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Group Band Called The Beatles
The Beatles known as a pioneer of a rock band of all time, British rock band, formed in Liverpool in 1960, the band was last filled by John Lennon (rhythm guitarist and vocal) Paul McCartney (bassist and vocal), George Harrison (lead guitarist and vocal), and Ringgo Starr (drum and vocal). Starting from the skiffle and rock and roll genre of the 1950s, this group later played music in various genres ranging from folk rock to psychedelic rock, incorporating elements of classical music and other elements in innovative ways. The Beatles are seen as the embodiment of progressive ideas, influencing the socio-cultural revolution in the decade of the 60s.
Name, Formation, and the Journey 1957–1963
Initially this band consisted of 5 members, namely Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe (bass) and Pete Best (drum). John Lennon, who is still 16 years old, a singer and guitarist, formed a skiffle music group called The Quarrymen, with his school friends from Quarry Bank High School in Liverpool in March 1957. later on Paul Mccartney who is still in his 15 met John Lennon that July and joined the band as a rhythm guitarist. In february 1958, McCartney invited his friend George Harrison who also fifteen, to watch the band. After watching the show Harrison auditioned for Lennon, try to impressing him with his playing, but Lennon initially thought that George was too young. Not long after that, a month after to be precise, with his persistence, during the second meeting (arranged by McCartney), Harrison performed the lead guitar part of instrumental song “Raunchy” on the upper deck of a Liverpool bus, and they registered him as lead guitarist.
January 1959, Lennon’s friends from Quarry Bank High School had to left the band, and so he began his studies at the Liverpool College Of Art. The rest of the band wich is the three guitarist called themselves as Johnny and the Moondogs, these three men formed played rock and roll everytime they got a drummer. While Lennon was studying he made a friend named Stuart Sutcliffe, who had just sold one of his art was presuaded to purchase a bass guitar with the proceeds, joined Johnny and the Moondogs in January 1960. Sutcliffe suggested changing the group’s name to Beatals, as a tribute to Buddy Holly and the Crickets, until may, 10 1960 they changed the group’s name to Silver Beetles, and by the early of July they had refashioned themselves as the Silver Beatles and by the middle of august they simply The Beatles.
The lack of a drummer remains a problem, while Allan Williams, The Beatles unofficial manager, arranged a residency for them in Hamburg. They auditioned and hired drummer Pete Best in mid-August 1960. The band, now a five-piece, departed Liverpool for Hamburg four days later, contracted to club owner Bruno Koschmider for 48 nights show. The Beatles’ show was a hit in Hamburg where they played for hours on end and the streets were jammed with people coming and going to watch their shows.
During the next two years, the Beatles were resident for periods in Hamburg, where they used Preludin both recreationally and to maintain their energy through all-night performances. in 1961 Sutcliffe decided to leave the band early that year and resume his art studies in Germany, therfore Mccartney took up the bass. I almost forgot, when they performed at hamburg they caused a bit of trouble like Harrison who lied about his 17 year old, also, McCartney and Best who were caught for arson in their room in mid-December, after which they were also deported following Harrison. Lennon returned to Liverpool in mid-December while Sutcliffe remained in Hamburg for several months. He is dating a German girl, Astrid Kirchherr, who first took professional Beatles photos and cut Sutcliffe’s hair in a style that was popular at that time, exi (existentialist). Sutcliffe’s hairstyle later inspired other Beatles members.
German producer Berta Kaempfert signed four-man Beatles for Tony Sheridan’s backing band on several records. Credited to Tony Sheridan and The Beat Brothers, the single My Bonnie was recorded in June 1961 and released a few months later, peaking at number 32 on the Musikmarkt charts.After the Beatles completed their second Hamburg residency, they enjoyed increasing popularity in Liverpool with the growing Merseybeat movement. However, they were growing tired of the monotony of numerous appearances at the same clubs night after night. In November 1961, during one of the group’s frequent performances at The Cavern Club, they encountered Brian Epstein, a local record-store owner and music columnist. He later recalled: “I immediately liked what I heard. They were fresh, and they were honest, and they had what I thought was a sort of presence … a star quality. Epstein courted the band over the next couple of months, and they appointed him as their manager in January 1962. Throughout early to mid-1962, Epstein attempted to free the Beatles from their contractual obligations to Bert Kaempfert Productions. He eventually negotiated a one-month early release in exchange for one last recording session in Hamburg. On their return to Germany in April, a distraught Kirchherr met them at the airport with news of Sutcliffe’s death the previous day from a brain haemorrhage.
— Rest In Peace Stuart Sutcliffe.
Epstein began negotiations with record labels for a recording contract. To secure a UK record contract, Epstein negotiated an early end to the band’s contract with Polydor, in exchange for more recordings backing Tony Sheridan. After a New Year’s Day audition, Decca Records rejected the band, saying, “Guitar groups are on the way out, Mr. Epstein.” However, three months later, producer George Martin signed the Beatles to EMI’s Parlophone label.
On their first recording session at EMI’s Abbey Road Studios in London on 6 June 1962. Martin immediately complained to Epstein about Best’s drumming and suggested they use a session drummer in his place. After contemplating Best’s dismissal, The Beatles replaced him with Ringgo Starr who left Rory Storm and the Hurricanes to join them. In fact, Starr had already played for the Beatles in place of Best, who was often absent. On september session at EMI yielded a recording of “Love Me Do” feat Starr on drums, but Martin still not satisfied so he hired a session drum player which is Andy White for the band’s third session a week later. Which produced recordings of “Love Me Do”, “Please Please Me”, and “P.S I Love You”.
In December 1962, the Beatles concluded their fifth and final Hamburg residency. By 1963, they had agreed that all four band members would contribute vocals to their albums including Starr, despite his restricted vocal range, in order to maintain his position during the gig. Lennon and McCartney had forged a songwriting partnership, and as the band’s success grew, their dominant collaboration limited Harrison’s opportunities as lead vocalist. What’s funny is when epstein saw the beatles’ opportunity to become a big star and told the band to be more professional while entertaining. Lennon recalled him saying. “Look, if you really want to get in these bigger places, you’re going to have to change — stop eating on stage, stop swearing, stop smoking. Lennon said: “We used to dress how we liked, on and off stage. He’d tell us that jeans were not particularly smart and could we possibly manage to wear proper trousers, but he didn’t want us suddenly looking square. He’d let us have our own sense of individuality.
Fame, Beatlemania! and Other of Their Albums 1963–1966
With the success achieved from the release of “LOVE ME DO”, it turns out that PLEASE PLEASE ME is more enthusiastically received by the public, occupying the second position in the UK charts at that time after its release in January 1963. Their first LP entitled “PLEASE PLEASE ME” was released with Ten songs are packaged in “PLEASE PLEASE ME” along with 4 songs from the previous 2 singles. At the beginning of the release of this LP Martin intended to record it at The Cavern Club. but yet after feeling there like (“the acoustic ambience of an oil tank”), so he deciced to record the album over a session at Studio Abbey Road.
Please Please Me — 1963
Released in March 1963, the album peaked at number 1, which led to the Beatles’ reign of 11 studio albums until 1970 at the top of the UK charts. Recalling how the Beatles “rushed to deliver a debut album, bashing out “PLEASE PLEASE ME” in a day”, AllMusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote: “Decades after its release, the album still sounds fresh, precisely because of its intense origins. Lennon said that he and McCartney at the time were just writing songs à la Everly Brothers, à la Buddy Holly, pop songs with no more thought of them than that — to create a sound. And the words were almost irrelevant. And so the 3rd single, “From Me To You” was released in April and also peaked at number 1. and in August, the 4th single “She Loves You” was released, becoming the Beatles’ first single to reach one million sales, and remained the biggest-selling record in the UK until 1978.
The band toured the UK three times in half a year. The first 4 weeks starting in February, 3 weeks in March and May to June. Performances everywhere were greeted with great fanfare. Their popularity is also marked by the enthusiasm of their fans who declare themselves as Beatlemania.Although not named touring leader, The Beatles housed American artists Tommy Roe and Chris Montez during their February engagement and assumed billing was “by audience request”, something the UK act had never done before while touring with an artist from the US. A similar situation arose during their May–June tour with Roy Orbison. This sparked debate in the British parliament. At the end of October, The Beatles toured Sweden for 5 days, for the first time performing abroad after in Hamburg. On their return to the UK on October 31, several hundred screaming fans greeted them in heavy rain at Heathrow Airport. Around 50 to 100 journalists and photographers, as well as representatives from the BBC, also joined the airport reception, the first of more than 100 such events. Starting the next day for 6 weeks, The Beatles again held a tour that always became hot news in the media.
With The Beatles — 1963
“PLEASE PLEASE ME” still topped the charts for 30 weeks until it finally broke through with their own album, “WITH THE BEATLES” which also peaked at number 1 for 22 weeks. which EMI released on 22 November to record advance orders of 270,000 copies. The LP topped a half-million albums sold in one week. Recorded between July and October, “WITH THE BEATLES” made better use of studio production techniques than its predecessor.
Album With The Beatles commented by Allmusic: “Sequel to the most ordered, “a sequel of the highest order — one that betters the original”. it was released earlier than the next single, “I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND”.
The album caught the attention of music critic William Mann of The Times, Who stated that lennon also McCartney were “ The Outstanding British Composers of 1963”. With The Beatles became the second album in UK chart history to sell a million copies, previously being first printed by the 1958 South Pacific soundtrack. The Times also wrote an articles on William Mann’s analysis about Beatles’ music, paying homage to them.
In short, on 7, February 1964, The Beatles departed from Heathrow with an estimated 4.000 fans waving and screaming enthusiastic as the plane took off. Landing at New York’s John F. kennedy Airport, they were greeted by around 3.000 people. Two days later they gave their first live US television on The Ed Sullivan Show, watched by around 73 million viewers.
The next morning after Ed Sullivan Show, The Beatles awoke to a largely negative critical consensus in the US wrote about The Beatles — “ could not carry a tune across the Atlantic.” But the day after on their first US concert at the Washington Coliseum once again prove their popularity in US. Back in New York the following day, the Beatles met with another strong reception during two shows at Carnegie Hall. They appeared again on the Ed Sullivan Show in Florida for the second time before returning to the UK on 22 February. During the week of 4 April 1964, the Beatles held twelve positions on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, including the top five.
The popularity of The Beatles drew unexpected attention to British music, and several other British musicians also began their respective debuts in America and were successful so that in the next 3 years the influence of British music was termed the British Invasion. The Beatles’ success in the US opened the door for a successive string of British beat groups and pop acts such as the Dave Clark Five, the Animals, Petula Clark, the Kinks, and the Rolling Stones to achieve success in America. funnily enough, The Beatles’ long hairstyle, which was unusual at the time, was derided by many adults, but inspired young people, and became a symbol of rebellion against a burgeoning youth culture.
A Hard Day’s Night — 1964
Not long after that to be precise on July, 10 1964, “A HARD DAY’S NIGHT” was released and this is the third album by The Beatles, realeased by Parlophone label with one side containing songs from the soundtrack to their film of the same name. All 13 songs on A Hard Day’s Night were written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, showing the development of their songwriting partnership.
The members of The Beatles began acting in the film A Hard Day's Night which was released in July and August 1964, in London and New York, respectively. Directed by Richard Lester and produced by United Artist Records from March to April 1964, the film is a black-and-white documentary for the Beatles, which is played themselves in a musical comedy. The film premiered in London and New York in July and August, respectively, and was an international success, with some critics drawing a comparison with the Marx Brothers.
Beatles For Sale — 1964
“BEATLES FOR SALE”, The Beatles' fourth album, was marked by a serious conflict between commercialism and creativity. Recorded between August and October 1964, the format was deliberately intended to be like A Hard Day's Night, where unlike the previous two albums, contained only original songs. It was released on 4 December 1964 in the United Kingdom on EMI’s Parlophone label. However they were faced with a lengthy international tour, the process of writing the lyrics became somewhat disrupted. Lennon admitted, “Material’s becoming a hell of a problem”. As a result, six covers from their extensive repertoire were chosen to complete the album. Contains 14 songs and 8 of them were well received, reflecting the maturity of the lyrical material that demonstrating Lennon and McCartney songwriting partnership.
Controversy erupted in June 1965 when Queen Elizabeth II appointed all four Beatles Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) after Prime Minister Harold Wilson nominated them for the award. In protest — the honour was at that time primarily bestowed upon military veterans and civic leaders — some conservative MBE recipients returned their insignia.
Help! — 1965
In July, the Beatles’ second film, Help!, was released, again directed by Lester. Mentioned as a film featuring Bond style, McCartney says that “Help! was great but it wasn’t our film we were sort of guest stars. It was fun, but basically, as an idea for a film, it was a bit wrong.” The soundtrack was dominated by Lennon, who wrote and sang lead on most of its songs, including the two singles, “Help!” and “Ticket to Ride”.
The “HELP!” album, the group’s fifth studio LP, it was released on 6 August 1965. Mirrored A Hard Day’s Night by featuring soundtrack songs on side one and additional songs from the same sessions on side two. The LP contained all original material save for two covers, “Act Naturally” and “Dizzy Miss Lizzy”. The band expanded their use of vocal overdubs on Help! and incorporated classical instruments into some arrangements, including a string quartet on the pop ballad “Yesterday”. Composed by and sung by McCartney “Yesterday” has inspired the most cover versions of any song ever written. With “HELP!”, the Beatles became the first rock group to be nominated for a Grammy Award for Album of the Year.
The group's third US tour opened with a world record-breaking 55,600 crowd at New York's Shea Stadium on 15 August — "probably the most famous of all Beatles concerts", in Lewisohn's description. Nine more successful concerts followed in other American cities. At a show in Atlanta, The Beatles gave one of the first live performances to use a foldback system of on-stage monitor speakers. Towards the end of the tour, they met up with Elvis Presley, the band’s basic musical influence, who invited them to his Beverly Hills home. September 1965 saw the release of the American Saturday morning cartoon series, The Beatles, which echoed the slapstick antics of A Hard Day’s Night during the two years of its original run. The series marks a milestone as the first weekly television series to feature animated versions of real, real people.
— There are no any photos of The Beatles while met with Elvis Presley —
p.s I just can’t find it, maybe you can (?)
Rubber Soul — 1965
In mid-october The Beatles entered the recording studio, for the first time when making an album, they had an extended period without other major commitments. Until this time, according to George Martin, “we had been making albums rather like a collection of singles. Now we were really beginning to think about albums as a bit of art on their own. On 3 December 1965 “RUBBER SOUL” was released as the sixth studio album by The Beatles in the United Kingdom, on EMI’s Parlophone label. accompanied by the non-album double A-side single “Day Tripper” / “We Can Work It Out”. “RUBBER SOUL” was hailed by critics as a major step forward in the maturity and complexity of the band’s music. heir thematic reach was beginning to expand as they embraced deeper aspects of romance and philosophy, a development that NEMS executive Peter Brown attributed to the band members’ “now habitual use of “marijuana”. Lennon referred to Rubber Soul as “the pot album” and Starr said, “Grass was really influential in a lot of our changes, especially with the writers. And because they were writing different material, we were playing differently.” After “HELP!”’s foray into classical music with flutes and strings, Harrison’s introduction of a sitar on “Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)” marked a further progression outside the traditional boundaries of popular music. As the lyrics grew more artful, fans began to study them for deeper meaning. There is speculation interpreting that “Norwegian Wood” means “marijuana”. contained 14 songs like their previous album, “RUBBER SOUL” In 2003, Rolling Stone ranked “RUBBER SOUL” fifth among “The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time”, and AllMusic’s Richie Unterberger describes it as “one of the classic folk-rock records"
Revolver — 1966 The Final Tour
The seventh studio album called “REVOLVER”released on August, 5 1966 the album was an experemintal classical string arrangements to psychedelia, it’s such a greatly expanded repertoire of musical styles. Just the album, no movies, and 2 singles that preceed by the “Paperback Writer”, backed by “Rain”. Among the experimental songs that “REVOLVER” featured was “Tomorrow Never Knows”, the lyrics for which Lennon drew from Timothy Leary’s The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead. “A true hybrid, conforming to no recognizable style or genre of song.” Knwon as “Eleanor Rigby” wrote by McCartney that made prominent use of a string octet. As the statement said by Gould. And so Harrison began to persevere and become a songwriter, and 3 of his compositions got a place on the album. Among these, “Taxman”, which opened the album, marked the first example of the Beatles making a political statement through their music.
But unfortunately due to some difficulties regarding playing this new album, when they had a US tour none of their songs were played. As the band concert all around the world, on August, 29 was their las commercial concert. It marked the end of four years dominated by almost nonstop of concerts that have exceeded 1,400 performances worldwide. The band’s concert at San Fransisco’s Candlestick Park.
It Happened! Some Controversy Before The Final Tour — 1966
More popular than Jesus! — We’re more popular than Jesus now, I don’t know which will go first — rock ’n’ roll or Christianity. that’s roughly what John Lennon said, it happened in 1966, it happened as soon as they just arrived at UK. Because of that The Beatles Faced a fierce backlash from US religious and social conservatives (as well as the Ku Klux Klan) over a comment Lennon had made in a March interview with British reporter Maureen Cleave. The comments were ignored in Britain, but sparked controversy in the Bible Belt region. and bans on Beatles’ records were imposed by Spanish and Dutch stations. Also in South Africa Beatles’ songs were banned from radio until 1971. Epstein criticized Datebook for misrepresenting Lennon’s comments and at the press conference Lennon explained (“If I’d said television was more popular than Jesus, I might have got away with it.”) He claimed that he was referring to how other people viewed their success, but at the prompting of reporters, he concluded, (“If you want me to apologize, if that will make you happy, then okay, I’m sorry.”) [PANIC].
And before that happened, some controversies also occurred when they toured the Philippines. after the “Yesterday and Today” furore, The Beatles accidentally made the first lady, Imelda Marcos, feel offended by refusing the Presidential Palace breakfast in Manila. As spokesperson Epstein politely declined because he felt they had never received such an official invitation. They soon discovered that the Marcos regime was not used to taking no for an answer. The resulting riots endangered the group and they fled the country with great difficulty.
In June 1966, before the controversy between The Beatles and Imelda Marcos, the Capitol LP “Yesterday and Today” caused an uproar with its cover, which portrayed the grinning Beatles dressed in butcher’s overalls, accompanied by raw meat and mutilated plastic baby dolls. . According to Beatles biographer Bill Harry, it has been incorrectly suggested that this was meant as a satirical response to the way Capitol had “butchered” the US versions of the band’s albums. Thousands of copies of the album were marketed with different covers. it contains 11 songs including “Nowhere Man” from “RUBBER SOUL” and “And Your Bird Can Sing” from REVOLVER.
The Days After, Until 1970
After all of the burden of their touring, “SGT. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND” the eighth studio album was released on May, 26 1967.
Started recording at the end of november 1966, The Beatles’ desire to experiment in making this album was fulfilled. The album’s recording took over 700 hours, according to engineer Geoff Emerick. He recalled the band’s insistence “that everything on Sgt. Pepper had to be different.
(“The Beatles insisted that everything on Sgt. Pepper had to be different. We had microphones right down in the bells of brass instruments and headphones turned into microphones attached to violins. We used giant primitive oscillators to vary the speed of instruments and vocals and we had tapes chopped to pieces and stuck together upside down and the wrong way round.”) as the Geoff Emerick said. In fact that “A Day In life” as the song that contained in the album was featured with a 40 piece orchestra. Single “Strawberry Fields Forever” and “Penny Lane” launched in February 1967 as the non-album double A-side, and after that “SGT. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND” was released in May 1967. Sgt. Pepper received great acclaim as a masterpiece. In 2003, Rolling Stone listed it at number one of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Jonathan Gould comments (“a rich, sustained, and overflowing work of collaborative genius whose bold ambition and startling originality dramatically enlarged the possibilities and raised the expectations of what the experience of listening to popular music on record could be. On the basis of this perception, Sgt. Pepper became the catalyst for an explosion of mass enthusiasm for album-formatted rock that would revolutionize both the aesthetics and the economics of the record business in ways that far outstripped the earlier pop explosions triggered by the Elvis phenomenon of 1956 and the Beatlemania phenomenon of 1963.”) there are 13 songs in the album, apart from the single. On June 25, they released the single “All You Need Is Love”, to television viewers worldwide.
Two months later, they were shocked by the news that brought their career to an end. After being introduced to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, they went to Bangor to meditate. On the way, Brian Epstein's assistant Peter Brown called to tell them that Epstein had died. In short Lennon Said (“I didn’t have any misconceptions about our ability to do anything other than play music and I was scared.”) He also comments on Epstein’s death as the starting point for their ending (“I knew that we were in trouble then … I thought, We’ve fuckin’ had it now.”)
— Rest In Peace Brian Epstein
Magical Mystery Tour — 1967
Was released on November, 27 1967 for US LP and December, 8 1967 for UK EP as the ninth studio album for the film titled Magical Mystery Tour made for television musical directed by and starring The Beatles.
Included 11 songs inside this album for the soundtrack Magical Mystery Tour Film, The film Magical Mystery Tour, which was largely directed by Paul McCartney, received unsatisfactory comments from the British media. It was dismissed as “blatant rubbish” by the Daily Express, the Daily Mail called it “a colossal conceit”; and The Guardian labelled the film “a kind of fantasy morality play about the grossness and warmth and stupidity of the audience”, as a result, this film will not be screened in US. In January, The Beatles played extras for the animated “Yellow Submarine film”, The Beatles in a fantasy cartoon version. Released in jJuly 1968 on UK, The “Yellow Submarine” was well received alongside its music.
Journey To India, Apple Corps, “White Album” — 1968
The Beatles travelled to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s ashram in Rishikesh, India, to take part in a three-month meditation “Guide Course”, in February, 1968. Their time in India marked one of the band’s most prolific periods, producing many songs, including most of them on their next album. However, Starr left after only ten days, unable to eat food, and McCartney finally got bored and left a month later.Unfortunately for Lennon also Harrison creativity turned to questions right after an electronic technician known as Magic Alex that Maharishi actually took advantage of The Beatles and sexually assaulted his students. Hearing this, Lennon was influenced and immediately forced the disbelieving Harrison and their entourage home. In a fit of rage, Lennon wrote a song called Maharishi, but it was changed to Sexie Sadie, to avoid potential legal issues. McCartney said “We made a mistake. We thought there was more to him than there was.”
After their journey in India, in May, 1968 Lennon and McCartney travelled to New York for the public unveiling of the Beatles’ new business venture, Apple Corps. And for your information, Apple Corps was founded in London in January, 1968 by the members of the Beatles to replace their earlier company (Beatles Ltd). McCartney described Apple as “rather like a Western communism”.
Harrison later said, “Basically, it was chaos … John and Paul got carried away with the idea and blew millions, and Ringo and I just had to go along with it”. Of course because of some problems.
In short, from late May-mid October 1968, the band recorded what became “THE BEATLES”, known as “WHITE ALBUM”, because the album cover is empty. During this time, relations between members of the Beatles became increasing tenuous. The star paused for a while, causing McCartney to have to beat the drums on several songs such as “Back in the U.S.S.R.” and “Dear Prudence” as a trio. Another problem is the romantic relationship between John Lennon and avant-garde artist Yoko Ono. It was a mutual agreement in advance between the four personnel not to bring people into the studio, but Lennon insisted on bringing Ono to all of the recording sessions, though Harrison was displeased. he Lennon-McCartney lyric writing collaboration is no longer done. Lennon increasingly undervalued McCartney’s creative input and referred to his compositions as (“granny music”), even nicknamed “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” as (“granny music shit”). Lennon also said (“It’s like if you took each track off it and made it all mine and all Paul’s… just me and a backing group, Paul and a backing group, and I enjoyed it. We broke up then.”). He and Lennon identified the sessions as the start of the band’s break-up. McCartney also said (“Up to that point, the world was a problem, but we weren’t” which had always been “the best thing about The Beatles”).
Released on 22 November 1968, is the ninth studio album. White Album is The Beatles’ first album release from Apple Records, the new label of a subsidiary of Apple Corps. Fulfill Epstein’s plan to build tax-effective business structure. Based on Jonathan Gould (“The critical response… ranged from mixed to flat. In marked contrast to Sgt. Pepper, which had helped to establish an entire genre of literate rock criticism, the White Album inspired no critical writing of any note. Even the most sympathetic reviewers… clearly didn’t know what to make of this shapeless outpouring of songs. Newsweek’s Hubert Saal, citing the high proportion of parodies, accused the group of getting their tongues caught in their cheeks”). However, the album sold more than 4 million copies in the United States within one month and the songs were widely played on American radios. However, the criticism eventually improved. In 2003, Rolling Stone included it in the final ranking of the Ten Greatest Albums of All Time.
Yellow Submarine — 1969
From now on, interest in The Beatles' lyrics has become a serious matter. When Lennon's "Revolution" was released as a single in August, ahead of the White Album, the message was clearly "free your mind", and "count me out", meaning that destruction is a means to an end. However, in the White Album version with the song, "Revolution 1", there is the addition of the word "count me out…in", as indicating a change in feelings. But actually the single Revolution was recorded after the White Album and some argue that their lyrics are starting to justify political violence. The Yellow Submarine LP was finally released in January 1969, containing 4 previously unreleased songs, including the title track Yellow Submarine, (already included in Revolver), the song All You Need is Love (released as a single and LP Magical Mystery Tour in America) and 7 instrumental music composed by Martin. Due to the album’s lack of novelty, Allmusic called it “inessential” with the exception of Harrison’s It’s All Too Much, which was hailed as “the jewel of the new songs… resplendent in swirling Mellotron, larger-than-life percussion, and tidal waves. of feedback guitar… a virtuoso excursion into otherwise hazy psychedelia”.)
Abbey Road — 1969
Although “LET IT BE”was the Beatles’ final album release, it was largely recorded before “ABBEY ROAD”. The project’s impetus came from an idea Martin attributes to McCartney, who suggested they “record an album of new material and rehearse it, then perform it before a live audience for the very first time on record and on film”. Much of the material is processed in the studio for hours as recorded on film by Michael Lindsay-Hogg. On 4 July, the first solo single by a Beatle was released: Lennon’s “Give Peace a Chance”, credited to the Plastic Ono Band. The completion and mixing of “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” on 20 August was the last occasion on which all four Beatles were together in the same studio. On 8 September, while Starr was in hospital, the other band members met to discuss recording a new album. They considered a different approach to songwriting by ending the Lennon–McCartney pretence and having four compositions apiece from Lennon, McCartney and Harrison, with two from Starr and a lead single around Christmas. On 20 September, Lennon announced his departure to the rest of the group but agreed to withhold a public announcement to avoid undermining sales of the forthcoming album.
Released on 26 September 1969, “ABBEY ROAD” as the eleventh studio album sold four million copies within three months and topped the UK charts for a total of seventeen weeks. Its second track, the ballad "Something", was issued as a single – the only Harrison composition that appeared as a Beatles A-side. “ABBEY ROAD” received mixed reviews, although the medley met with general acclaim. Unterberger considers it "a fitting swan song for the group", containing "some of the greatest harmonies to be heard on any rock record". Musicologist and author Ian MacDonald calls the album "erratic and often hollow", despite the "semblance of unity and coherence" offered by the medley. Martin singled it out as his favourite Beatles album; Lennon said it was "competent" but had "no life in it".
For the still unfinished Get Back album, one last song, Harrison’s “I Me Mine”, was recorded on 3 January 1970. Lennon, in Denmark at the time, did not participate. In March, rejecting the work Johns had done on the project, now retitled Let It Be, Klein gave the session tapes to American producer Phil Spector, who had recently produced Lennon’s solo single “Instant Karma!”. In addition to remixing the material, Spector edited, spliced and overdubbed several of the recordings that had been intended as “live”. McCartney was unhappy with the producer’s approach and particularly dissatisfied with the lavish orchestration on “The Long and Winding Road”, which involved a fourteen-voice choir and 36-piece instrumental ensemble. McCartney’s demands that the alterations to the song be reverted were ignored, and he publicly announced his departure from the band on 10 April, a week before the release of his first self-titled solo album.
Let It Be — 1970, Separation Year
On 8 May 1970, Let It Be is the twelfth and final album was released. Its accompanying single, “The Long and Winding Road”, was the Beatles’ last, it was released in the US, but not in the UK. The Let It Be documentary film followed later that month, and would win the 1970 Academy Award for Best Original Song Score. Sunday Telegraph critic Penelope Gilliatt called it “a very bad film and a touching one … about the breaking apart of this reassuring, geometrically perfect, once apparently ageless family of siblings”. Several reviewers stated that some of the performances in the film sounded better than their analogous album tracks. Describing “Let It Be” as the (“only Beatles album to occasion negative, even hostile reviews”), Unterberger calls it (“on the whole underrated”); he singles out some good moments of straight hard rock in “I’ve Got a Feeling” and “Dig a Pony”, and praises “Let It Be”, “Get Back”, and the folky ‘Two of Us’, with John and Paul harmonising together. McCartney filed suit for the dissolution of the Beatles’ contractual partnership on 31 December 1970. Legal disputes continued long after their break-up, and the dissolution was not formalised until 29 December 1974, when Lennon signed the paperwork terminating the partnership while on vacation with his family at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida
After Break up, Until Now!
Not long after break up, all these member of the band starting their solo albums in 1970. Their solo records sometimes involved one or more of the others, except for Lennon and McCartney never recorded together again.
Influences
The band’s earliest influences include Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Little Richard and Chuck Berry. During the Beatles’ co-residency with Little Richard at the Star-Club in Hamburg, from April to May 1962, he advised them on the proper technique for performing his songs. Of Presley, Lennon said, “Nothing really affected me until I heard Elvis. If there hadn’t been Elvis, there would not have been the Beatles.” Other early influences include Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran, Roy Orbison and the Everly Brothers.
The Beatles continued to absorb influences long after their initial success, often finding new musical and lyrical avenues by listening to their contemporaries, including Bob Dylan, the Who, Frank Zappa, the Lovin’ Spoonful, the Byrds and the Beach Boys, whose 1966 album Pet Sounds amazed and inspired McCartney. Referring to the Beach Boys’ creative leader, Martin later stated: “No one made a greater impact on the Beatles than Brian [Wilson].”Ravi Shankar, with whom Harrison studied for six weeks in India in late 1966, had a significant effect on his musical development during the band’s later years.
In August 2021, The Beatles: Get Back, a new documentary film directed by Peter Jackson utilising footage captured for what became the Let It Be film, will be released by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures in the US and Canada, with a global release to follow. It was originally going to be released in 2020 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Let It Be album, but was delayed to due the COVID-19 pandemic.
Legacy
In short their music are still be the influencer from generation to generation. Many artists have acknowledged the Beatles’ influence and enjoyed chart success with covers of their songs. And for me, individually, i do like Beatles’ songs and until now too i currently listen to their songs, accompany me to wrote this article from begining till the end.
— Rest In Peace, dear John Lennon and George Harrison —
— Long live All The Legengs! —
