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The Beatles

Matkin Nikita

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Korobeinikova Zh. A

Perm, 2014

Contents

  1. Introduction……………………………………………………………...…… 3
  2. The Beatles
    1) History…………………………………………………………………….. 4
    2) Studio Style Evolution…………………………………………….……... 5
    3) Staff of Band………………………………………………………….…… 6
    4) Achievements…………………………………………………………...… 7
  3. My Research ....…………………………………………………………...... 9
  4. Conclusion...... 9
  5. The List of Liter...... 10

Introduction

I want to tell you about popular music rock-band “The Beatles”. The Beatleswere an Englishrockband that was formed inLiverpool, in 1960. WithJohn Lennon,Paul McCartney,George Harrison, andRingo Starr, they became regarded as the greatest and most influential act of the rock era.Rooted inskiffleand 1950srock and roll, the Beatles later experimented with severalgenres, ranging frompopballadsto psychedelic rock, often incorporatingclassicalelements in innovative ways. In the early 1960s, their enormous popularity first was emerged as "Beatlemania".

Starting in 1960, the Beatles built their reputation playing clubs in Liverpool andHamburgover a three-year period. ManagerBrian Epsteinmoulded them into a professional act and producerGeorge Martinenhanced their musical potential. They gained popularity in the United Kingdom after their first hit, "Love Me Do", in late 1962. They acquired the nickname the "Fab Four" as Beatlemania grew in Britain over the following year, and by early 1964 they had become international stars, leading the "British Invasion" of the United States pop market. From 1965 on, the Beatles produced what many critics had considered their finest material, including the innovative and widely influential albumsRubber Soul(1965),Revolver(1966),Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band(1967),The Beatles (White Album)(1968), andAbbey Road(1969). After theirbreak-upin 1970, they each enjoyed successful musical careers. Lennon wasshot and killedin December 1980, and Harrison died of lung cancer in November 2001. McCartney and Starr, the remaining members, remain musically active.

According to theRIAA, the Beatles are thebest-selling band in the United States, with 177 million certified units. They have had more number-one albums on the British charts and sold more singles in the UK than any other act. In 2008, the group toppedBillboardmagazine's list of the all time most successful "Hot 100" artists; as of 2014, they hold the record formost number-one hits on the Hot 100chart with 20. They have received 7Grammy Awards, anAcademy AwardforBest Original Scoreand 15Ivor Novello Awards. Collectively included inTimemagazine's compilation ofthe 20th century's 100 most influential people, they are thebest-selling bandin history, withEMI Recordsestimating sales of over one billion units. In 2004,Rolling Stoneranked the Beatles as the greatest artist of all time.

In our time Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr have solo career. Paul McCartney’s song “Cut Me Some Sluck” wan of The Best Rock song on Grammy 2014. The most intriguing event of the evening was at the Grammy's joint performance of Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney, who as members of The Beatles received an award for lifetime achievement.

History

McCartney met Lennon at a garden fete on6 July1957, and joined his band,The Quarrymen, into which McCartney also recruited Harrison, his 15 year old school chum. The band briefly split before regrouping. After going through several changes in name and band members, it finally became the Beatles in 1960. In 1962 they joined theEMI's Parlophonelabel. The Beatles' first full-length album,Please Please Me, was recorded within twelve consecutive hours. In 1964 they held the top five places onBillboard'sTop Pop Singles Chart, a feat which has never been repeated.

In 1965 they were instated asMembers of the Order of the British Empire. Lennon caused a great backlash against the Beatles the following year when in an interview he claimed thatChristianitywas dying and he lamented that the Beatles were 'more popular than Jesus.' Eventually he apologised, after being slammed by many religious groups, including theHoly See, having Beatles' records banned or burned across the American South, and receiving threats from groups such as theKu Klux Klan.

The Beatles performed their last concert before paying fans inCandlestick ParkinSan Francisco, on29 August1966. They then concentrated on recording and their compositions and musical experiments raised their artistic reputations remarkably while still being tremendously popular. However, the Beatles' financial fortunes took a turn for the worse when their manager,Brian Epstein, passed away on27 August1967, and the band's affairs began to unravel. The various members began to pursue their individual interests and got together less often. Their actual 'last' concert is considered to be a live appearance on the roof at the Apple studios in London in January 1969, which was known as the 'Get Back' sessions and featured on the 'Let it Be' album. In1969they recorded their last album,Abbey Road(although in 1970 various songs recorded earlier were compiled intoLet It Be). The band officially broke up in 1970, and any hopes of a reunion were crushed when Lennon was murdered byMark David Chapmanin 1980. However, a virtual reunion occurred in 1995 with the release of two original Lennon recordings which had the additional contributions of the remaining Beatles mixed in to create two hit singles: 'Free as a Bird' and 'Real Love'. Three albums of unreleased material and studio outtakes were also released, as well as a documentary and television miniseries, in a project known asThe Beatles Anthology.

Studio style evolution

The role of producerGeorge Martinwas one of the crucial elements in the success of the Beatles. He used his experience to bring out the potential in the group, where a lesser producer would have imposed his views and inhibited the creativity he recognised and nurtured. His earlier experience of producing recordings by acts ranging from Jimmy Shandto theGoonsprepared him for the open-minded, experimental approach to the studio which the group began to develop as they became more experienced. Martin's connection with the Goons had been impressive to the group, who were fans.

At the height of their fame in the mid-sixties, bolstered by the two filmsHelp!and, the band discontinued touring. The difficulty of performing to thousands of screaming fans who typically made so much noise that the music could not be heard had led to the disillusion with touring, and the group retired from live performance in 1966, to concentrate on making records. Their demands to create new sounds with every recording, the influence ofpsychedelicdrugs and the studio techniques of recording engineerGeoff Emerickresulted in the albumsRevolver(1966) and(1967), still widely regarded as classics. Particularly notable, along with the use of studio tricks such as sound processing, unconventional microphone placements, and vari-speed recording, was the Beatles' use of unconventional instruments for pop music, including string and brass elements, Indian instruments like thesitar,tape loopsand early electronic instruments.

The group were increasingly taking charge of their own production, and Paul McCartney's increasing dominance in this role played its part in the tensions that eventually split the group.

The stress of their fame was beginning to tell and the band was on the verge of splitting at the time of the release of The Beatles('The White Album'), with some tracks recorded by the band members individually, and Starr taking a two-week holiday — sometimes reported as a temporary break-up — in the middle of the recording session. By 1970, the band had split, with each of the members going on to solo careers with varying degrees of success.

Staff of Band

Paul McCartney was a player of the bass guitar, acoustic and electric guitars, piano and keyboard and over 40 other instruments. He also wrote more Beatles songs than any other member, including 'Yesterday', 'Blackbird', 'When I'm 64', 'Eleanor Rigby' and 'Let it Be' (some of their most well-known songs).

John Lennon could play different types of guitars, keyboards, harmonicas and horns. He experimented with psychedelic art and poetry and is known as a very innovative, imaginative song writer. The songs he wrote include 'Come Together', 'Girl ', 'Revolution' and 'Strawberry Fields'.

George Harrison was the lead guitarist and introduced many exotic instruments like the ukulele, Indian Sitars, flutes and Tampur drums. Harrison is known for his spirituality and creativity. He wrote 'Something', 'I me mine' and 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps', amongst other songs.

Ringo Starr was the drummer of the band. He sang 'Yellow Submarine' and various other songs. He is also well-known for his film career.

Achievements

  • The Beatles are the best-selling musical group of all time, estimated byEMIto have over one billion discs and tapes sold worldwide.
  • The Beatles have notched up the most multi-platinum selling albums for any artist or musical group (thirteen in the U.S. alone).
  • The Beatles have had more number one singles than any other musical group (23 inAustralia, 23 in The Netherlands, 22 inCanada, 21 inNorway, 20 in the U.S., and 18 inSweden). Ironically, the Beatles could easily have had even more number ones, because they were often competing with their own singles. For example, the Beatles' 'Penny Lane' and 'Strawberry Fields Forever' were released as a 'double A'-sided single, which caused sales and airplay to be divided between the two songs instead of being counted collectively. Even so, they reached number two with the singles. They even managed to hold separate releases by themselves off the top of the British chart in 1967 with Hello Goodbye at number 1 and Magical Mystery Tour E.P at number 2.
  • The Beatles have had more number one albums than any other group (19 in the U.S. and 15 in theUnited Kingdom).
  • The Beatles spent the highest number of weeks at number one in the albums chart (174 in the UK and 132 in the U.S.).
  • The most successful first week of sales for a double album (The Beatles AnthologyVolume 1, which sold 855,473 copies in the U.S. from21 Novemberto28 November1995).
  • In terms of charting positions, Lennon and McCartney are the most successful songwriters in history, with 32 number one singles in the U.S. for McCartney, and 26 for Lennon (23 of which were written together). Lennon was responsible for 29 Number One singles in the UK, and McCartney was responsible for 28 (25 of which were written together).
  • During the week of4 April1964, The Beatles held the top five positions on theBillboardsingles chart. No one had ever done anything like this before, and it is doubtful that the conditions will ever exist for anyone to do it again. The songs were 'Can't Buy Me Love', 'Twist and Shout', 'She Loves You', 'I Want to Hold Your Hand', and 'Please Please Me'.
  • The next week,11 April1964, the Beatles held fourteen positions on the Billboard Hot 100. Before the Beatles, the highest number of concurrent singles by one artist on the Hot 100 was nine (byElvis Presley,19 December1956).
  • The Beatles are the only artist to have 'back-to-back-to-back' number one singles onBillboard'sHot 100.Boyz II Menand Elvis Presley have succeeded themselves on the chart, but the Beatles are the only artist to 'three-peat'.
  • The Beatles' 'Yesterday' is the mostcovered songin history, appearing in theGuinness Book of Recordswith over three thousand recorded versions. It is also the most played song in the history of international radio.
  • The Beatles had the fastest selling single of all time with 'I Want To Hold Your Hand'. The song sold 250,000 units within three days in the U.S., one million in 2 weeks. (Additionally, it sold 10,000 copies per hour inNew York Cityalone for the first 20 days.)
  • The Beatles have the fastest sellingCDof all time with1. It sold over 13 million copies in four weeks.
  • The largest number of advance orders for a single, at 2.1 million copies in the U.S. for 'Can't Buy Me Love' (it sold 940,225 copies on its first day of release in the U.S. alone).
  • is the best selling album of all time in the UK (over 4.5 million copies sold).
  • With their performance atShea Stadiumin 1965, The Beatles set new world records for concert attendance (55,600+) and revenue. This was the first time in the history of popular music anyone had played in a proper stadium as opposed to a theatre or concert hall.
  • The Beatles broke television ratings records in the U.S. with their first appearance onThe Ed Sullivan Showwith over 70 million people viewing. Crime reportedly fell by a third during the duration of the transmission, although this eventually turned out to be false.
  • On12 June1965, the Beatles were made Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) by theQueen.
  • On30 June1966, the Beatles became the first musical group to perform at theNippon Budokan HallinTokyo. They performed five times in three days gathering audiences of about 10,000 per performance.
  • The Beatles appear five times in thetop 100 best-selling singles in the UK. No other group appears more than twice.

My Research

In our time old generations love The Beatles more, than young generations. But in our city Perm didn’t forget about English band. On 16th January Two Perm band organized a concert of Beatles songs in the Pushkin library. It was world The Beatles day.

I asked my friends and familiars about The Beatles, which Songs They love and how many time familiars are listening them. In our school not many purples listen them. It’s very sad. I asked people in the Internet which songs they love. According to a survey I made ​​a table:

The Names Of Albums / The Best Songs
Please Please Me / Love Me Do; Twist and Shout
With The Beatles / All My Loving; Money
A Hard Day’s Night / You Can’t Do That; A Hard Day’s Night
Beatles For Sale / Rock’n’Roll music; I’m A Loser
Help! / Yesterday; Help!; Ticket to Ride
Rubber Soul / Drive My Car; Michelle; Girl
Revolver / Eleanor Rigby; For No One
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely
Hearts Club Band / When I’m 64; Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
Magical Mystery Tour / Strawberry Fields Forever; Magical Mystery Tour
White Album (The Beatles) / BlackBird; Helter Skelter; Revolution 9
Yellow Submarine / All You Need is Love; Yellow Submarine
Abbey Road / Come Together; You Never Give Me Your Money.
Let It Be / I Me Mine; Let It Be; Two of Us

My Favorite Songs is “Eleanor Rigby” and “I’ve Just Seen A Face”.

Many People are listening The Beatles lifelong. I love them 2 ages.

Conclusion

The Beatles is The Greatest Music Group in all time. They left a trail in hearts of a lot of people, in the History of Music, in the History of World. Many Modern Groups say, that The Beatles inspire them. I think, World will remember The Beatles for a long time, because they are genius.

The List of Liter

  1. Astley, John (2006).Why Don't We Do It In The Road? The Beatles Phenomenon. The Company of Writers.ISBN0-9551834-7-2.
  2. Atlantic Publishing, Croxley Green; 2nd Revised edition edition (May 1, 2011)Illustrated Biography John Lennon.
  3. Braun, Michael (1964).Love Me Do: The Beatles' Progress(1995 reprint ed.). London: Penguin.ISBN0-14-002278-3.
  4. Lennon, Cynthia(2005).John. New York: Crown Publishers.ISBN978-0-307-33855-6.
  5. Turner, Steve(2005).A Hard Day's Write: The Stories Behind Every Beatles Song(3rd ed.). New York: Harper Paperbacks.ISBN0-06-084409-4.

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