The Beatles

The Beatles

The Beatles "Beatles" band is composed of four boys from Liverpool, England: John Lennon (guitarist and singer), Paul McCartney (bassist and singer), George Harrison (guitarist and singer) and Ringo Starr (drummer).

"This is really amazing! Between the four of us, we can often feel the true love for each other. It's amazing how close we are. Four people sincerely love each other, which is really exciting. "-Ringo Starr If we start from the beginning, we will go back to 1956. That year, John Lennon organized the band "Stone Pickers". 1957, their friend Paul mccartney joined. 1958, George Harrison also joined the band. In that autumn, they performed under the name "Boy and Moon Dog". They often performed in Liverpool, and people began to like this band ... 1959, they changed the name of the band to "Silver Beetle". At this time, they encountered a big problem-the band had no drummer. George Harrison said he knew a guy who came out of the club. He is Peter Baxter. So he joined the band.

In August of 1960, they simplified the name of the band to "The Beatles". At this time, they came to Hamburg, Germany, because it was easier to find the opportunity to perform there. But when they first arrived, they were told that the band must have five people. So they returned to Liverpool and asked a friend if he would like to join the band as a bass player. This man is Stuart Stucliffe. He said yes. It was already 196 1 year. They often perform in Hamburg. On a trip, they met the singer Tony Xie Lidan. Xie Lidan wanted to record her new album My Bonnie, but she couldn't find a band. The "Silver Beetle" said that they could accompany him and the two sides hit it off. The producer in Xie Lidan gave the band a new name "Rhythm Brothers", but this name was only used for this accompaniment.

196 1 year, the Beatles' first public performance in Hanover was held in a club named "Cave" in Liverpool. The audience included Brian Epstein, who owns a recording studio. He was deeply impressed by the performance of the Beatles. So he told the Beatles that he wanted to be the manager of the band. How can the "Beetles" not be tempted by this initiative to find the door? Peter Best felt uncomfortable in the band, so 1962 Ringo Starr (Richard Starch) replaced him. Before joining the Beatles, Ringo played in a band called Rory Storm and The Hurricanes. In the same year, Stucliffe died. Paul McCartney said he could play bass.

In 1962 10, they released their first single "Love Me Do". For them, this is more or less an achievement. From then on, they began to tour the whole country. Their new song "Please Please Me" topped the charts of popular songs. Some of their other early songs that topped the charts were "She Loves You" and "From Me To You". At this time, the real "Beetle" craze began. In the same year, they performed in Sweden for the first time, and now the United States is eager for them to perform. Brian Epstein and their producer george r.r. martin hope that they can perform in the United States. But the Beatles said, "Only when our songs win the first place in America will we go.". So they went to France instead of America. After a performance in France, they received a telegram to the hotel: "Congressional Records congratulates you! Your's songs won the first place in the American charts. So after their trip to France, they began to perform in the United States. There, they achieved great success. After a great trip in America, they returned to England and began to shoot their first film, Night after a Hard Day. It was 1965. Soon after, they began a world tour. They even received a medal from Her Majesty the Queen. The name of the new album and the second movie is HELP! ), sold millions of copies.

At the end of 1965, the Beatles performed in the "Xiye" Gymnasium in new york, with a record audience of 55,000. No one has ever had such a large audience before. At this time, their music becomes more varied. George Harrison was also inspired by Indian music, which can be heard from the album Rubber Heart. Soon they began to tour Asia, where they sang new songs, including "Paperback Writer". They also went to the Philippines, but they felt uncomfortable there, because the Beatles fans there were too much, and there were crazy fans everywhere, which made them very tired.

At the end of 1966, they performed in candlestick park in San Francisco, USA, which was their last official performance. Then they have more time to record songs.

1967, they produced the album "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and the single "All you need is Love" and "Penny Lane and strawberry fields Forever". They said, "These albums are our performances." These albums belong to the Beatles' greatest works. Soon after, they made their own film-TV "A Magical Journey with Magic" (also an album). By 1968, they recorded "The white album". 1969, they produced Let It Be. At this time, they were very tired and felt that these albums should be their last works. But they thought "Let It Be" was a bit too sad, so they made the album "Abbey Road". They gave their last performance on the roof of their Apple company in London.

1In April, 970, the Beatles announced their dissolution, but their members continued their respective music careers, and their albums were still on sale, among which a new recording anthology sold very well. The Beatles were, are and may be the most popular and successful music group in history.

Looking at the history of rock music now, the pioneers of rock music in the 1950s, such as Bill Haley, Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly, who were confined to the form of entertainment and lacked critical power and human nature analysis, were more like wandering ghosts in the chaotic period of rock music. It was not until The Beatles appeared that rock music had a god. The Beatles before and after 1962 are full of romanticism, optimism and endless vitality. Four young men who can be said to be from the lower classes and have unfortunate family experiences have gathered together through the same love for old-fashioned American swing music. Through some complicated opportunities, When they seem to be the pride of Liverpool, the pride of Britain, the target of screaming girls and avoiding the underwear they threw on the stage from time to time on the American stage on the other side of the ocean, they have temporarily forgotten their identity as bad students and the hardships of their childhood and indulged in the ecstasy brought by honor, money and success. With their clean-shaven faces, pot heads with big sideburns and gray-black suits, they truly and naturally exude childish and shy childishness. Their music at the same stage also shows similar characteristics: cheerful and smooth melody, simple orchestration, lively and elegant singing, endless praise for love and affectionate banter. Even if we agree that the early Beatles repeated a cliche with greasy melody and precocious children's chorus, it is unreasonable to constitute their insincerity; Moreover, Beatles always adhered to the principle of independent creation from the beginning of the team formation. Although they had publicly covered the songs of Chuck Berry and Little Richard at the earliest, since the first album Meet The Beatles, no work has left the original policy of the band's maverick. Therefore, The principle laid by Beatles for rock music not only enables rock music to express its liberation attitude to the traditional bondage in its musical appearance, but also makes the lyrics a forum for expressing its own position and stating justice and conscience, which makes it upgrade from a level of providing pure entertainment for teenagers to a cultural and artistic interface that can simultaneously load a large number of ideologies and ideas.

From the beginning, the band insisted on the populist and proletarian stance of rock and roll, such as 1963. 1 1.4. They were invited to perform in the Royal Variety Square. At the climax of the performance, John Lennon sarcastically said to the audience, "Just clap your hands in the ordinary seats, and the rich ladies sitting in the VIP seats will take out your jewelry and shake it."

The awakening of Beatles' artistic morality, that is, their doubts about the overall commercial music operation, began with their rationing of idiot or clown-like characters in some star photos, their endless signature photos, and their boredom with various occasions, especially the endless tour life. When they found that everyone was cheering wildly under the stage, people's voices had already drowned out the music, and it was precisely when the music was ignored that Beatles wanted to find out what people were cheering about and what the value and significance of everything they did was. 1966.8.29 At the moment when she finished performing in Candlestick Park in San Francisco and put down her musical instrument, Beatles decided not to take part in any public performance, and returned to the quiet almost sacred recording studio to liberate her creative enthusiasm and musical talent. The truly brilliant and outstanding rock genesis chapter has officially begun. Just as Ray Manzarek of The Doors outlined Jim Morrison's desperate and beautiful poems with smooth and gloomy music, Paul McCartney embellished Lennon's great humanitarianism and fraternity with his exhausted musical intuition in the pre-Beatles period and made it perfect. Guitarist George Harrison, who is deeply immersed in oriental metaphysics, has also created a lot of songs that criticize or hide philosophy, while drummer Ringo Star is considered to be the most mediocre one in Beatles, only responsible for "background rhythm passages", but it is his sensitivity to rhythm, especially his excellent use of bright percussion instruments, that adds to the psychedelic degree and strength in music. Albums Rubber Soul and Revolver beautify and change the musical intention of Beatles. Among them, classical orchestral music and lyrical words were creatively used, and many sound effects unheard of by popular music at that time were added. The band became interested in exploring the dark side of love. It was not a explicit expression of contempt and exuberant lust for women in Rolling Stone style, but a kind of ridicule and a ruthless exposure of the root cause behind the disillusionment of love-"I have seen through you, where have you been? /I thought I knew you well, but what do I know? /Your appearance remains the same, but you have changed./I have seen through you, and you are totally different from the past. "(I'm Looking Through You), Beatles, who used to love sweetly, finally discovered that" love has a bad habit of disappearing overnight ". In these two albums, lonely, dramatic, ingenious and complicated love scenes, serious human nature revelation and other text elements that have never appeared before have enabled several perhaps the best emotional destruction songs to appear, especially its starting point is not cynicism or self-maintenance, but despair, confusion and sympathy for not distinguishing good from evil-it is more willing to load when you still love someone deeply. However, that person suddenly, unambiguously and inexplicably stopped loving you, as described in the song For No One-the whole song uses excellent clauses and strong sounds when singing, which makes it urgent, rapid and dynamic, and a powerful piano and a loudspeaker (incredible) solo full of aesthetic color and loneliness enhance the effect of lyrics.

Beatles' application of orchestral music began with the famous song Yesterday, which undoubtedly broadened their musical expression channels. They have no intention to be pioneers or leaders in music practice, but only naturally apply various sound effects to improve the accuracy and fullness of expression. It is not so much the aura from nature as the conscious inheritance and unconscious abandonment of various formatted music themes, that is, the freedom in nature. Amazingly and incredibly, it appeared in the two works of Beatles, even in the two albums SGT. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and White Album, which are the most difficult to surpass in the whole rock history. Let's not talk about music first, but talk about the obvious hints about the experience of taking drugs in the soundtrack of a TV short play Magical Mystery Tour filmed by Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Beatles in 1967-"Eliminate distractions, relax, go downstream, /It's not a magical mystery tour. They sang hysterically at the end of their later works, Hey Judy, when the psychedelic state was obvious for several minutes, as well as the symbolic description of the psychedelic state in songs such as Black Bird and A Day In Life. Beatles admitted that as early as the 1960s, when they performed in Hamburg, Germany, they had tried the excitement caused by drugs. Afterwards, all four of them were addicted to drugs without exception-all four of the band except Starr had been detained and fined by the police for possession of drugs or taking drugs. If at first they ate forbidden fruit because of the impudence of teenagers and anxiety about the uncertain future, then their addiction to LSD in the future is due to loneliness, confusion, loss of ideals and fear of the blank mind after passion. For example, a film called Help was filmed in the later stage of the band! In the film, the four people show the world a negative and sinking face, which exposes the real situation of Beatles hidden behind positive optimism to some extent. When their thoughts and music are synchronized to maturity, they are also moving from juvenile adolescence to adulthood, love, marriage and having children. They are tired of pleasing the image of popular lovers, and they want to be themselves, so critical and experimental music emerges everywhere. At the same time, for individuals, especially the contradiction between Lennon and McCartney, the two helmsmen of the band, in their attitudes towards music and life has slowly evolved internally, which has inspired many kinds of songs with different angles and styles.

In short, no band has ever made such amazing strides and progress in its artistic achievements in less than ten years. Sgt.Pepper's is the most unified and well-conceived collection of songs in the 1960s. The theme of this work, which combines blues, acid jazz, electronic music, Indian religious music and classical elements, is to make people think that they are just trying to widen the distance from the listeners in amusement and recreation under the pretense of drama in the title, so that songs of various content forms can appear like clowns in the circus at will (this is verified in the cover design of perhaps the most famous album in rock history).

This is an album that does whatever it wants. Under the cover of deliberate self-alienation, Beatles has become reckless and completely indulgent, so that all kinds of feelings and concepts at both ends can be combined or appeared at the same time without controversy, perfectly combining the dark and bright sides of human nature; At the same time, it may be the most serious album in the history of rock and roll, and its neat and precise structure has surprisingly become the beginning and leader of conceptual works. Of course, its extremely rich and complicated sound organization cannot rule out their best exploration and mastery of recording methods, and the gorgeous and flashy music effect seems to be creating a musical anesthetic illusion. Among them, Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds and A Day In Life form a special type of image opposition in the whole song collection-fantasy and fact, aestheticism and ugliness: the former has "orange trees and jam-colored sky" and "a girl with kaleidoscope eyes", while the latter tells the story of a person who is "crazy in the car", which is full of contradictions in the whole album. The epic A Day In Life at the end of the album is a grotesque surrealist masterpiece, in which the language like stream of consciousness and music inlaid with a large piece of pure noise express the aversion to real life with negative and extreme content, which has been banned in many radio stations.

Under the influence of Harrison, 1968.2 Beatles went to India with his family and friends to seek spiritual support for religion, which was a failed trip-Maharisgi, the "saint" and "savior" they worshipped, was moved to a harem who went with Beatles, and his so-called oriental philosophy of abandoning the secular and transcending the soul naturally lost its persuasiveness. During this period, Brian Epstein, the manager of Beatles, died suddenly at home because of years of drug abuse, and the complicated economic affairs of the band immediately fell into chaos, and the sales performance of Apple Co., Ltd., the same industry, also showed a decline, but the album White Album was still released under Apple's banner at1968.1kloc-0/.22. White Album, a double album with a total length of 93 minutes 2 1 s, swept away all immature elements in Beatles' music in one fell swoop, while the content loomed a more thoughtful and personalized expression in the background close to the plain content in previous songs. At the same time, the differences of the band members' artistic orientation appear shattered glass in the album, although they have been tried to downplay it. However, the album inserts are almost full of personal photos, and the photos of four people are rarely seen. This ominous sign makes some kind of suspicion, betrayal and nostalgia for friendship vent the numbness of despair and indifference in all songs-many praises for drugs, propaganda for shunning the world, and strong interpretation of self-abandonment, such as I'm So Tired, Black Bird, Everyone's got something to hide except me and My Monkey; On the old topic of love, Beatles also properly solved the above-mentioned feelings, saving himself, mocking himself, but self-sealing, pretentious-"So I sing a song about love for Julia" (Julia); Hippies are full of gas and obviously ask, "Why can't we do it on the road?" (Why Don't We Do It In The Road); Male chauvinistic confusion and rage after the breakup of love "I'm sorry, don't let me tear you apart, you should have been a lover instead of a dancer" (Helter skelter); Use the redemptive power of love to reflect the extreme depression in my heart. "I am so suicidal that I even hate my rock music. I hope to die alone. If I hadn't died before, girl, you know why." （Yer Blues)。

Other things that must be mentioned are: the theme that the album deviates from; The ultimate concern for human destiny; Compared with Sgt.Pepper's, the arrangement is more diverse and complicated, but it also shows excessive dependence on recording technology, excessive orchestral music and extreme pursuit of sound effects, which will lead to a double illusion of showing off and being poor in skills. And that song, which has mixed reviews, can be random music, ambient music and low-limit music, but it is undoubtedly Revolution 9 used for experiments. Looking back now, aside from its implied liberation meaning, it is actually Beatles' completely relaxed, nonsense-like childish game and the freedom and indifference at the peak, just as many masters of painting gave up color and shape in their twilight years and only used carbon pens and lines to do urchin-like daubing. In short, it is a tasteless but appetizing cocktail for most people. Lennon met Yoko Ono Lennon, an avant-garde artist who was six years older than him, at a post-modern art exhibition called "Unfinished Paintings and Objects". Shortly after they fell in love and lived together, Lennon divorced his ex-wife and married Yoko on 1969.3.20. With Lennon's support, Yoko got too involved in Beatles' daily affairs and music creation, and the other members of the band developed from unaccustomed to unbearable. When Lennon publicly declared in his solo album John Lennon/Pastic Ono Band that "in my eyes, it was just me, Yoko and me", everyone knew that it was impossible and meaningless for the band to exist any longer.

After 68 years, all four members of the band except McCartney have long hair and sideburns, which can be regarded as the requirement of Indian mysticism or their response to hippie costumes. In fact, they hope that people will stop thinking that they are still flashy pop cream students through this savage-like appearance, hope that people can reposition them from the perspective of art and sociology, and hope to throw the band's ambition of constantly changing its music style and deepening its consciousness to the public and be the last in the band. 1970.6, McCartney was the first to announce the statement of independent development, and suggested to Lennon to dissolve the band through his lawyer. With regard to the final music situation of the band, we will remember Abbey Road and Let It Be, two vast and magnificent sad songs of life, filled with the awe-inspiring coldness of the hero's end and tears of self-pity, but more simple, modern, trendy, nostalgic and straightforward. While they are trying to maintain the style of Beatles and trying to continue their myth, the music shows a little reluctance-everyone is speculating that they will face the end, and the concept of Beatles may have been erased from their hearts one year before the band was dissolved. They are more eager to keep their belief in their magical and brilliant history, and their honest habits make each of their later songs hide the taste of self-mockery, while each other's hypocrisy and embarrassment make the main theme only for a player. A "Let It Be", the legend of ten years is a dream ripple with water. …………

It is difficult to find accurate language to define the position of Beatles in contemporary rock and contemporary culture, and its importance in the hearts of fans. The latter can be said that it is located in the center of the altar of the largest and most majestic church in the post-industrial cultural community, and it will always be the Garden of Eden in the souls of all teenagers who are eager to be comforted, inspired and loved from 40 years ago to the end of mankind.

Members are as follows:

John Lennon, guitarist and lead singer.

Paul mccartney, a bass player and singer.

George harrison, guitarist and singer.

Ringo Starr-Drummer and Singer

catalogue

1 publishing list

1. 1 UK

1. 1. 1 EP

1. 1.2 compact disc

1. 1.3 album

1. 1.4 British CD compact disc /EP

1.2 USA

1.2. 1 EP

1.2.2 compact disc

1.2.3 album

1.3 video

2 External links

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Publication list

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Britain

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EP

1963 The Beatles' Hits

1963 The Beatles (No. 1)

1964 All My Loving

1964 Long Tall Sally

1964 Extracts From The Film A Hard Day's Night

1964 Extracts From The Album A Hard Day's Night

1965 Beatles For Sale

1965 Beatles For Sale (No. 2)

1965 The Beatles' Million Sellers

1966 Yesterday

1966 Nowhere Man

1967 Magical Mystery Tour

198 1 The Beatles

1995 Baby It's You

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Disc

1962 "My Bonnie"/"The Saints"

1962 "Love Me Do"/"P.S. I Love You"

1963 "Please Please Me"/"Ask Me Why"

1963 "From Me To You"/"Thank You Girl"

1963 "She Loves You"/"I'll Get You"

1963 "I Want To Hold You Hand"/"This Boy"

1963 The Beatles Christmas Record

1964 "Can't Buy Me Love"/"You Can't Do That"

1964 "A Hard Day's Night"/"Things We Said Today"

1964 "I Feel Fine"/"She's A Woman"

1964 Another Beatles Christmas Record

1965 "Ticket To Ride"/"Yes It Is"

1965 "Help!" /"I'm Down"

1965 "We Can Work It Out"/"Day Tripper"

1965 The Beatles Third Christmas Record

1966 "Paperback Writer"/"Rain"

1966 "Eleanor Rigby"/"Yellow Submarine"

1966 Pantomime: Everywhere It's Christmas

1967 "Strawberry Fields Forever"/"Penny Lane"

1967 "All You Need Is Love"/"Baby, You're A Rich Man"

1967 "Hello, Goodbye"/"I Am The Walrus"

1967 Christmas Time (Is Here Again)

1968 "Lady Madonna"/"The Inner Light"

1968 "Hey Jude"/"Revolution"

1968 Christmas 1968

1969 "Get Back"/"Don't Let Me Down"

1969 "The Ballad Of John And Yoko"/"Old Brown Shoe"

1969 "Something"/"Come Together"

1969 The Beatles Seventh Christmas Record

1970 "Let It Be"/"You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)"

1976 "Yesterday"/"I Should Have Known Better"

1976 "Back In The U.S.S.R."/"Twist And Shout"

1978 "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"/"With A Little Help From My Friends"/"A Day In The Life"

1982 "The Beatles Movie Medley"/"I'm Happy Just To Dance With You"

1982 "love me do"/"p.s.i love you" (reprint)

1982 "Love Me Do"/"P.S. I Love You"

1983 "please please me"/"ask me why" (reprint)

1983 "from me to you"/"thank you girl" (reprint)

1983 "she loves you"/"I'll get you" (reprint)

1983 "I want to hold your hand"/"this boy" (reprint)

1984 "can't buy me love"/"you can't do that" (reprint)

1984 "a hard day's night"/"things we said today" (reprinted)

1984 "I feel fine"/"She's a woman" (reprinted)

1985 "ticket to ride"/"yes it is" (reprint)

1985 "Help!" /"I'm Down "(reprint)

1985 "we can work it out"/"day tripper" (reprint)

1986 "paperback writer"/"rain" (reprint)

1986 "Eleanor Rigby"/"Yellow Submarine" (reprint)

1987 "strawberry fields forever"/"penny lane" (reprint)

1987 "all you need is love"/"baby, you're a rich man" (reprint)

1987 "hello, goodbye"/"I am the Walrus" (reprint)

1988 "lady Madonna"/"the inner light" (reprint)

1988 "hey Jude"/"revolution" (reprint)

1989 "get back"/"don't let me down" (reprint)

1989 "The Ballad of John and Yoko"/"Old Brown Shoe" (reprint)

1989 "something"/"come together" (reprint)

1990 "let it be"/"you know my name (look up the number)" (reprint)

1995 "Free As A Bird"/"Christmas Time (Is Here Again)"

1996 "Real Love"/"Baby's In Black"

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Big disc

1963 Please Please Me

1963 With The Beatles

1964 A Hard Day's Night

1964 Beatles For Sale

1965 Help!

1965 Rubber Soul

1966 Revolver

1966 A Collection Of Beatles Oldies

1967 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

1968 The Beatles

1969 Yellow Submarine

1969 Abbey Road

1969 No One's Gonna Change Our World

1970 Let It Be

1970 From Then To You

1973 The Beatles 1962 - 1966

1973 The Beatles 1967 - 1970

1976 Magical Mystery Tour

1977 The Beatles At The Hollywood Bowl

1979 Hey Jude

1980 The Beatles Box

1988 Past Masters

1994 Live At The BBC

1995 Anthology 1

1996 Anthology 2

1996 Anthology 3

1999 Yellow Submarine Songtrack

2000 1

2003 Let It Be... Naked

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British CD compact disc /EP

1989 "Love Me Do"/"P.S. I Love You"

1989 "Please Please Me"/"Ask Me Why"

1989 "From Me To You"/"Thank You Girl"

1989 "She Loves You"/"I'll Get You"

1989 "I Want To Hold Your Hand"/"This Boy"

1989 "Can't Buy Me Love"/"You Can't Do That"

1989 "A Hard Day's Night"/"Things We Said Today"

1989 "I Feel Fine"/"She's A Woman"

1989 "Ticket To Ride"/"Yes It Is"

1989 "Help!" /"I'm Down"

1989 "We Can Work It Out"/"Day Tripper"

1989 "Paperback Writer"/"Rain"

1989 "Eleanor Rigby"/"Yellow Submarine"

1989 "Strawberry Fields Forever"/"Penny Lane"

1989 "All You Need Is Love"/"Baby, You're A Rich Man"

1989 "Hello, Goodbye"/"I Am The Walrus"

1989 "Lady Madonna"/"The Inner Light"

1989 "Hey Jude"/"Revolution"

1989 "Get Back"/"Don't Let Me Down"

1989 "The Ballad Of John And Yoko"/"Old Brown Shoe"

1989 "Something"/"Come Together"

1989 "Let It Be"/"You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)"

1992 The Beatles' Hits

1992 Twist And Shout

1992 The Beatles (No. 1)

1992 All My Loving

1992 Long Tall Sally

1992 Extracts From The Film A Hard Day's Night

1992 Extracts From The Album A Hard Day's Night

1992 Beatles For Sale

1992 Beatles For Sale (No. 2)

1992 The Beatles'