The Beatles were a British rock/pop group from Liverpool, England. The group shattered many sales records and charted more than fifty top 40 hit singles, including twenty #1 hits in the USA alone, becoming the biggest musical act of the twentieth century. EMI Records estimated in 1985 that the band had sold over a billion records worldwide[1]. The band's songs covered many genres (including ballads, reggae, psychedelic music, blues, heavy metal and country music) and opened the door for many new musical styles and production techniques. The Beatles' influence extended beyond music into ...

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The Beatles had a limited but largely successful film career, beginning with A Hard Day's Night (1964), a loosely scripted comic farce, sometimes compared to the Marx Brothers in style. It focused on Beatlemania and their hectic touring lifestyle, and was directed in a quasi-documentary style in black-and-white by an up-and-coming Richard Lester, who was known for having directed a television version of the successful BBC radio series The Goon Show as well as the offbeat short film "The Run ...

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Main article: History of The Beatles John Lennon formed a group, The Blackjacks, who became The Quarrymen, in March 1957. On July 6 that year, John met Paul McCartney through a mutual friend while playing at the Woolton Parish Church Garden Fete, and the two were soon playing music together, with Colin Hanton on drums, and Len Garry on "Tea-Chest" bass. In February 1958 the young guitarist George Harrison joined the group, which played under a variety of names. Recordings of John, Paul and George from that year still exist. During this period, members constantly joined, and left the line up. John, Paul and George were the only ...

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Beatallica are a satire band that play music made from combinations of songs of The Beatles and Metallica. The songs' lyrics and music include phrases from both bands. The project was founded in 2001 as a spoof by singer Jaymz Lennfield and guitarist Krk Hammetson. The EP A Garage Dayz Nite was recorded for the annual "Spoof Fest" concert held annually in Milwaukee, as a memento of that year's concert. A few dozen copies of the EP were handed out to friends. Later that year, one of those CD's made its way to Milwaukee re ...

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Allen Klein (born December 18, 1931) is a business manager. He is best known (and somewhat notorious) for his management of rock and roll performers in the 1960s Allen Klein - The accountant. Allen Klein was born on 18th December 1931, the son of Budapest butchers. His mother died before he reached the age of one. As a teenager he worked several jobs while attending evening classes. He excelled at mental arithmetic and graduated from Upsala College, East Orange, New Jersey in 1956. He did book-keeping for s ...

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Apple Records is a British record label which was founded in 1968 (as a division of Apple Corps Ltd.) by The Beatles. Earlier Beatles albums had been released on Parlophone in England, and Capitol Records (or United Artists Records) in the US. In a new recording deal, EMI and Capitol agreed to distribute Apple Records until 1975; Apple owned the rights to records by artists they signed, while EMI retained ownership of the Beatles' records, though issuing them under the Apple label. The label became successful, surviving the breakup of the Be ...

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The White Album's album cover has been very influential. In the 1990s, both Prince and Metallica released self-titled albums with their names printed against mostly plain black covers, and are both informally referred to as "The Black Album". In 2003, rapper Jay-Z released an album officially called The Black Album. Two compilations of Beatles material, released in 1973 as The Beatles 1962-1966 and The Beatles 1967-1970, are often referred to as "The Red Album" and "The Blue Album" respectively, with reference to ...

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The White Album's cover has been very influential. In the 1990s, both Prince and Metallica released self-titled albums with their names printed against mostly plain black covers, and are both informally referred to as "The Black Album". In 2003, rapper Jay-Z released an album officially called The Black Album. Two compilations of Beatles material, released in 1973 as The Beatles 1962-1966 and The Beatles 1967-1970, are often referred to as "The Red Album" and "The Blue Album" respectively, with reference to their ...

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During a concert on Halloween, 1994, Phish played all the songs from The White Album. In December of 2005, the BBC show One World broadcast a two-hour retrospective on The White Album. Narrated by former Beatles engineer Chris Thomas - who went on to produce such luminaries as Pink Floyd, The Sex Pistols, Roxy Music, and Brian Eno - the broadcast features reworkings of songs from The White Album from a large and diverse roster of independent artists such as Bardo Pond, Deerh ...

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Many of the songs here are personal and self-referencing; for example "Dear Prudence" is about actress Mia Farrow's sister, Prudence, who attended Transcendental Meditation classes in Rishikesh, India at the same time as the group. In fact, many songs on the "White Album" were originally conceived during the group's ill-fated visit to India. "Sexy Sadie" is about the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi who led those TM classes. "Glass Onion" is John's song for those fans who spent their time trying to find hidden meanings in the group's lyrics; it refer ...

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Many of the songs here are personal and self-referencing; for example "Dear Prudence" is about actress Mia Farrow's sister, Prudence, who attended Transcendental Meditation classes in Rishikesh, India at the same time as the group. In fact, many songs on The White Album were conceived during the group's ill-fated visit to India. "Sexy Sadie" is about the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi who led those TM classes. "Glass Onion" is John's song for those fans who spent their time trying to find hidden meanings in the group's lyrics; it refer ...

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Three Anthology collections were released, each containing 2 CDs of never before released Beatles material. Two days after the first Beatles Anthology television special had aired, The Beatles Anthology 1 was released to stores. The first collection included music recorded by the Quarry Men, the famous Decca Records audition tapes, and various out-takes and demos from the band's first four albums. The song "Free as a Bird" was included in the two-CD collection. 450,000 copies of Anthology 1 were sold in its first day of r ...

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The Beatles' influence - Composition and recording. Whilst by no means the first to do so (Buddy Holly composed his hits, for example), the Beatles' example made self-composition the standard for rock bands then and since. Although they did not necessarily invent all the new ideas they incorporated in their music, they often competed with and played off the developing ideas of other prominent acts of the period (such as Bob Dylan, The Byrds, and the Beach Boys). As such, they spurred rock music, which hitherto ha ...

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On April 10, 1970, McCartney announced that the band had officially broken up. The cause of the breakup has been debated by fans and historians ever since that day, and ultimately they came up with several factors that could have easily contributed to the breakup. It is likely that the world will never know what caused the break-up, following are some theories. History of The Beatles - The end of touring. On August 29, 1966, the Beatles played their final live concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. ...

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The album's cover was designed by Richard Hamilton, a notable pop artist who had organised a Marcel Duchamp retrospective at the Tate Gallery the previous year. Hamilton's design was in stark contrast to Peter Blake's vivid cover art for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and consisted of a plain white sleeve. The band's name was discreetly embossed in the middle of the album's right side, and the cover also featured a unique stamped serial number, in Hamilton's words, "to create the ironic situation of a numbered edition of somet ...

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The album's cover was designed by Richard Hamilton, a notable pop artist who had organised a Duchamp retrospective at the Tate Gallery the previous year. Hamilton's design was in stark contrast to Peter Blake's vivid cover art for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and consisted of a plain white sleeve. The band's name was discreetly embossed in the middle of the album's right side, and the cover also featured a unique stamped serial number, in Hamilton's words, "to create the ironic situation of a numbered edition of something li ...

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The Beatles discography - UK singles. My Bonnie / The Saints (by "Tony Sheridan & The Beatles") (January 5, 1962); Did not chart (Re-issued May 1963 reached #48) Love Me Do / P.S. I Love You (October 5, 1962); #17 Please Please Me / Ask Me Why (January 11, 1963); #2 (#1 in N.M.E's chart) From Me To You / Thank You Girl (April 11, 1963); #1 She Loves You / I'll Get You (August 23, 1963); #1 I Want to Hold Your Hand / This Boy (November 29, 1963); #1 C ...

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Beatles for Sale was released in the United Kingdom on December 4, 1964. On December 12, it began a 46-week-long run in the charts, and a week later knocked A Hard Day's Night off the top of the charts. After seven weeks, the album's time at the top seemed over, but Beatles for Sale made a comeback on February 27, 1965, by dethroning the Rolling Stones and returning to the top spot for a week. The album's run in the charts was not complete either; on March 7, 1987, almost 23 years after its original release, Beatles for Sale reentered the charts briefly for a period of two weeks. See also:

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When Beatles for Sale was being recorded, Beatlemania was just past its peak; in early 1964, the Beatles had made waves with their television appearances in the United States, sparking unprecedented demand for their records. Beatles for Sale was the Beatles' fourth album in 21 months; recording for the album began on August 11, just two months after the release of A Hard Day's Night, following on the heels of several tours. Much of the production on the album was done on "off days" from performances in the UK, and most o ...

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