"The Beatles' recording sessions The recordings made by the Beatles, a rock group from Liverpool, England, from their inception as the Quarrymen in 1957 to their break-up in 1970 and the reunion of their surviving members in the mid-1990s, have huge cultural and historical value. The studio session tapes are kept at Abbey Road Studios, formerly known as ""EMI Recording Studios,"" where the Beatles recorded most of their music. While most have never been officially released, their outtakes and demos are seen by fans as collectables, and some of the recordings have appeared on countless bootlegs. Until 2013, the only"
"Break-up of the Beatles The Beatles' break-up was a cumulative process during the final years of their career, marked by rumours of a split and by ambiguous comments by the members themselves regarding their future as a band. In September 1969, John Lennon privately informed his bandmates that he was leaving the band, but there was no public acknowledgement of the break-up until 10 April 1970, when Paul McCartney announced he was also leaving the group. There were numerous causes for the band's break-up, including their resignation from touring in 1966 and the death of their manager Brian Epstein in"
"mismanagement of Harrison's Bangladesh aid project, and Lennon felt betrayed by Klein's lack of support for his and Ono's increasingly political music. After Lennon, Harrison and Starr formally severed their ties with Klein in March 1973, initiating a wave of new lawsuits in London and New York, the four former bandmates were able to work cooperatively towards a settlement. This document, known as ""The Beatles Agreement"", was signed by the four in December 1974. The formal dissolution of the partnership then took place on 9 January 1975. Break-up of the Beatles The Beatles' break-up was a cumulative process during the"
"as a welcome-back gesture. Despite a temporary return to congeniality during the completion of the White Album, production of the Beatles' fourth feature film, ""Let It Be"", and its accompanying LP, further strained band relationships. On 20 August 1969, the Beatles gathered for the final time at Abbey Road Studios for a mixing session for ""I Want You"". At a business meeting on 20 September, Lennon told the others that he had quit the Beatles, although the band's break-up would not become public knowledge until McCartney's announcement on 10 April 1970 that he was also leaving. Shortly before McCartney announced"
"longer the ""really tight"" social unit they had been throughout the chaos of Beatlemania – or the ""four-headed monster"", as Mick Jagger famously called them – the individual Beatles were still bonded by genuine friendship during their final, troubled years as a band, even if it was now more of a case of being locked together at a deep psychological level after such a sustained period of heightened experience. Eric Clapton has described this bond as being just like that of a typical family, ""with all the difficulties that entails"". When the band finally split, in April 1970 – a"
"opens with the song. A version from the 1973 recording session with Lennon on lead vocals appeared on the 1998 box set ""John Lennon Anthology"". The Beatles broke up in April 1970, having achieved an unprecedented level of international fame for a musical act, and after helping to inspire many of the musical and cultural changes of the 1960s. In the eyes of the media and the public, the band members were divided into two factions: John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, all of whom had opted to engage the services of Allen Klein to manage the group's Apple"
"name, and went through several others during this period, including Los Paranoias. By March 1960, Lennon and Sutcliffe came up with a new name: the Beatles. The Beatles (after several line-up changes, including adding Mona's son Pete Best on drums) continued to perform around Liverpool and in Hamburg, Germany, before being signed to Parlophone Records in 1962. After their signing, the Beatles achieved worldwide fame and became one of the most popular and successful musical artists of all time, before breaking up in 1970. Since the break-up of the Beatles in 1970 and the death of John Lennon in 1980,"
"break-up of the Beatles. Christensen and Rosendahl entered the Tomorrow Never Dies soundtrack contest by writing a song of the same name. The contest was won by Sheryl Crow. It was around that time Christensen first bought and experimented with a Mellotron, which would continue to feature on many of his songs. Christensen also produced Rosendahl's 1997 demo ""Dream Away"", and wrote arrangements for and played several instruments on some of Swan Lee's earlier songs. When Christensen met with his band mates from Dizzy Mizz Lizzy on 10 March 1998 at the Rosenborg Castle Gardens, they decided to split up"
"studio broke with the Beatles' policy regarding wives and girlfriends not attending recording sessions. After a series of problems, including producer George Martin taking a sudden leave of absence and engineer Geoff Emerick suddenly quitting, Ringo Starr left the band briefly in August. The same tensions continued throughout the following year, leading to the break-up of the band by 1970. On release, ""The Beatles"" received favourable reviews from the majority of music critics, but other commentators found its satirical songs unimportant and apolitical amid the turbulent political and social climate of 1968. The band and Martin later debated whether the"
"with a tour in the United States but Morris disagreed and they separated in late 1969. Meldrum also produced several other hits—including Burns' top ten single, ""Smiley"", in December 1969—while continuing to write for ""Go-Set"" and a variety of magazines. Meldrum made his first of many visits to Egypt and by December had travelled on to UK, and through Doran, began working for Apple Corps as a publicist, which enabled him to score a scoop interview with Lennon and Yoko Ono, in which Lennon first revealed publicly that The Beatles were breaking up. Meldrum left UK in 1970 to travel"
"1967. Conflicts also arose from differences in artistic vision. Both George Harrison and Ringo Starr temporarily left the group at various points during 1968 and 1969; by 1970 all four members had begun working on solo projects after realising the likelihood that the band would not regroup. Ultimately, animosity made it impossible for the group to continue working together. In the ensuing years, there were sporadic collaborative recording efforts among the band members, but never with all four Beatles simultaneously collaborating as a recording or performing group again. After Lennon's death in 1980, the remaining three reunited for the ""Anthology"""
"and Lee Eastman–fought the three remaining Beatles' business manager, Allen Klein, over royalties and creative control. An English court legally dissolved the Beatles on 9 January 1975, though sporadic lawsuits against their record company EMI, Klein, and each other persisted until 1989. McCartney was depressed after the group disbanded. His wife helped him pull out of that condition by praising his work as a songwriter and convincing him to continue writing and recording. In her honour, he wrote ""Maybe I'm Amazed"", explaining that with the Beatles breaking up, ""that was my feeling: Maybe I'm amazed at what's going on... Maybe"
"as ""shattering"". Although the official announcement came on 10 April 1970, the group's demise was initiated by John Lennon's statement during a September 1969 band meeting that he wanted a ""divorce"" from his fellow Beatles. In a February 1970 interview in ""Look"" magazine, midway through sessions for his first solo album, ""Sentimental Journey"", Starr explained his disorientation: ""I keep looking around and thinking where are they? What are they doing? When will they come back and talk to me?"" Author Bruce Spizer suggests that these sentiments ""form the basis"" of Starr's composition ""Early 1970"". The four verses of the song"
"appoint his in-laws, New York lawyers Lee and John Eastman, as the band's business advisors, Lennon's outburst attracted the attention of the less conservative Klein. The latter effectively became the Beatles' manager when Harrison and Ringo Starr also chose to put their faith in his tough approach to business. Refusing to acknowledge Klein as his representative, McCartney later cited this division as the first ""irreconcilable difference"" among the four Beatles, leading to the band's break-up in April 1970. Although he was actively involved as a director of Apple Records, and remained committed to running the label until its winding down"
"break-up in 1970, gave no further commercial concerts, instead devoting their efforts to creating new material in the recording studio. Between 1964 and 1970, they maintained the number one single in the US for a total of 59 weeks and topped the LP charts for 116 weeks. In other words, they had the top-selling single one out of every six weeks, and the top-selling album one out of every three weeks. For the annual best-band poll conducted by ""NME"" between 1963 and 1969, 1966 was the only year that the Beatles did not win, coming second to the Beach Boys."
"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"
"his love of The Beatles. They would have several pop hits in the second half of the 1970s. ""I'd Really Love to See You Tonight"" was the pair's biggest hit, reaching No. 2 in 1976 and becoming their only gold single. Their other hits include ""Nights Are Forever Without You"" (No. 10 in 1976-77); ""It's Sad to Belong"" (No. 21) and ""Gone Too Far"" (No. 23), both in 1977; ""We'll Never Have to Say Goodbye Again"" (No. 9 in 1978); and their last Top 40 hit, ""Love Is the Answer"" (No. 10 in May 1979). After seven LPs, they disbanded"
"calls it ""on the whole underrated""; he singles out ""some good moments of straight hard rock in 'I've Got a Feeling' and 'Dig a Pony'"", and praises ""Let It Be"", ""Get Back"", and ""the folky 'Two of Us', with John and Paul harmonising together"". McCartney filed suit for the dissolution of the Beatles' contractual partnership on 31 December 1970. Legal disputes continued long after their break-up, and the dissolution was not formalised until 29 December 1974, when John Lennon signed the paperwork terminating the partnership while on vacation with his family at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. Lennon, McCartney,"
"out with the Maharishi engendered a long-lasting suspicion that ""they'd become faddists tipped into eccentric habits by unfathomable fame"". Having given up touring in 1966, the trip to India was the last time all four Beatles travelled together. Their self-exploration through meditation and before that, LSD, led to each of them adopting a more individual focus, at the expense of band unity, through to the group's break-up in 1970. The acrimony within the band was evident during the recording of their 1968 double album ""The Beatles"" (also known as the ""White Album""), when they recorded many of the songs written"
"used for the band's American album ""Yesterday and Today"", death threats and political incidents during their visits to Japan and the Philippines, and condemnation from some religious groups in America in response to John Lennon's comment that the Beatles had become more popular than Christ. After completing their world tour on 29 August, the four band members took a break from group activities for three months. Due to the attention that their individual activities received, by early November, rumours in the press claimed that the band were breaking up. Alternatively, according to a report in ""The Sunday Telegraph"", the Beatles"
"to have the release of his eponymous first solo album delayed to allow for the Beatles' ""Let It Be"" album led to the band's break-up on 10 April 1970. Late that month, Harrison visited Apple's new offices at 1700 Broadway, New York, where he announced his intention to begin working with American producer Phil Spector on an album of his unused songs, some of which he had been stockpiling for up to four years. Noting the emotional disarray of Lennon, McCartney and Starr at this point, Doggett writes of their former bandmate: ""Harrison retained a sense of objectivity. The youngest"
"at short notice when Best did not turn up on the evening of his dismissal and for two subsequent bookings, until Ringo Starr was able to join. Starr was well known to the group, as he was then playing with Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, the resident group at Butlins' holiday complex in Skegness. He had also occasionally replaced Best when the drummer was ill, and had performed at a recording session with Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison in Hamburg. The Beatles made their last official live appearance in Britain on 1 May 1966, at the NME Annual Poll-Winners' All-Star Concert"
"1966 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 music band in history, integral to pop music's evolution into an art form and to the development of the counterculture of the 1960s. Rooted in skiffle, beat and 1950s rock and roll, the group later experimented with several musical styles, ranging from pop ballads and Indian music to psychedelia and hard rock, often incorporating classical elements and unconventional recording techniques in innovative ways. Led"
"""rooftop"" version of ""Get Back"", which was the last song of the Beatles' final live performance, was included in ""Anthology 3"". An edit of the two takes of ""Don't Let Me Down"" was included on ""Let It Be... Naked."" There was also a brief jam of ""I Want You (She's So Heavy)"" while the cameramen changed film. The Beatles' rooftop concert marked the end of an era for many fans. The group did record one more album, ""Abbey Road"", but by September 1969 the Beatles had unofficially disbanded. Several of the rooftop performances, particularly that of ""Dig a Pony"", showed"
"and The Beatles. The Elms released their major-label debut album, ""The Chess Hotel"", on May 2, 2006. The band's final album, ""The Great American Midrange"", was released on September 15, 2009. It peaked at #18 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart and was The Elms' highest-charting album to date. The only officially released single from ""The Great American Midrange"" was the song ""Back To Indiana,"" and the track's music video premiered online in November 2009. On June 1, 2010 the band announced via their web site that they would disband in July 2010. Owen Thomas and Thomas Daugherty met while attending"
"You (She's So Heavy)"" on 20 August 1969 was the last occasion on which all four Beatles were together in the same studio. Lennon announced his departure to the rest of the group on 20 September, but agreed to withhold a public announcement to avoid undermining sales of the forthcoming album. Released six days after Lennon's declaration, ""Abbey Road"" sold 4 million copies within three months and topped the UK charts for a total of seventeen weeks. Its second track, the ballad ""Something"", was issued as a single – the only Harrison composition ever to appear as a Beatles A-side."
"single. The formation of the Plastic Ono Band was conceived as an artistic outlet for Lennon and Ono, but the enthusiastic reception afforded their performance at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival on 13 September 1969 ostensibly crystallised Lennon's decision to leave the Beatles, which he made on the flight back to London. During a band meeting at Apple on 20 September, he informed McCartney, Starr and Klein of his decision (Harrison was not present at the meeting), telling them he wanted a ""divorce"". That same day, the band signed a renegotiated recording contract with Capitol Records, guaranteeing them a"
"the US. The success of ""Dream a Little Dream of Me"" confirmed Elliot's desire to embark on a solo career, and by the end of 1968 it appeared that the group had split. Its chart performance had become increasingly erratic, with three of its last four singles failing on both sides of the Atlantic. As John Phillips recalled, ""Times had changed. The Beatles showed the way. Music itself was heading toward a technological and compositional complexity that would leave many of us behind. It was tough to keep up."" The group ""made it official"" at the beginning of 1969: ""Dunhill"
"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 music band in history, integral to pop music's evolution into an art form and to the development of the counterculture of the 1960s. Rooted in skiffle, beat and 1950s rock and roll, the group later experimented with several musical styles, ranging from pop ballads and Indian music to psychedelia and hard rock, often incorporating classical elements and unconventional recording techniques in innovative ways. Led by"
"in March 1971. He decided that the combined financial affairs of the former Beatles should be placed in the care of a receiver until mutually acceptable terms for their break-up could be found. Klein thereby retained a position in the post-breakup solo careers of Harrison, Starr, and Lennon, but was no longer in charge of their affairs as a partnership. For a time after the Beatles' contentious break-up, George Harrison was the most popular and successful of the former group. His November 1970 three-disc set, ""All Things Must Pass"", was a sales triumph, and produced hit singles in ""My Sweet"
"they each enjoyed success as solo artists. Lennon was shot and killed in December 1980, and Harrison died of lung cancer in November 2001. McCartney and Starr remain musically active. The Beatles are the best-selling band in history, with estimated sales of over 800 million records worldwide. They are the best-selling music artists in the United States, with 178 million certified units. The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988, and all four main members were inducted individually from 1994 to 2015. They have also had more number-one albums on the British charts and"
"Crate"" series in September 2009 and saw a remastered LP release on 180-gram vinyl in 2012. Notes According to Mark Lewisohn, Ian MacDonald and Barry Miles. The Beatles Additional musicians Production Footnotes Citations Bibliography Abbey Road Abbey Road is the eleventh studio album by English rock band the Beatles, released on 26 September 1969 by Apple Records. The recording sessions for the album were the last in which all four Beatles participated. Although ""Let It Be"" was the final album that the Beatles completed before the band's dissolution in April 1970, most of the album had been recorded before the"
"and a long medley on side two. In October 1969, a rumour surfaced that McCartney had died in a car crash in 1966 and been replaced by a lookalike, but this was quickly refuted when a November ""Life"" magazine cover featured him and his family, accompanied by the caption ""Paul is still with us"". McCartney was in the midst of business disagreements with his bandmates when he announced his departure from the group on 10 April 1970. He filed a suit for the band's formal dissolution on 31 December 1970. More legal disputes followed as McCartney's attorneys– his in-laws John"