Beatles

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The Beatles style changed rock and pop for all time. They changed the surface of music with their innovative and unique style that showed simplicity, yet had a depth that is difficult to easily define.

Contents 1 Early years 2 Beatlemania 3 Shattering records 4 Touring outside 5 Concerts of importance 6 Jesus 7 The last 8 First on many downfalls 9 India and the birth of the rift 10 Let It Be 11 Back together?

Early years

The core players of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison formed the band early. They went through a huge batch of people until the found Ringo Starr in 1962. At this point their line up was complete and they not only took England with their new style, but also the United States and the whole world. This was the start of what has been affectionately called Beatlemania.

Beatlemania

In early November 1963, Brian Epstein, their producer and promotional frontrunner; convinced Ed Sullivan to presenting The Beatles on three separate editions of his show in February. He then notified Capital Records of this development and converted it into a record deal with them. Capitol did commit and also committed to a mid-January release for I Want To Hold Your Hand. A series of unplanned circumstances triggered a premature airplay of an imported copy of the single. This was on a Washington DC radio station, it was played in mid-December. Capitol then brought forward the release date of the record to December 26, 1963.

Several New York radio stations began to play I Want to Hold Your Hand on its release date, and the Beatlemania that had started in Washington was duplicated in New York. It would quickly spread to other markets throughout the United States. This record had sold one million copies in just 10 days, and by January 16, Cashbox Magazine had certified The Beatles record #1 in their January rendition.

Shattering records

A record-shattering 73 million viewers, or 40% of the American population at the time, tuned in to the first Sullivan appearance of the Beatles on February 9. During the week of April 4, The Beatles held the top five places on the Billboard Hot 100, a feat that has never been close to being repeated.

Touring outside

In 1964, the band toured for the first time outside of the Europe and United States areas. They toured Australia and New Zealand. Upon arriving in Adelaide, they were greeted by over 300,000 people.

Concerts of importance

In September of that same year, Charles O. Finley paid the band the unheard of sum of $150,000 to play in Kansas City, Missouri.

August 15th of 1965 would be the event that would change two things. The first is that it was the first stadium concert in modern rock, which was performed by the Beatles. The second was the disenchantment that the band encountered to performing live when the suffered the crushing experience of performing to a crowd that was so loud that they could even heard themselves or their music.

Jesus

In July 1966, a comment was taken out of context by John Lennon that would have such a negative impact that Lennon apologized for this comment repeatedly on multiple occasions. He had offered his insight on Christianity dying and also mentioned that the Beatles were more Popular than Jesus to the younger generation. He was attempting to make a point in reference to music's role in society, and it was taken as an attack upon Christianity.

The last

29th of August 1966would mark a major date in Beatles lore, at Candlestick Park in San Francisco they performed their final concert, preferring to focus on recording their music.

First on many downfalls

The band took a turn for the worst when manager Brian Epstein, the one that managed a lot of their affair, died. Epstein was only 32 years old.

India and the birth of the rift

In 1968, the band spent part of the year in India, attempting to enlighten themselves and to pursue a new path in their music. Upon returning, they began to work collectively on the biggest album of there’s to date. It is called just the Beatles, but is nicknamed the White Album. During the creation of this album was when the rift was forming in the band as they all had differing views in the band’s creativity.

Let It Be

In March of 1970 the band released Let I t Be. This was accepted with much cheer, yet but one month after its release the band officially broke up.

Back together?

Despite the band’s break up and each member working on his own goals, there were hope that the band would reform someday. This dream what utterly shattered on December 8th, 1980, when Mark David Chapman shot John Lennon four times with hollow points. He died immediately.