Their influence on the modern world never stopped. Numbers may only show the tip of the iceberg record sales, shows admissions, top hits, etc.
As image-makers and role models they pushed boundaries in lifestyle and business, affecting customers behavior and consumption beyond the entertainment industry by turning all life into entertainment. A brilliant blend of music and lyrics in their songs made influence on many minds by carrying messages like: give peace a chance and people working it out. A message more powerful than political control, it broke through second and third world censorship and regulations and set many millions free.
When asked about his business model, Steve Jobs replied: My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each other's negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts. Great things in business are never done by one person, they are done by a team of people. The Beatles made impact on human history, because their influence has been liberating for generations of nowhere men living in misery beyond the Iron Curtain.
Something in their songs and images appealed to everybody who wanted to become free as a bird. Their songs carrying powerful ideas of real love, peace, help, and imagination evoked creativity that outperformed the rusty Soviet propaganda and contributed to breaking chains and walls in the minds of millions. The Beatles expressed themselves in beautiful and liberating words of love, happiness, freedom, and revolution, and carried those messages to people across the universe.
Their songs and images helped many freedom-loving people to come together for revolutions in Prague and Warsaw, Beijing and Bucharest, Berlin and Moscow. The Beatles has been an inspiration for those who take the long and winding road to freedom. Petersburg where the Communist Revolution took place, just imagine.
In the Entertainment magazine poll named The Beatles the most iconic entertainers of the 20th Century. He delivered a live performance of The Beatles 's timeless hit "Hey Jude" and engaged the crowd of people from all over the world to join his band in a sing along finale.
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Edit The Beatles. Showing all 53 items. Jump to: Overview 1 Mini Bio 1 Trivia The most successful pop group of the 20 century; they changed popular culture forever. This famous lineup is also known as the "Fab Four" while many other musicians claimed the "Fifth Beatle" status. Those other musicians who performed with The Beatles on various gigs, tours, recordings, and on part-time basis were: singer Tony Sheridan, bassist Stuart Sutcliffe, guitarist Eric Clapton , drummers Pete Best , Andy White, Tommy Moore, Jimmy Nicol, and Neil Aspinall on harmonica and percussion, assistant and Hammond organ player Mal Evans, electric piano player Nicky Hopkins, and pianist Billy Preston, the only artist to receive joint credit on a Beatles record.
The four Beatles sometimes referred to Brian Epstein as the fifth Beatle, albeit the label is now more often applied to George Martin , who produced nearly all the Beatles recordings, made arrangements and orchestrations, and played piano on several songs.
Both Ringo Starr and George Harrison were singled out for praise for their performances in the first Beatles movie, A Hard Day's Night ; manager and former drama student Brian Epstein predicted that Starr would turn out to have considerable acting ability. He did indeed begin a second career in movies as the Beatles broke up, while bandmate Harrison first befriended the Monty Python comedy troupe, then became a movie producer after he financed the Pythons' Monty Python's Life of Brian The Beatles stopped touring in To promote their new albums, they made "promos" - a predecessor of music videos.
Individual members of The Beatles sometimes appeared on TV to give interviews. Their few live performances were for cameras, and invited audiences. Their rooftop show in London was for whoever could hear them, on the street below, and was their last-ever public performance. Their initial recording contract with Parlophone Records in England a division of EMI was for a series of singles, at a minimal royalty rate.
After "Please Please Me" became a hit, EMI gave them a full five-year contract for singles and albums, and better royalties. John Lennon had already effectively quit the Beatles, but agreed to keep mum about it until the deal was complete; Paul McCartney announced the debut of his first solo album a few months later. The official dissolution of The Beatles was final in Their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan show actually wasn't the first time the Beatles had been seen on American television.
Sullivan gave them their first live TV appearance in America, after personally contacting Cronkite to ask about them. George Harrison nearly missed their first Ed Sullivan show, because he'd come down with the flu. He spent much of their rehearsal time sick in bed at the hotel, and only made the show after a doctor came to their suite with enough medications to get him through the performance.
He was substituted by Beatles road manager Neil Aspinall during rehearsals. Ed Sullivan jokingly threatened to put on a Beatle wig himself and appear with the band, if Harrison wasn't able to perform.
Their infamous "butcher cover" for the "Yesterday and Today" album came about from the Beatles' disdain for photo sessions, and also the way Capitol Records in America tended to "butcher" their British LPs in repackaging. Capitol's producers used to skim tracks off two or three albums, add a stereo mix of their newest single, and issue the results as their "latest album", ignoring the work the Beatles and producer George Martin had put into crafting the earlier ones. Protests from fans, parents, and radio DJs over the cover design forced Capitol to change the photo - and soon after, they changed their issuing and packaging policies.
The joke spoofed both the grandiose offers made by Sid Bernstein and other promoters to the Beatles to perform again through those years, and the relatively small budget SNL was given to bring on top musical acts.
On one show night, John and Paul who was visiting John in New York happened to be watching, and joked about going down to the studio, just for a laugh. George Harrison did actually appear on another night; a mock argument happened on camera when he was told he couldn't collect the whole fee, since the offer was only for the whole band.
George Harrison was the only Beatle who had a child born out of wedlock, his son, Dhani Harrison, was born one month before he married second wife, Olivia Trinidad Arias, who became Olivia Harrison. George was previously married to Pattie Boyd from - ; they did not have children. One of the reasons their "White Album" whose formal title was simply "The Beatles" was a double album with thirty-three songs was because the band had misinterpreted their contract renewal.
Since the deal with EMI was for a minimum of seventy recorded songs within nine years either as a group or as solo artists , they sought to deliver those seventy recordings as early as possible, then look for another deal.
Allen Klein , their manager, pointed out to the band that however early those songs were delivered, each member was still under exclusive contract to EMI until The fact that they had submitted the required number of songs between the "White Album", "Abbey Road", the in-progress "Let It Be", recent singles, and solo projects by the fall of , however, gave them a bargaining chip for renegotiations.
The Beatles were the first rock-n-roll performers to be immortalized in London's Madame Tussaud's waxwork museum.
The band's personal tailor Dougie Millings supplied the suits for the wax effigies. At the time of writing they remain the only band to have won two Brit British Phonographic Industry Awards for their Outstanding Contribution to Music, in and in In addition, they are the only band which has had two members receive the Outstanding Contribution Award individually, John Lennon posthumously in and Paul McCartney in Geoff Emerick , a principal recording engineer on The Beatles ' classic "Sgt.
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" , estimates that the entire album took hours to complete over a period of days. When "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" was released in , it was the first album to feature printed lyrics of all songs on its sleeve. The band's performance of their number one hit song "Ticket to Ride" on Top of the Pops was wiped by the BBC and the only footage of it that is known to still exist features in Doctor Who: The Executioners The Beatles were best known from early on for their stage performances, but they came to dislike performing live, as their popularity increased.
They were used to playing whatever music they chose, but had to stick to their own songs to promote record sales. What had been an hour-plus show was cut to minutes, not allowing the band their usual interaction or showmanship.
Their stage amplifiers were suited to nightclubs and theaters, not the stadiums or amphitheaters public demand required, and it was impossible for the Beatles to hear each other onstage - even without the nonstop screaming from the crowds. In-house sound systems were rare, primitive, and also lacking in volume.
Higher-powered amplifiers were not yet available. The music suffered under these conditions, and sometimes became a pantomime, with Ringo Starr playing only every other beat, and the rest of the band trying to just start and end songs at the same time. The backstage atmosphere was usually a rowdy party scene, and lost its appeal over time.
After the Beatles stopped touring in , their few live performances were for cameras, and invited audiences. Their rooftop show was for whoever could hear them, on the street below, and was their last-ever public performance. In , Billboard magazine released a list of the all-time top-selling Hot artists to celebrate the US singles chart's fiftieth anniversary, with the Beatles at number one.
The Beatles were collectively included in Time magazine's compilation of. Aged sixteen, singer and guitarist John Lennon formed the skiffle group The Quarrymen with some Liverpool schoolfriends in March When McCartney in turn invited George Harrison to watch the group the following February, the fourteen-year-old joined as lead guitarist.
By , Lennon's schoolfriends had left the group, he had begun studies at the Liverpool College of Art and the three guitarists were playing rock and roll whenever they could get a drummer. Joining on bass in January, Lennon's fellow student Stuart Sutcliffe suggested changing the band name to "The Beetles" as a tribute to Buddy Holly and The Crickets, and they became "The Beatals" for the first few months of the year.
The lack of a permanent drummer posed a problem when the group's unofficial manager, Allan Williams, arranged a resident band booking for them in Hamburg, Germany. It was in the afternoon, with a few perverts — five or so men in overcoats — and a local stripper. We were brought in as the band to accompany the stripper; Paul on drums, John and me on guitar and Stu on bass.
When their residency at the notoriously rough Grosvenor Ballroom in Liscard, Wallasey, was canceled in part due to regular outbreaks of violence among the crowd, the Beatles looked abroad for work. The only problem was they lacked a drummer. To get the Germans going and keep it up for 12 hours at a time we really had to hammer.
We had to try anything that came into our heads in Hamburg. There was nobody to copy from. We played what we liked best and the Germans liked it as long as it was loud. The Beatles performing on 'Top of the Pops' in The Beatles performed in Hamburg on and off from through with engagements back in Liverpool interspersed.
It was at a performance at hometown venue the Cavern Club where Brian Epstein first saw the group play. Epstein was curious after hearing mention of them in his family-owned record store and in the pages of Mersey Beat magazine. He returned to take in the show a few more times and on December 10, , Epstein approached the band about managing them, and a five-year contract was signed in January That year would prove to be momentous for the Beatles.
On April 10, Sutcliffe died of a brain hemorrhage. Johns Wood, London. Epstein fired Best on August 16 and replaced him with year-old Starr, the son of local confectioners who had been playing with bands in the area. Starr made his debut with Tte Beatles two days later.
Epstein saw the potential of the band , not just in their hometown but far beyond, especially now that the core four members were in place.
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