THE BEATLES.

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THE BEATLES. History of the band.
by Nikolaeva Irina 6 "A"
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Presentation.
The four-member band from Liverpool, England,
known as The Beatles, became one of the most
popular rock and roll bands in history. In a
course of 8 years they changed not only rock and
roll, but also the face of all music forever.
Now almost all people know the names of those
great musicians. Thats name them here        
John Lennon (John Winston Lennon) - born October
9, 1940, Liverpool, England - died December 8,
1980, New York, USA         Paul McCartney
(James Paul McCartney) - born June 18, 1942,
Liverpool, England
       George Harrison - born February 25, 1943,
Liverpool, England - died November 30, 2001, Los
Angeles, USA        Ringo Starr (Richard
Starkey) - born July 7, 1940, Dingle, Liverpool,
England
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Before They Were The Beatles. 1957-1959   John
Lennon was just 17 when he formed his first band,
The Black Jacks. The band was made up entirely
of classmates at Quarry Bank Grammar School in
Liverpool, and almost immediately after they
started, they changed their name to The Quarry
Men. They played skiffle music, a mixture of
folk, jazz and blues which was popular in England
at the time.
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In the summer of 1957, The Quarry Men were
playing in a church hall when another member of
the band introduced Lennon to Paul McCartney,
then a 15-year-old left-handed guitar player. He
was immediately invited to join, which he did in
October, 1957.
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Another great musician, George Harrison, joined
to the band in February 1958. The Quarry Men
broke up early in 1959. Lennon and McCartney
continued their songwriting, but Harrison joined
another band called The Les Stewart Quartet.
The Quarry Men briefly reunited when
Harrison's group fell apart and he recruited
Lennon and McCartney to help him fulfill a
contract with Liverpool's Casbah Coffee Club.
After that Lennon, McCartney and Harrison
continued performing as Johnny and the
Moondogs.
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Pre-Beatlemania. 1960-1963 In 1960 Lennon,
McCartney and Harrison were joined by drummer
Pete Best and bassist Stu Sutcliffe, a friend of
Lennon's from the Liverpool Art School. They used
several different names like Long John and The
Beatles, The Silver Beetles, The Beat
Brothers before they became The Beatles, the
band which name became known throughout the
world.
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Stu Sutcliffe left the band after 18 months, so
it was Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Best who
met in June 1962 the producer George Martin.
Martin liked everything about the band except
Pete Best. Because of that Ringo Starr was
recruited to replace Best. In September, 1962,
the band's first single Love Me Do was
released, eventually reaching ?17 in the UK.
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Beatlemania. 1964-1965
By April, 1964, the band's singles occupied the
top five spots on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
That summer they toured New Zealand and
Australia, where their arrival in Adelaide was
greeted by a crowd estimated at more than
300,000. The first The Beatles movie, A Hard
Day's Night was released in 1964.
Beatlemania was responsible for the concept of
the stadium concert. More than 55-thousand
screaming fans (at the time, the most ever to
have attended a single concert) packed New York's
Shea Stadium in August 1965.
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It was a pivotal moment in their career. The
song Please Please Me soon topped the UK
charts. The Beatles progressed artistically and
commercially with each successive record. On
February 9, 1964 they appeared on the American
television program The Ed Sullivan Show. The
show became the highest rated show in television
history to that date. It was also claimed that
there was not one reported crime during the time
the performed.
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Beginning of the End. 1966-1968 The band released
just two albums in 1966. In the summer of that
year the band was attacked by an angry crowd in
the Philippines after turning down an invitation
to breakfast at the Presidential Palace. That
disastrous tour had no sooner ended when Lennon
set off a huge wave of record burning protests
when he suggested in an interview that
"Christianity is dying" and that The Beatles "are
more popular than Jesus now." Their double album,
The Beatles (also known as The White Album)
was released in November 1968.
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Two months later all the members of the band
were honored with Members of the Order of the
British Empire, one of the highest honors
bestowed in the UK, usually to military and
government officials. The Beatles' second
movie, Help! came out in 1965, and the
soundtrack was one of the four albums the band
released that year.
Press here to listen to the song Help ?
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The End. 1969-1970
 Disagreements and disharmony among band members
had been gradually increasing, become especially
apparent during the White Album recording
sessions. Their last recording session followed
in August, 1969. In September 1969, Lennon told
the band that he was leaving.   The band's
breakup was announced in April 1970.
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Life After The Beatles. 1970-present.   All four
of The Beatles carried on with successful solo
careers after the breakup of The Beatles. John
Lennon released seven albums between 1970 and
1980. An additional album, Milk and Honey, was
released (in 1984) after Lennon's death.   George
Harrison released a dozen solo albums and
produced films through his company, Handmade
Films. Harrison died of cancer at the age of 58
in November 2001.   Ringo Starr has released
nearly two dozen albums and appeared in about the
same number of films since the breakup of The
Beatles.   Paul McCartney has been the most
prolific ex-Beatle as a solo artist. He continues
to tour and record and he is really one of the
most successful musicians in history.  
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In addition to the 23 albums released during the
band's life (1960-1970) there have been more than
150 compilations, recorded interviews and videos
issued. Hundreds of books have been written about
their personal lives, their music, and their
influence on pop culture and rock music.
Their original record label, EMI and the
Guinness Book of World Records estimate that more
than 1-billion The Beatles albums, singles and
CDs have been sold worldwide.
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And the list is going on The latest THE BEATLES
album is LOVE, which was released in November
2006.
The Beatles music still loved by hundreds of
millions of people all over the world.
Discography
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The End
music by The Beatles - Please Please Me. -
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