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. That’s 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
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In addition to the 23 albums released during the band's life (19601970) 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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is going
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Discography
album is “LOVE”, which
was released in November 2006.
people all over the world.