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The English ROCK MUSIC group The Beatles gave the 1960s its characteristic musical spirit and had a profound influence on the class of popular music, equaled by few performing artists. The guitar players John Winston Lennon, Oct. 9, 1940 ; James Paul McCartney, June 18, 1942 ; and George Harrison, Feb. 25, 1943 ; and the drummer Ringo Starr, Richard Starkey, July 7, 1940, were all born and raised in Liverpool. Lennon and McCartney had played together in a group called The Quarrymen. With Harrison, they formed their ain group, The Silver Beatles, in 1959, and Starr joined them in 1962. As The Beatles, they developed a local followers in Liverpool nines, and their first recordings, “ Love Me Do ” ( 1962 ) and “ Please Please Me ” ( 1963 ) , rapidly made them Britain ‘s top stone group. Their early music was influenced by the American stone vocalists Chuck BERRY and Elvis PRESLEY, but they infused a banal musical signifier with freshness, verve, and humor.

The release of “ I Want to Keep Your Hand ” in 1964 marked the beginning of the phenomenon known as “ Beatlemania ” in the United States. The Beatles ‘ first U.S. circuit aroused a cosmopolitan rabble adulation. Their concerts were scenes of mass worship, and their rec

ords sold in the 1000000s. Their first movie, the advanced A Hard Day ‘s Night ( 1964 ) , was received enthusiastically by a broad audience that included many who had ne’er earlier listened to sway music.

Composing their ain stuff ( Lennon and McCartney were the major originative forces ) , The Beatles established the case in point for other stone groups to play their ain music. Experimenting with new musical signifiers, they produced an extraordinary assortment of vocals: the childishly simple “ Yellow Submarine ” ; the acrimonious societal commentary of “ Eleanor Rigby ” ; lampoons of earlier dad manners ; new electronic sounds ; and composings that were scored for cellos, fiddles, huntsman’s horns, and sitars, every bit good as for conventional guitars and membranophones. Some partisans cite the albums Rubber Soul ( 1965 ) and Revolver ( 1966 ) as the vertex of Beatle art, although Sergeant Pepper ‘s Lonely Hearts Club Band ( 1967 ) , possibly the first stone album designed thematically as a individual musical entity, is more by and large considered their victory. The group disbanded in 1970, after the release of their concluding album, Let It Be, to prosecute single callings. On Dec. 8, 1980, John Lennon was fatally shot in New York City. In 1991, Paul McCartney ‘s classical composing Liverpool Oratorio was performed to some acclamation in Britain and the United States.

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