May 2011. []. "Beatles, The: Beatles influance on society, british teenagers, billboard chart." AllExperts Questions & Answers. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 May 2011. []. "The Beatles." Home. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 May 2011. []. "The Beatles - Biography." The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). N.p., n.d. Web. 27 May 2011. <http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1397313/bio>. "The Beatles - Impact, Influence and Empowerment." Suite101.com: Online Magazine and Writers' Network. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 May 2011. []. "The Beatles Facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles about The Beatles." Encyclopedia - Online Dictionary | Encyclopedia.com: Get facts, articles, pictures, video. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 May 2011. []. "The Beatles: A Cultural "Revolution"." The Beatles: From Abbey Road To Cyberspace. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 May 2011. []. "The Impact of The Beatles - The Beatles' influence on popular culture - Zimbio." Zimbio - Interactive Magazine. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 May 2011. <http://www.zimbio.com/The+Beatles'+influence+on+popular+culture/articles/5/The+Impact+of+The+Beatles>.