Rock and roll, country, 60s, Liverpool ... And the memory helpfully prompts: The Beatles, making the heart beat in unison with the famous hits. The magnificent Liverpool ensemble literally blew up the already inconsistent and absurd city, and later the whole world. The Beatles, as we all remember, included four performers. But how was a group born in the British bowels that could make world-class art and popularity out of rock music? By the way, not one of the members of the Beatles had a serious professional education! However, this is how the legend and original talent is born, which is forged by the will and strikes with a revolutionary hammer on the ringing copper of hearts.
Little boy John Lennon is bored with singing in a church choir. A loving mother gladly helped her son master the harmonica. This turned out to be more than enough so that by the age of 15 the teenager had an irresistible desire to create his own team. Thus was founded The Quarrymen. A year later, Paul McCartney accidentally heard the group near one of the parish churches of the Liverpool district. He played the guitar much better than Lennon, and John appreciated the talent of the teenager and invited him to the group. However, Paul did not come alone, but took with him a friend George Harrison. With the advent of
Stuart Sutcliffe in 1959, the group changed its name to The Silver Beetles, which translates as Silver Beetles.
In 1960, the newly-minted group toured Hamburg's pubs, rehashing Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Buddy Holly. At that time Peter Best was the drummer, while Ringo Starr successfully played in another Liverpool band. At this time, John Lennon changed his name to “The Beatles”, and by the end of 1961 the band had a personal manager, Brian Epstein, who dressed the musicians in jackets from Pierre Cardin and urged them to release long bangs instead of Presley-style hairstyles. The Beatles chief got tempting contracts with European record companies, but it turned out that Best drummer wasn’t suitable for the format. The composition of the Beatles group needed to be changed. On August 16, the musicians announced Besta his departure, and on the 18th the band performed with Ringo Starr.
So, the composition of the Beatles finally took shape in the historical four, which blew up charts and British concerts. Since the summer of 1963, Beatlemania began to grow rapidly. In October of that year, a concert by a popular band that performed at the London Palladium was watched by 15 million Britons. The success of the first album, Please Please Me, was phenomenal. The magnificent four to the car had to be escorted with a police outfit. By 1965, the Beatlemania reached the shores of the United States. By the way, American music companies were skeptical of the Beatles and did not release the group's records until 1964, when the EMI management took a chance and presented the music lovers with the album “Meet The Beatles”. Critics were mistaken - the success of the record was overwhelming. Thanks to this triumph, the Liverpool four received
a ticket to American sites. The legendary hit "Yesterday" was performed at the New York Stadium in 1965.
Album recordings, filming, performances - the legendary team was at the pinnacle of success. When suddenly in August 1967 Brian Epstein dies. The composition of the Beatles gathered at McCartney to solve questions of the future. The breakup of the group was inevitable, each of the participants gradually began parallel individual creativity, and joint singles lost their collective atmosphere. The Beatles quartet, whose composition did a tremendous job in the world musical art, left the stage. In August 1969, the last studio album “Abbey Road” was recorded. In July 1970, Paul McCartney officially announced the demise of the Beatles. The legendary four left the listener in the 70s. Their time was a rebellious 60s, but the era of The Beatles will last forever.