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 British rock 'n' roll group founded in Liverpool during the late 1950s by John Lennon (guitar) and Paul McCartney (guitar), with George Harrison(guitar), Stu Sutcliffe (bass), and Pete Best (drums). Although initially a skiffle band, playing a British variation on American folk music, the band -- which went under several names before arriving at The Beatles -- incorporated numerous American rock 'n' roll, rhythm-and-blues, and pop music influences in their playing and songwriting, most notably the sounds of Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Arthur Alexander, among many others. By the early 1960s, they'd developed significant popularity in Hamburg, Germany, where dozens of Liverpool bands were booked into local clubs, and this soon translated to success in Liverpool, where their mixture of solid American rock 'n roll and careful music articulation made them unusual among the city's music scene. Sutcliffe left the band in 1961 and McCartney took over on bass. After taking on Brian Epstein as their manager, who got them a hearing from George Martin, the head of EMI Records' tiny Parlophone label, the band was signed to a recording contract in mid 1962. Ringo Starr replaced Best on drums soon after, and the group's line-up was complete. By the spring of 1963, their singles and albums were breaking all previous sales records in England, and they broke into America in February of 1964 with an appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, followed by a whirlwind tour. The group had been signed to do a movie late in 1963, and through a miracle of good luck, they were turned over to producer Walter Shenson, director Richard Lester, and screenwriter Alun Owen, who came up with A Hard Day's Night, probably the best rock 'n' roll movie ever made. This film, a black-and-white documentary-style fictionalized account of the fishbowl-lives that the Beatles were leading during the first wave of Beatlemania, was popular with parents as well as their teenaged children, and critics loved it as well (Andrew Sarris called it "the Citizen Kane of juke box movies"). The mix of the four personalities -- Ringo's honest, earthy clownish presence, George's cutting, funny personality, Paul's pleasant, engaging presence, and John's snide, sarcastic wit -- won over audiences around the world. |
 
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Albums
Yellow Submarine
01. Yellow Submarine
02. Hey Bulldog
03. Eleanor Rigby
04. Love You To
05. All Together Now
06. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
07. Think For Yourself
08. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
09. With A Little Help From My Friends
10. Baby You're a Rich Man
11. Only A Northern Song
12. All You Need Is Love
13. When I'm Sixty Four
14. Nowhere Man
15. It's All Too Much
Anthology 3
01. A Beginning
02. Happiness Is A Warm Gun
03. Helter Skelter
04. Mean Mr. Mustard
05. Polythene Pam
06. Glass Onion
07. Junk
08. Piggies
09. Honey Pie
10. Don't Pass Me By
11. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
12. Good Night
13. Cry Baby Cry
14. Blackbird
15. Sexy Sadie
16. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
17. Hey Jude
18. Not Guilty
19. Mother Nature's Son
20. Glass Onion
21. Rocky Raccoon
22. What's The New Mary Jane
23. Step Inside Love/Los Paranoias
24. I'm So Tired
25. I Will
26. Why Don't We Do It In The Road
27. Julia
Anthology 2
Disc1
01. Real Love
02. Yes It Is
03. I'm Down
04. You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
05. If You've Got Trouble
06. That Means A Lot
07. Yesterday
08. It's Only Love
09. I Feel Fine
10. Ticket To Ride
11. Yesterday
12. Help!
13. Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby
14. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
15. I'm Looking Through You
16. 12-Bar Original
17. Tomorrow Never Knows
18. Got To Get You Into My Life
19. And Your Bird Can Sing
20. Taxman
21. Eleanor Rigby (strings only)
22. I'm Only Sleeping (rehearsal)
23. I'm Only Sleeping (take 1)
24. Rock And Roll Music
25. She's A Woman
Disc2
01. Strawberry Fields Forever (demo sequence)
02. Strawberry Fields Forever (take 1)
03. Strawberry Fields Forever (take 7 & edit piece)
04. Penny Lane
05. A Day In The Life
06. Good Morning Good Morning
07. Only A Northern Song
08. Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! (takes 1 & 2)
09. Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! (take 7)
10. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
11. Within You Without You (instrumental)
12. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (reprise)
13. You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)
14. I Am The Walrus
15. The Fool On The Hill (demo)
16. Your Mother Should Know
17. The Fool On The Hill (take 4)
18. Hello, Goodbye
19. Lady Madonna
20. Across The Universe
Anthology
Disc1
01. Free As A Bird
02. Speech-John Lennon
03. That'll Be The Day
04. In Spite Of All The Danger
05. Speech-Paul Mc Cartney
06. Hallelujah I Love Her So
07. You'll Be Mine
08. Cayenne
09. Speech-Paul
10. My Bonnie
11. Ain't She Sweet
12. Cry For A Shadow
13. Speech-John
14. Speech-Brian Epstein
15. Searchin'
16. Three Cool Cats
17. The Sheik Of Araby
18. Like Dreamers Do
19. Hello Little Girl
20. Speech-Brian Epstein
21. Besame Mucho
22. Love Me Do
23. How Do Yu Do It
24. Please Please Me
25. One After 909
26. One After 909
27. Lend Me You Comb
28. I'll Get You
29. Speech-John
30. I Saw Her Standing There
31. From Me To You
32. Money (That's What I Want)
33. You Really Got A Hold On Me
34. Roll Over Beethhoven
Disc2
01. She Loves You
02. Till There Was You
03. Twist And Shout
04. This Boy
05. I Want To Hold Your Hand
06. Speech-Eric Morecambe And Ernie Wise
07. Moonlight Bay
08. Can't Buy Me Love
10. You Can't Do That
11. And I Love Her
12. A Hard Day's Night
13. Wanna Be You Man
14. Long Tall Sally
15. Boys
16. Shout
17. I'll Be Back (Demo)
18. I'll Be Back (Complete)
19. You Know What To Do
20. No Reply (Demo)
21. Mr Moonlight
22. Leave My Kitten Alone
23. No Reply
24. Eight Days A Week (False Starts)
25. Eight Days A Week
26. Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!
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