"birthday. In addition to the live performances, there are also studio Beatles recordings heard on the program's soundtrack. Among them are ""She Loves You"", ""I Saw Her Standing There"", ""Love Me Do"", ""I Want To Hold Your Hand"" and ""It Won't Be Long"". Other recordings featured are ""Navy Blue"" by Diane Renay and ""Pride and Joy"" by Marvin Gaye. The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit is a 1990 re-edited version of renowned documentary filmmaking team Albert and David Maysles' 1964 16mm documentary ""What's Happening! The Beatles in the U.S.A."", about the Beatles' first visit"
"the Beatles decided to release their own version on ""Rubber Soul""; it only reached No.20 in the UK and was not released in North America. Their third album, simply called ""Hollies"", hit No.8 in the UK in 1965 but, under the name ""Hear! Here!"", failed to chart in the US despite its inclusion of ""Look Through Any Window"" and ""I'm Alive"". The Hollies then returned to the UK Top 10 with ""I Can't Let Go"" (Feb. 1966, UK No.2, US No.42). Their fourth album, ""Would You Believe?""—which included the hit—made it to No.16 in 1966. Released in the US as"
"from 1964 to 1966. After first running a story on 10 December 1963, CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite on 7 February 1964 ran a story about The Beatles' United States arrival in which the correspondent said ""The British Invasion this time goes by the code name Beatlemania"". A few days later they appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show. Seventy five percent of Americans watching television that night viewed their appearance thus ""launching"" the invasion with a massive wave of chart success that would continue until they broke up in 1970. On 4 April 1964, the Beatles held the top"
"The Beatles' ""Hey Jude""). Its second single, ""Twenty Ten"", was a Bach-inspired minor key piece of harmony psychedelia, with wah-wah vox organ, mellotron flutes, Spanish style guitar, and choir-like vocals. The lyrics alluded to the year 2010 which was still 43 years away in 1967. Despite finding favour with the BBC Radio DJ John Peel, it was a commercial flop. Its third single, ""Sheila's Back In Town"", was released in January 1969 in the UK. It made the Top 10 in Japan. The band also backed Gene Latter at a recording session at the Lansdowne Studios, Holland Park, resulting in"
"and success. He became their manager in January 1962. Ringo Starr replaced Best in August, and the band had their first hit, ""Love Me Do"", in October, becoming popular in the UK in 1963, and in the US a year later. The fan hysteria became known as ""Beatlemania"", and the press sometimes referred to McCartney as the ""cute Beatle"". In August 1965, the Beatles released the McCartney composition ""Yesterday"", featuring a string quartet. Included on the ""Help!"" LP, the song was the group's first recorded use of classical music elements and their first recording that involved only a single band"
"three years in what 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. During the week of 4 April 1964, the Beatles held twelve positions on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 singles chart, including the top five. Capitol Records' lack of interest throughout 1963 did not go unnoticed, and a competitor, United Artists Records, encouraged their film division to offer the Beatles a three-motion-picture"
"primary songwriters Lennon and McCartney, the Beatles built their reputation playing clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg over a three-year period from 1960, with Stuart Sutcliffe initially serving as bass player. The core trio of Lennon, McCartney and Harrison, together since 1958, went through a succession of drummers, including Pete Best, before asking Starr to join them in 1962. Manager Brian Epstein moulded them into a professional act, and producer George Martin guided and developed their recordings, greatly expanding the group's popularity in the United Kingdom after their first hit, ""Love Me Do"", in late 1962. These and other members of"
"Beatles during rehearsals for a television appearance, John Lennon and Paul McCartney provided the Applejacks with a song which was to be their second single: ""Like Dreamers Do"". However, the record only reached number 20 in the UK chart, whilst their final hit, ""Three Little Words (I Love You)"" (also in 1964), made it to No. 23. The group quarrelled with Decca over their next single. Decca wanted them to record ""Chim Chim Chiree"", but the group disliked the song. Although the single had been announced (and is therefore listed in most discographies), it was never released. According to Megan"
"group made an amateur recording of themselves in 1958, performing Buddy Holly's ""That'll Be the Day"" and ""In Spite of All the Danger"", a song written by McCartney and Harrison. The group moved away from skiffle and towards rock and roll, causing several of the original members to leave. This left only a trio of Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison, who performed under several other names, including Johnny and the Moondogs and Japage 3 before returning to the Quarrymen name in 1959. In 1960, the group changed its name to the Beatles, and went on to have an extremely successful recording"
"for seven weeks. ""From Me to You"" featured Lennon playing harmonica in a Jimmy Reed-inspired blues style he had learned from Delbert McClinton, another American who was on the same bill with the Beatles in the early Sixties. ""It's chiseled in stone now that I taught Lennon how to play harmonica,"" McClinton said. ""John said, 'Show me something.' I was in a pretty unique position, because there just weren't a lot of people playing harmonica in popular music."" ""From Me to You"" was the first Beatles song to reach number one in Britain and is widely considered to be their"
"received when he was given diksha or initiation in Gaya was the six-word verse of the ""Kali-Santarana Upanishad"", namely ""Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare; Hare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare"". In Gaudiya tradition, it is the ""maha-mantra"", or great mantra, about Krishna bhakti. Its chanting was known as ""hari-nama sankirtana"". The ""maha-mantra"" gained the attention of George Harrison and John Lennon of The Beatles fame, and Harrison produced a 1969 recording of the mantra by devotees from the London Radha Krishna Temple. Titled ""Hare Krishna Mantra"", the song reached the top twenty on the UK"
"ways, the Sullivan appearance marked the beginning of a cultural revolution...The Beatles were like aliens dropped into the United States of 1964"". According to Gilmore: In 1965, Queen Elizabeth II appointed Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Starr Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE). The film ""Let It Be"" (1970) won the 1971 Academy Award for Best Original Song Score. The recipients of seven Grammy Awards and fifteen Ivor Novello Awards, the Beatles have been awarded six Diamond albums, as well as 24 Multi-Platinum albums, 39 Platinum albums and 45 Gold albums in the United States. In the UK,"
"a popularity in the UK comparable to that of the Beatles, with a run of eleven singles in the UK top ten. One of the most prominent acts in British popular culture, they scored four UK number one hits, ""Hot Love"", ""Get It On"", ""Telegram Sam"" and ""Metal Guru"". The band's 1971 album ""Electric Warrior"" received critical acclaim as a pioneering glam rock album. It reached number 1 in the UK. The 1972 follow-up, ""The Slider"", entered the top 20 in the US. Following the release of ""20th Century Boy"" in 1973, which reached number three in the UK, T."
"The Beatles' 1963 hit ""All My Loving"". It also featured an instrumental cover of its title song, ""South of the Border"", which was most famously done as a vocal by Frank Sinatra. ""Hello, Dolly!"" had the band singing a couple of lines of the mostly-instrumental rendition, in what might now be considered stereotyping, using mock-Mexican accents. Alpert's distinctive singing voice was not discernible in that portion. Also, in some versions, he can be heard whispering ""Número Cinco"", effecting a Mexican accent, at the start of that song's track. One number, a Sol Lake tune called ""The Mexican Shuffle"", was reworked"
"The Beatles derived their name), as well as earlier British groups such as The Shadows. After the national success of the Beatles in Britain from 1962, a number of Liverpool performers were able to follow them into the charts, including Gerry & The Pacemakers, The Searchers, and Cilla Black. Among the most successful beat acts from Birmingham were The Spencer Davis Group and The Moody Blues. From London, the term ""Tottenham Sound"" was largely based around The Dave Clark Five, but other London bands that benefited from the beat boom of this era included the Rolling Stones and The Yardbirds."
"with the text's and the rhythm's hesitations and unexpected turns."" Gould writes that, in its dialogue with Harrison's vocal, McCartney's fuzz bass suggests ""the snarls of an enraged schnauzer, snapping and striking at its lead"". In his book ""1965: The Year Modern Britain Was Born"", Bray writes that ""The Word"" marks the start of the Beatles' ""high psychedelic period"". Lennon's exhortation that ""The word is love"" anticipates the ethos behind the counterculture's 1967 Summer of Love. The lyrics focus on the concept of universal love as a path to spiritual enlightenment, with what Decker terms ""proselytizing zeal"" on the narrator's"
"100 Beatles songs in total. John Lennon first bestowed upon Smith the nickname of ""Normal"", and it was quickly picked up by the other Beatles. Lennon did so as a humorous reference to Smith's very unhurried, unflappable and amiable nature. While working with The Beatles on 17 June 1965, he was offered £15,000 by the band's music publishing company, Dick James Music, to buy outright a song he had written. In early 1967, he began working with a new group, Pink Floyd, producing their first, second, and fourth studio albums: ""The Piper at the Gates of Dawn"", ""A Saucerful of"
"eleven of their twelve studio albums released in the United Kingdom through to 1970 reached number one. The band's third single, ""From Me to You"", came out in April and was also a chart-topping hit, starting an almost unbroken string of seventeen British number-one singles for the Beatles, including all but one of the eighteen they released over the next six years. Issued in August, the band's fourth single, ""She Loves You"", achieved the fastest sales of any record in the UK up to that time, selling three-quarters of a million copies in under four weeks. It became their first"
"under drainpipe trousers. Cultural impact of the Beatles The Beatles were an English rock band, formed in Liverpool in 1960. With members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, they became widely regarded as the foremost and most influential act of the rock era. In the early 1960s, their enormous popularity first emerged as ""Beatlemania"", but as the group's music grew in sophistication, led by primary songwriters Lennon and McCartney, the band were integral to pop music's evolution into an art form and to the development of the counterculture of the 1960s. The Beatles' continued commercial and critical"
"unsuitable for recording work, and he wasn't very impressed by Best's replacement, Ringo Starr. Richards hired session drummer Andy White, and Richards and Martin produced the Beatles' first single ""Love Me Do"". Richards had suggested the Beatles' first record should be ""How Do You Do It?"" by Mitch Murray and, after Martin took control of the Beatles' sessions, Richards worked with Gerry and the Pacemakers, who were the first act to go to No. 1 with each of their first three singles, ""How Do You Do It?"", ""I Like It"", and using Martin's string arrangement, ""You'll Never Walk Alone"". In"
"already releasing their second Beatles album ""With the Beatles"" and had issued several singles which were not included on any UK albums with the exception of the first two (""Please Please Me""/""Ask Me Why"" and ""Love Me Do""/""PS I Love You""). While the Beatles' first two British albums each contained 14 tracks, in the American market albums were typically limited to 12 tracks and it was expected for albums to include the current hit single. The first three tracks on the album include the December 1963 Capitol single ""I Want to Hold Your Hand"" along with the record's B-sides both"
"Cultural impact of the Beatles The Beatles were an English rock band, formed in Liverpool in 1960. With members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, they became widely regarded as the foremost and most influential act of the rock era. In the early 1960s, their enormous popularity first emerged as ""Beatlemania"", but as the group's music grew in sophistication, led by primary songwriters Lennon and McCartney, the band were integral to pop music's evolution into an art form and to the development of the counterculture of the 1960s. The Beatles' continued commercial and critical success assisted many"
"set a number of milestones. See List of ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart achievements and milestones. ""Let It Be"" has been covered numerous times by various artists: Let It Be (song) ""Let It Be"" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, released in March 1970 as a single, and (in an alternate mix) as the title track of their album ""Let It Be"". At the time, it had the highest debut on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, beginning its chart run at number 6. It was written and sung by Paul McCartney. It was their final single before McCartney"
"the BBC ""as a joke,"" but it was watched by 30 million viewers. While this piece was largely forgotten, Beatles producer George Martin has said it ""aroused the kids' curiosity"". In the middle of January 1964, ""I Want to Hold Your Hand"" appeared suddenly, then vaulted to the top of nearly every top 40 music survey in the United States, launching the Fab Four's sustained, massive output. ""I Want to Hold Your Hand"" ascended to number one on the January 25, 1964 edition of ""Cash Box"" magazine (on sale January 18) and the February 1, 1964 edition of the Hot"
"The Pacemakers, who also hailed from Liverpool, were very much rivals of the Beatles in their early days—Gerry and the Pacemakers attained the first number one (""How Do You Do It"") before the Beatles, and also claimed their second and third number ones before the Beatles did, slowly losing steam afterwards as Beatlemania launched and the Beatles dominated music worldwide in 1964. A true indication of how successful the Beatles became thanks to ""From Me to You"" (though it would soon be overshadowed by ""She Loves You"" and ""I Want to Hold Your Hand"") was expressed by McCartney: ""The first"
"these bands was The Beatles. When John Lennon first met Paul McCartney, he was impressed that McCartney knew all the chords and the words to Eddie Cochran's ""Twenty Flight Rock"". As the band became more professional and began playing in Hamburg, they took on the ""Beatle"" name (inspired by Buddy Holly's Crickets ) and they adopted the black leather look of Gene Vincent. Musically, they combined Holly's melodic songwriting sensibility with the rough rock and roll sound of Vincent and Carl Perkins. When The Beatles became worldwide stars, they released versions of three different Carl Perkins songs, more than any"
"The Beatles mentioned ""love"" in their lyrics 613 times. In ""Scandal"", the secret agency is known as B613. 613 (number) 613 (six hundred [and] thirteen) is the natural number following 612 and preceding 614. 613 is a prime number, the first number of prime triplet (""p"", ""p"" + 4, ""p"" + 6), middle number of sexy prime triple (""p"" − 6, ""p"", ""p"" + 6). It is the index of a prime Lucas number. 613 is a centered square number with 18 per side, a circular number of 21 with a square grid and 27 using a triangular grid. It"
"Beatles singles in the March 21, 1964, edition (two weeks later, the top five slots were filled by Beatles singles). In a two-record set dubbed ""The Beatles vs the Four Seasons: The International Battle of the Century!"", Vee-Jay created an elaborate two-disc package that the purchaser could use to write on and score individual recordings by their favorite artist. The discs were reissues of the albums ""Introducing... The Beatles"" and ""Golden Hits of the Four Seasons"", featuring each original album's label, title and catalog number. Today, this album package is a collector's item. Nick Massi left the Four Seasons in"
"became their manager in December 1961, he polished up their image and later secured them a recording contract with EMI. The group's first single, ""Love Me Do"", peaked at number seventeen on the ""Record Retailer"" chart, and by the time their debut album, ""Please Please Me"", was released in early 1963, Beatlemania had arrived. Often serious and focused while on stage with the band, Harrison was known as ""the quiet Beatle"". He had two lead vocal credits on the LP, including the Lennon–McCartney song ""Do You Want to Know a Secret?"", and three on their second album, ""With the Beatles"""
"hits, they recorded songs for motion picture soundtracks, appeared in the 1965 film ""Beach Ball"", and endorsed dozens of products, at one point having their own brand of bread. By the end of 1966, their number-one hits included ""I Hear a Symphony"", ""You Can't Hurry Love"" and ""You Keep Me Hangin' On"". That year the group also released ""The Supremes A' Go-Go"", which on October 22 became the first album by an all-female group to reach number one on the US ""Billboard"" 200, knocking the Beatles' ""Revolver"" out of the top spot. Because the Supremes were popular with white audiences"
"competed with a Paul McCartney album over the top two positions on the Billboard chart. During the week ending June 6, 1970, the Beatles' album ""Let It Be"" jumped to the #2 position from its previous week's debut at #104, while McCartney's self-titled debut album ""McCartney"" held at #1 for a third straight week. The next week, ""Let It Be"" bumped up to #1, while ""McCartney"" slid to #2, where both albums remained positioned for four consecutive weeks. In both the United States and Britain, ""Rock 'n' Roll Music"" was accompanied by a single compiled from songs on the album."
"on The Beatles' ""Back in the U.S.S.R."" and also a reference to the DHSS, the government department that dealt with the unemployed, Nigel Blackwell having been on unemployment benefits since 1979. The band's first single, ""The Trumpton Riots"", topped the British independent chart in 1986, and they went on to perform at Glastonbury Festival. They were post-punk, similar to Josef K or The Fall. The second single, ""Dickie Davies Eyes"", also topped the indie chart. In late 1986, the band split up, giving as reason ""musical similarities"". The album ""Back Again in the DHSS"", containing previously issued, unreleased and live"
"collaborations. During the run of ""Daisy Petal Pickin'"" on the charts, the British Invasion began with the first hits by the Beatles. The group had difficulty competing with the influx of British artists and did not reach the Top 40 again until 1967, with ""Bottle of Wine"", which was written by Tom Paxton. The Fireballs took ""Bottle of Wine"" to number 9 on the Hot 100. Although Gilmer was still a member of the group, the band was billed simply as ""The Fireballs"" on that single. Gilmer was the lead vocal on the ""Bottle of Wine"" session. Gilmer left the"