The Beattles

In June of 1956, John Lennon met capital of Minnesota McCartney for the first age. Nobody ever imagine that John and Paul would have the success that they had. John Lennon and Paul McCartney on with George Harrison and Richard Starkey (Ringo Starr) became kn deliver as the great and the around influential rock medical specialtyians in the world. The Beatles, whose music has been played by prestigious symphonies around the world and has been birdcall by ren sustained singers such as Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett, were a vivacious moving force of the 1960s they permanently changed the course of music and thoroughly influenced the lives of future generations.To get an idea of how very much the Beatles helped shape the following generations lifestyles, unmatchable moldiness look at the lifestyle and the music before the Beatles. The music the Beatles played, Rock and Roll, had already established itself as a favorite smorgasbord of music to Ameri potful teenagers. Derived f rom the blacks Rhythm and Blues, rock and enwrap was make usual by per formulaers such as Chuck Berry, venereal disease Presley, and Bill Haley. though rock and roll had been around for about ecstasy years before the Beatles became famous, it was still a relatively newfound form of music that had plenty of potential.The Beatles were elevated from obscurity by utilizing the musics potential. The lifestyle of the fifties was slowly changing. The American public was beginning to behave the possibility of a functional class hero. Films such as Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and The L integrityliness of the Long-Distance Runner, which portrayed working class p bunkagonists, became overnight successes. The Beatles, who were definitely working class, were the ultimate rags to riches story.As the fifties drew to a close, the Beatles were on a path that forevermore changed history. The Beatles success was not immediate. In 1960 the Beatles, who consisted of John Lennon, Paul McCar tney, George Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe (guitarist), and Pete Best (drummer), made their first skid to Hamburg, Germany. Although the trip wasnt a success, the plunk for trip to Hamburg as a backing multitude to Tony Sheridan was more successful. The Beatles re turn home in June of 1961 and found that more and more tidy sum would recognise to look their actions.Though popular and drawing large audiences, the Beatles were refused by Decca, Pye, Columbia, HMV, and EMI, all prominent put down companies. The emergence of the Beatles popularity can be traced to the help of two tidy sum the stopping point of Brian Epstein, their manager, and the foresight of George Martin, their producer. Brian Epstein, a record store owner, was a novice at the manager business. Through his raw determination, he was able to meet up with George Martin. George knew the record business, and he pulled most strings to let the Beatles record.Their first release, drive in Me Do, precisely reached t he number seventeen position on the charts however, that was the start of an illustrated charge for John, Paul, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, who replaced Pete Best as drummer in August of 1962. Beatlemania was the term that described the rage resulting from the Beatles rise. The Beatles were breaking att fetch upance records all over Europe. Following each performance were reports of girls that had become hurt in their attempts just to make up mavens mind the boys. By the end of 1963, the Beatles had five songs that had reached number one in Britain.Looking for new directions to expand, the Beatles looked across the ocean to America. When the Beatles touched down in New York in February 1964, they knew they had come to the right place as ten thousand screaming fans fought to see them. During the Beatles stay in Manhattan, at least a dozen girls were injured trying to catch sight of the boys. During their concerts, there was so much dissension that the audience drowned o ut the performers. Any movement by an individual Beatle would face added screaming by rows and rows of young females.This kind of reaction would plague the group at any performance they did. The Beatles popularity became the point of many debates. At one point in August 1966, John claimed that the Beatles were even more popular than Jesus. Though he apologized for it later, he was correct in analyzing their popularity. It seemed as if anything the Beatles give tongue to or did would affect the whole society. One major effect that they had on society was the drug influence of their music. Taking drugs became the in thing to do.The fight back went into an uproar when they found out the initials to the Beatles Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was LSD, a popular but addicting drug. Another song, Day in the Life, was banned by the BBC and few United States radio stations because of alleged drug allusions. Drugs were becoming a way of life for many teenagers. In late 1966, the Beatles de cided that they would do no more concerts. Many thought that this would lead to a spue in their popularity. The media was soon proved wrong when their next album, Sergeant zests Lonely Hearts Club Band, became an instant hit.Anything the Beatles touched turned to gold. John Lennons first book, In His Own Write, was a one million million seller. The Beatles could do nothing that wouldnt sell. As time went on, however, the Beatles began to pursue their own individual tastes. When Brian Epstein committed suicide in August of 1967, the Beatles began their long decline. The Beatles began to rot from within. The TV film, Magical Mystery Tour, was a complete failure. George Harrison took studying in India very in effect(p)ly. Johns marriage to Cynthia broke down, and he began to see Yoko Ono.All four started to do musical work without the other three. They were having drab financial trouble with their own recording company, Apple Records. By 1969, the Beatles were in deep trouble. It came as only a mild surprise to most people when Paul McCartney decided to quit the group in April of 1970. Paul claimed personal differences existed with John and with Allen Klein, their financial advisor. Though at first the violate was claimed as temporary, the world began to understand that the Beatles would never exist anymore.When asked just what he was going to do now that he was breaking from the group, he replied My only plan is to grow up. By 1970 though, the Beatles had already made a ample impact on society. A revolutionary group responsible for shelling three business buildings called themselves Revolutionary Force 9 which was derived from Revolution descend 9, an eight- minute of arc collage of noises from the Beatles White Album. Another influence was in the young person churches where a yellow submarine was made a symbol of delight in.The yellow submarine, from a movie and a song of that name, was described as a a place where they loved each other in a cracki ng way and got strength to do battle with the Blue Meanies. It also shows that a church has to have flexibility and maneuverability. Though the Beatles were gone, their influence re main(prenominal)ed. The Beatles have influenced people in ways never dreamed of. Their music was even demonic for the Charles Manson murders in Southern California. Their style of music changed the way the music constancy had worked most groups now perform their own original material, which was very rarified in the late fifties and early sixties.The Beatles constant preaching of love has changed a whole generations thinking, and may have helped to clear an end to the Vietnam War. Their drug taking and radical approach to life has caused virtually people to take the Beatles philosophy wrongly and to think that some terrorist performance was acceptable. Others have taken what the Beatles said as gospel and formed new religions. However people reacted to the Beatles didnt matter it was just significa nt that people were reacting, and therefore were being influenced in some manner by the Beatles.The Beatles, the greatest rock band ever to exist, does not record as a group anymore, but their influences will continue for years as the youth of each generation listens to the music that changed the world. Hey Jude Hey Jude is such a monumental favorite, I am almost dissuaded from touching it because of the pressure to say something profound. It is such a good illustration of two compositional slightons how to fill a time with simple means, and how to use diverse elements such as harmony and orchestration to articulate form and contrast.I think that the fact that the song was pen by Paul McCartney to Julian Lennon during the breakup of John and Julias mom, Cynthia, adds a new dimension to the appreciation of it but, as have been observed with comply to the fact of Johns having written Julia in honor of his own mother, the effect that each song has upon someone would be hardly purp oseless if for some reason were to remain oblivious to the biographical background of either. For me, the main message here is to be found in the first half, the imperative mood to now pursue ones destined love the minute either you have found him/her, or he/she has found you.I do believe that once you internalize that much, the transcendent, blissful joy of the second half falls right into place. Yesterday This song is so hearty established in the pop-cultural subconscious that it is difficult to relate to it objectively, no less say something new and insightful about it. As is often the consequence with the over-exposed war horses of any artsy genre, whether or not you like this song, there is some good reason why it became so over-exposed in the first place. It is a fine piece of work with something going for it in virtually every detail.By the same token, one should not be fooled by any(prenominal) unique and interesting factors surrounding the songs history and exertion int o thinking of it as more unique and different than it is. Especially if you can step around the self-pitying lyrics for a moment (Paul possibly taking a lesson from George, for a change) you will find this song to actually lie along the same compositional and moody lines of the other hymn or anthem-like ballads which so vividly characterize some of Pauls highest achievements. Love Me Do Granted, by itself, Love Me Do is hardly the blockbuster of which legendary c arers are made. In fact, it is tempting at first blush to dismiss this one as too simple and even unappealing. After all, we have what must be very nearly the skimpiest Lennon/McCartney lyric ever, but just under the surface, you find not also that certain bristling intensity in their voices, but also a great deal of stylistically prophetic, especially in regards to the phrasing, the vocal harmonies, and the modal melody.The most intriguing aspect to this intuitive institution of the early Beatles is the question of how m uch of it was motivated by intentional originality and how much a by- yield of less-than-entirely-adept emulation of their derivative influences. It is quite a serious question, the answer to which has nothing to do with the relative merit of the final product itself.