Jura Kuzmin

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• Jura Kuzmin
• group 281

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The Beatles

• History
• About musicians
• Musical style and evolution
• Legacy
• Awards and recognition
• Discography
• Conclusion

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• The Beatles was one of the most famous rock band
  in the world. In my opinion, The Beatles was a
  perfect band, which had a very good music.
• The Beatles was an English rock band, formed in
  Liverpool in 1960 and one of the most
  commercially successful and critically acclaimed
  acts in the history of popular music. From 1962
  the group consisted of
• John Lennon (rhythm guitar, vocals)
• Paul McCartney (bass guitar, vocals)
• George Harrison (lead guitar, vocals)
• Ringo Starr (drums, vocals).

History
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• The Beatles developed in Liverpool clubs, and
  their first recordings, "Love Me Do" (1962) and
  "Please, please Me" (1963), quickly made them
  Britain's top rock group.
• Their early compositions were influenced by the
  American rock singers Chuck BERRY and Elvis
  PRESLEY, but they infused a hackneyed musical
  form with freshness, vitality, and wit.
• The release of "I Want to Hold Your Hand" in
  1964 marked the beginning of the phenomenon known
  as "Beatlemania" in the United States. The
  Beatles' first U.S. tour aroused a universal mob
  adulation.
• Their concerts were scenes of mass worship, and
  their records sold in the millions.

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John Lennon

• John Winston Ono Lennon (9 October 1940 8
  December 1980) was an English rock musician.
• Lennon revealed a rebellious nature and an
  acerbic wit in his music, his writing, on film
  and at press conferences and interviews. He was
  controversial through his work as a peace
  activist and visual artist, along with his wife
  Yoko Ono. After The Beatles broke up in 1970,
  Lennon enjoyed a commercially successful and
  critically acclaimed solo career.

After his "retirement" in 1975 to educate his
son Sean Lennon reemerged in 1980 with a comeback
album, Double Fantasy, but was murdered less than
one month after its release. The album won the
1981 Grammy Award for Album of the Year and is
Lennon's best-selling studio album at three
million shipments in the US.
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Paul McCartney
Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE (born 18 June 1942)
is an English singer-songwriter, composer,
multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record and
film producer, poet, painter, and animal rights
and peace activist. McCartney gained worldwide
fame as a member of The Beatles. McCartney and
Lennon formed one of the most influential and
successful songwriting partnerships. After
leaving The Beatles, McCartney launched a
successful solo career and formed the band Wings
with his first wife, Linda Eastman, and
singer-songwriter Denny Laine. McCartney
released a large catalogue of songs as a solo
singer and took part in projects to help
international charities.
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George Harrison
George Harrison, (25 February 1943 29 November
2001) was an English rock guitarist. Often
referred to as "the quiet Beatle". Following the
band's breakup, he had a successful career as a
solo artist and also as a film and record
producer. In addition to his solo work, Harrison
co-wrote two hits for Ringo Starr, as well as
songs for the Traveling.
Harrison embraced Indian culture and Hinduism in
the mid 1960s. Besides being a musician, he was
also a record producer and co-founder of the
production company HandMade Fils. Harrison died
of lung cancer in 2001.
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Ringo Starr
Richard Starkey, (born 7 July 1940), better
known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an
English musician.
When the band formed in 1960, Starr belonged to
another Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the
Hurricanes. He became The Beatles' drummer in
1962, taking over from Pete Best.
Starr is the most documented and critically
acclaimed actor-Beatle, playing a central role in
several Beatles films, and appearing in numerous
other movies, both during and after his career
with The Beatles.
He has also been featured in a number of TV
documentaries, hosted TV shows, and narrated the
children's television series Thomas the Tank
Engine Friends.
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Musical style and evolution

• Originating as a skiffle group, The Beatles soon
  embraced 1950s rock and roll. The Beatles made
  innovative use of technology, treating the studio
  as an instrument in itself.

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Legacy
The Beatles' influence on popular culture was
immense.
The Beatles' musical innovations, as well as
their commercial success, inspired musicians
worldwide
The Beatles changed the way people listened to
popular music and experienced its role in their
lives. The group grew up to be perceived by their
young fans across the industrialized world as the
representatives, even the embodiment, of ideals
associated with cultural transformation.
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Awards and recognition

• In 1965, Queen Elizabeth II appointed the four
  Beatles Members of the Order of the British
  Empire (MBE).The Beatles film Let It Be (1970)
  won the 1971 Academy Award for Best Original Song
  Score. The Beatles have received 7 Grammy Awards
  They have been awarded 6 Diamond albums, as well
  as 24 Multi-Platinum albums, 39 Platinum albums
  and 45 Gold albums in the United States, while in
  the UK they have 4 Multi-Platinum albums, 4
  Platinum albums, 8 Gold albums and 1 Silver
  album.
• The group were inducted into the Rock and Roll
  Hall of Fame in 1988. In 2008, Billboard magazine
  released a list of the all-time top-selling Hot
  100 artists to celebrate the US singles chart's
  fiftieth anniversaryThe Beatles ranked number
  one.

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Discography

• 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)
• The Beatles (aka White Album) (1968)
• Yellow Submarine (1969)
• Abbey Road (1969)
• Let It Be (1970)

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Conclusion

• The most famous band in the world, The Beatles
  changed the shape of popular music when they
  arrived in the early 1960s.
• To sum up, I would like to say, that The Beatles
  is my favuorite band, which has unusual music
  unreal style.