The Beatles is arguably the most popular and influential band to ever create music. The influence they had on people was absolutely astonishing. The Beatles group that everyone knows consists of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. All of the members were born and raised in Liverpool, England. The Beatles released a staggering thirteen albums in only seven years! They were undoubtedly the most popular group in America for their time. It all started out when John Lennon created his first band called “The Quarrymen” with his friend Pete Shotton at only sixteen years old. They played “skiffle” music. Skiffle is “a jazz style of the 1920s deriving from blues, ragtime, and folk music, played by bands made up of both standard and improvised instruments” (dictionary.com). He and Pete were able to recruit other friends to create a five-man group. On July 6, 1957, the Quarrymen performed at the Garden …show more content…
Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. This album turned out to be very appealing to the youth, as it consisted of the elements of the 60’s youth culture: “pop art, garish fashion, drugs, instant mysticism, and freedom from parental control” (Beatles Tribute Bands). The album included the cartoon psychedelia Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds and the incredible song A Day in the Life. Lennon described A Day in the Life as ‘a song building up from nothing to the end of the world’. With this album, the Beatles started to turn to more psychedelic type music influenced by drugs and pretty much anything they were putting in their bodies. After Epstein’s death, the Beatles began to make films. The Beatles created the Apple Corps as a business. The Beatles released the popular song Hey Jude under their Apple company. The first film was Magical Mystery Tour. It received mixed reviews, but the music in it was too good to avoid. They next created the cartoon Yellow