The Beatles Albums for song lyrics and biography.

	Let It Be (The Beatles - 1970)
	Yellow Submarine (The Beatles - 1969)
	Abbey Road (The Beatles - 1969)
	The Beatles (The White Album) Side A (The Beatles - 1968)
	The Beatles (The White Album) Side B (The Beatles - 1968)
	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (The Beatles - 1967)
	Magical Mystery Tour (The Beatles - 1967)
	Revolver (The Beatles - 1966)
	Help! (The Beatles - 1965)
	Rubber Soul (The Beatles - 1965)
	A Hard Day's Night (The Beatles - 1964)
	Beatles For Sale (The Beatles - 1964)
	Please Please Me (The Beatles - 1963)
	With the Beatles (The Beatles - 1963)

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The Beatles Biography

The Beatles were the most influential, groundbreaking and successful popular music group of the rock era. No artists of any sort, with the arguable exception of Elvis Presley, have achieved the Beatles' combination of popular success, critical acclaim and broad cultural influence. The Beatles were John Lennon (rhythm guitar/keyboards), Paul McCartney (bass/piano/guitars), George Harrison (lead guitar/sitar), and Ringo Starr (drums), all from Liverpool, Merseyside, in England. Although Lennon and McCartney were initially the principal songwriters, Harrison and Starr made significant contributions as the band matured. George Martin produced almost all of the Beatles' recordings. The Beatles created a sensation in late 1963 in the UK (the phenomenon was dubbed "Beatlemania" by the British press), notable for the hordes of screaming and swooning young women the group inspired. Beatlemania came to North America in early 1964, and the band's popularity extended across much of the world. Within the space of five years, their music progressed from the apparent simplicity of their early hits (such as "She Loves You" and "I Want to Hold Your Hand") to artistically ambitious suites of songs (such as the albums Revolver, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Abbey Road). By writing their own songs, exploring the possibilities of the recording studio and striving for unprecedented quality in every recording they released, the Beatles had far reaching effects on popular music. The band made feature films that were the subject of unprecedented press scrutiny, and became symbolic leaders of the international youth counterculture of the 1960s, publicly exploring Eastern mysticism, psychedelic drugs and revolutionary politics. The group disbanded in 1970. The Beatles also had a limited, but largely successful, film career, beginning with A Hard Day's Night (1964). It was a comic farce (often compared to the Marx Brothers) directed in a black-and-white documentary style by the up-and-coming Richard Lester, then known for directing the television version of the Goon Show. In 1965 came Help!, a Technicolor extravaganza shot in exotic locations in the style of a James Bond spoof. The Magical Mystery Tour (the concept of which was adapted from Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters LSD-oriented bus tour of the UK), was critically slammed when it aired on British television in 1967, but is now considered a cult classic. The animated Yellow Submarine followed shortly after, but had little input from the Beatles themselves, save for a live-action epilogue, and the contribution of four new songs for the film, including a holdover from the Sgt. Pepper sessions, "Only A Northern Song". Nonetheless, it was acclaimed for its boldly innovative graphic style and clever humor as well as the soundtrack. Finally, the documentary of a band in terminal decline, Let It Be was shot over an extended period in 1969; the music from this formed the album of the same name, which although recorded before Abbey Road, was (after much contractual to-ing and fro-ing and significant tinkering by producer Phil Spector) their final release. Unlike their contemporaries the Rolling Stones, blues seldom directly influenced the Beatles. Though they drew inspiration from an eclectic variety of sources, their home idiom was closer to pop music. Their distinctive vocal harmonies were influenced by early Motown artists in the U.S. Chuck Berry was perhaps the most fundamental progenitor of the Beatles' sound; the Beatles covered "Roll Over Beethoven" and "Rock And Roll Music" early in their careers on record (with most other Berry classics heard in their live repertoire). Chuck Berry's influence is also heard, in an altered form, in later songs such as "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me And My Monkey" (1968) and "Come Together" (1969) (when "Come Together" was released, the owner of Chuck Berry's copyrights sued John Lennon for copyright infringement of his song "You Can't Catch Me", after which the two reached an amicable settlement, the terms of which included the agreement that Lennon cover some Chuck Berry songs as a solo artist). Some people claim The Beatles' biggest influence was Elvis Presley. This is a matter of debate. Paul was quoted in an interview as saying that Elvis was the reason he picked up the guitar. John was also said to have loved Elvis' music. But others claim that, given that The Beatles sound little or nothing like Elvis, and little of his handprint can be seen in their catalog, and also given that they have so many other influences in chamber pop, R&B, soul, and early rock, Paul and John must have obviously gotten that feeling from a lot of other artists, and Paul would have surely picked up a guitar due to that feeling he got from any of the myriad other influences. The Beatles were fond of Little Richard, and some of their songs — especially their early work — featured falsetto calls very similar to those Little ...
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