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The Beatles: The Most Popular Band In The 1960's

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The beatles was the most popular band in 60’s. During 1960 they were formed in Liverpool, England. With four members, They became widely regarded as the foremost and most influential act of the rock era. They later experimented with several music styles such as, pop ballad, indian music, psychedelia, and also hard rock. They create music in innovative way like incorporating classical elements and unconventional recording techniques. All of their music production paper led by paul McCartney and John lennon as the primary songwriter The Beatles are the best selling band in history, with estimated sales of over 800 million physical and digital album worldwide. But not only that, they have several archievement when they’re still in one group and …show more content…

They were also collectively included in Time magazine's compilation of the twentieth century's 100 most influential people.

There are a long story behind the determination of their band name. It was called quarrymen at first but during 50’s it changes frequently until in 1960, John and his best friend at art college, Stu Sutcliffe, came up with the name “The Beatles.” The story goes that the band loved Buddy Holly and his group "the Crickets.” So the two went through several insect names and finally arrived on “Beetles".

Stu thought of “The Beetles,” but then John, who loved puns and wordplay, thought of changing the spelling to “Beatles,” as they were a beat group. As John was to later elaborate in a 1964 interview: “It was beat and beetles and when you said it, people thought of crawly things, and when you read it, it was beat music.”

Here are the members of the …show more content…

It was julian lennon, john lennon’s son. At that time John lennon who is already married had an affair with another women named Yoko Ono. So his wife (jules’s mom) seek for divorce. Paul McCartney made this song especially for supporting jules during his tough time. So it was originally “ hey jules” but the in an interview Paul said "I was going out in my car, just vaguely singing this song," McCartney told Rolling Stone, "and it was like, 'Hey, Jules...' And then I just thought a better name was Jude. A bit more country and western for me." He said the song's intro was "a hopeful message for Julian: 'Come on, man, your parents got divorced. I know you're not happy, but you'll be OK.'"
McCartney wrote "Hey Jude" at a tumultuous time in his own life as well. The song was written while the band was doing studio sessions for the White Album, according to Rolling Stone, when the band members were notoriously feuding. At the same time, he and his then girlfriend, actress Jane Asher, were splitting

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