The Beatles

The Beatles

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The Beatles were an English rock and pop group, formed in Liverpool in 1960, and by many measures remain the most commercially successful, as well as one of the most 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) and Ringo Starr (drums, vocals). Rooted in skiffle and 1950s rock and roll, the group later worked in many genres ranging from pop ballads to psychedelic rock, often incorporating classical and other elements in innovative ways. The nature of their enormous popularity, which first emerged as "Beatlemania", transformed as their songwriting grew in sophistication. They came to be perceived as the embodiment of ideals of the social and cultural revolutions of the 1960s.

Initially a five-piece line-up of Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe (bass) and Pete Best (drums), they built their reputation playing clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg over a three-year period from 1960. Sutcliffe left the group in 1961, and Best was replaced by Starr the following year. Moulded into a professional outfit by their manager, Brian Epstein, their musical potential was enhanced by the creativity of producer George Martin. They achieved mainstream success in the United Kingdom in late 1962, with their first single, "Love Me Do". Gaining international popularity over the course of the next year, they toured extensively until 1966, then retreated to the recording studio until their break-up in 1970. Each then found success in independent musical careers. Lennon was murdered outside his home in New York City in 1980, and Harrison died of cancer in 2001. McCartney and Starr remain active.

During their studio years, they produced what critics consider some of their finest material including the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), widely regarded as a masterpiece. They are the best-selling band in the history of popular music, and four decades after their break-up, their recordings are still in demand. They have had more number one albums on the UK charts, and held down the top spot longer, than any other musical act.According to the RIAA, they have sold more albums in the United States than any other artist.The Beatles were at number one on Billboard magazine's list of the all-time top Hot 100 artists, which was to celebrate the US singles chart's fiftieth anniversary.They have also been honoured with 7 Grammy Awards, and have received 15 Ivor Novello Awards from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors.They were collectively included in Time magazine's compilation of the 20th century's 100 most influential people.

Musical style and evolution

See also: Lennon/McCartney

In Icons of Rock: An Encyclopedia of the Legends Who Changed Music Forever, Scott Schinder and Andy Schwartz sum up The Beatles' musical evolution:

In their initial incarnation as cheerful, wisecracking moptops, the Fab Four revolutionized the sound, style, and attitude of popular music and opened rock and roll's doors to a tidal wave of British rock acts. Their initial impact would have been enough to establish them as one of their era's most influential cultural forces, but they didn't stop there. Although their initial style was a highly original, irresistibly catchy synthesis of early American rock and roll and R&B, they spent the rest of the 1960s expanding rock's stylistic frontiers, consistently staking out new musical territory on each release. The band's increasingly sophisticated experimentation encompassed a variety of genres, including folk-rock, country, psychedelia, and baroque pop, without sacrificing the effortless mass appeal of their early work.

The Beatles Songs :

Taxman [Download-mf]

Agust 1965 [Download-mf]

Yesterday [Download-mf]

And i love her [Download-mf]

Help [Download-mf]

The Beatles in my life [Download-mf]

Free as a bird [Download-mf]

Revolution [Download-mf]

christmas record 1963 [Download-mf]

A hard day's night [Download-mf]

For you blue [Download-mf]

When i get home [Download-mf]

You re gonna lose that acetate [Download-mf]

Oktober 1965 [Download-mf]

Day tripper [Download-mf]

Beatle mix [Download-mf]

Here comes the sun [Download-mf]

March 1967 [Download-mf]

Blue moon of kentucky [Download-mf]

Yesterday [Download-mf]

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