The Beatles

The Beatles

The Beatles The Beatles are 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 is surprising that we are so close. It's really exciting that four people really love each other. " -Ringo Starr If we start from the beginning, we will go back to 1956. That year, John Lennon organized the Stone Pickers. 1957, their friend paul mccartney joined. 1958, george harrison joined the band. That autumn, they performed under the name "Boys and Moon Dogs". 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 did not have a drummer. George harrison said he knew someone who came out of the club. He is Peter Baxter. So he joined the band.

1In August, 960, 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 went back 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 has been 196 1 year. They often perform in Hamburg. On a trip, they met the singer Tony Xie Li Dan. Sheridan wants to record her new album My Bonnie, but she can't find a band. "Silver Beetle" said that he could accompany him, and the two sides hit it off. The producer in Sheridan 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 Beatles's performance. So he told the Beatles that he wanted to be the manager of the band. How can this "beetle" who comes to the door on its own initiative not be tempted? Peter Best didn't feel well in the band, so Richard Starr replaced him in 1962. Before joining The Beatles, Ringo played in a band called Rory Storm and Hurricane. In the same year, Stucliffe died. Paul mccartney said he could play the bass.

1June, 962, released the first single "Love Me, Do It". For them, this is more or less an achievement. From then on, they began to tour the whole country. Their new song "Please Please Please Me" topped the pop charts. Some of their other early songs that topped the charts were "She Love 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 America is eager for them to perform. Brian Epstein and their producer, George R. R. Martin, want them to perform in the United States. But the Beatles said, "We will only go if our song wins the first place in America." . So they went to France instead of America. After the performance in France, they received a telegram to the hotel: "Congratulate you on the congressional record! Your song won the first place in the American charts. " So after their trip to France, they began to perform in America. There, they achieved great success. After a great trip in America, they returned to England and began to shoot their first film. At night after a hard day's work. Yes 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.

1At the end of 965, 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. At this time, their music became more diverse. George harrison is 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 there were too many Beatles fans and crazy fans everywhere, which made them very tired.

By 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 Sgt Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band and the single All You Need is Love and Penny's 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 Magic Journey (also an album). By 1968, they recorded the White Album. 1969, they produced "Let It Be". By this time, they were very tired and thought that these albums should be their last works. But they thought "Let it be" was a bit too sad, so they released the album "Abbey Road". They gave their last performance on the roof of the Apple Company in London.

1In April, 970, The Beatles announced its dissolution, but the members continued their musical careers, and their albums were still on sale, and one of the newly recorded albums sold very well. The Beatles was, is and will probably be the most popular and successful music group in history.

Throughout the present history of rock music, bill haley, Elvis Presley, buddy holly and other pioneers of rock music in the 1950s were confined to the form of entertainment, lacking criticism and human analysis, and more like wandering souls in the chaotic period of rock music. Rock music didn't have a god until The Beatles appeared. The Beatles around 1962 were full of romanticism, optimism and endless vitality. Four young people, who can be said to be from the lower classes and all have unfortunate family experiences, came together through the same love for American old-fashioned swing music. Through some complicated opportunities, when they are on the American stage on the other side of the ocean, it seems that they have become the pride of Liverpool and the pride of Britain, and they have become the object of girls screaming. From time to time, they have avoided the underwear they threw on the stage. They have temporarily forgotten their identity as bad students and the hardships of their childhood, and they are intoxicated with the ecstasy brought by honor, money and success. They have clean shaven faces, pot heads with big sideburns, and gray-black suits, which truly and naturally exude childish and shy childishness. Their music on 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, there is no reason to constitute their insincerity; Moreover, the Beatles have always adhered to the principle of independent creation since the formation of the team. Although they were the first to cover the songs of Chuck Berry and little richard in public, since the first album "Meeting the Beatles", no work has deviated from the original intention of the band. Therefore, the principles laid by the Beatles for rock music not only make rock music express its liberation attitude to the traditional bondage in its musical appearance, but also make lyrics a forum for expressing its own position and stating justice and conscience, and upgrade it from the level of providing pure entertainment for young people to a cultural and artistic interface that can simultaneously load a large number of ideologies and thoughts.

From the beginning, the band insisted on the populist and proletarian positions of rock, such as 1963 438+05438+0.4. They were invited to perform at the Royal Variety Square. At the climax of the performance, John Lennon sarcastically said to the audience, "clap your hands when you sit in the ordinary seat, and the rich women sitting in the VIP seat will take out your jewelry and shake it."

The awakening of the Beatles' artistic morality, that is, their doubts about the overall commercial music operation, began with their allocation of idiot or clown-like roles in some star photos, their endless signature photos, and their boredom with various occasions, especially the endless tour life. When they found that everyone in the audience was cheering wildly, people's voices had already drowned out the music, and it was when the music was ignored that the Beatles wanted to find out what people were cheering and what the value and significance of everything they did were. 1966 On August 29th, the performance in San Francisco Candlestick Park ended. When she put down her musical instrument, the Beatles decided not to take part in any public performance, and returned to the quiet and almost sacred recording studio to release her creative enthusiasm and musical talent. The truly brilliant and outstanding rock genesis chapter officially began. Just as Ray Manzarek in The Door outlined jim morrison's desperate and beautiful poems with smooth and gloomy music, paul mccartney embellished Lennon's great humanitarianism and fraternity with his tired musical intuition before the Beatles, and made it perfect. George harrison, a guitarist deeply involved in oriental metaphysics, has also written a lot of songs that criticize or hide philosophy, while Ringo Starr, a drummer, is considered as the most mediocre one in The Beatles, who is only responsible for "background rhythm paragraphs", but it is his sensitivity to rhythm, especially his excellent use of bright percussion instruments, that increases the degree and intensity of psychedelic music. The albums Rubber Soul and Revolver beautified and changed the Beatles' musical intention. Among them, classical orchestral music and lyric words were creatively used, and many sound effects unheard of by pop music at that time were added. The band became interested in exploring the dark side of love. It was not a rolling stone-like explicit expression of women's contempt and exuberant lust, but a mockery, a ruthless exposure of the root cause behind the disillusionment of love-"I saw through you, where did you go?" 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, you are completely different from the past. " (I'm looking at you), the Beatles, who once loved each other sweetly, finally found out 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 unprecedented text elements have made several perhaps the best emotional destruction songs appear, especially because its starting point is not cynicism or self-preservation, but despair, confusion and sympathy for not distinguishing good from evil-it is more willing to load when you are still deeply in love with someone. However, that person suddenly, unequivocally and inexplicably stopped loving you, just as described in the song "For Nobody"-the whole song was sung with excellent clauses and strong sounds, which made it appear urgent, rapid and dynamic, while the powerful piano and loudspeaker (incredible) solo full of aesthetic colors and loneliness enhanced the effect of lyrics.

The 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 naturally use various sound effects to improve the accuracy and fullness of expression. It is not so much an aura from nature as a conscious inheritance and unconscious abandonment of various formatted music themes, that is, freedom in nature. Amazingly and incredibly, it appeared in two Beatles' works, and even in the two most difficult albums in the whole rock history, Sgt Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band and White Album. Let's not talk about music. Let's talk about 1967 Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart Club band and the obvious hint about drug abuse experience in the soundtrack of a TV short play "Magic mystery tour" filmed by The Beatles-"Get rid of distractions, relax and go downstream./This is not a magical mystery tour. They sang hysterically at the end of their later work Hey Judy, when the psychedelic state was obvious for a few minutes, and there were symbolic descriptions of the psychedelic state in songs such as Blackbird and A Day in Life. The Beatles admitted that as early as 1960s, when they performed in Hamburg, Germany, they tried the excitement brought by drugs. Afterwards, all four of them were addicted to drugs without exception-all four of the band except Starr were detained by the police and fined for possession of drugs or taking drugs. If they eat forbidden fruit at first because of the impudence of teenagers and anxiety about uncertain future, then their addiction to psychedelic drugs in the future is due to loneliness, confusion, loss of ideals and fear of blank hearts after passion. For example, the band made a movie called "Help" later! In the film, the four people show the world a negative and sinking face, which exposes the real situation of the Beatles hidden behind positive optimism to some extent. When their thoughts and music mature synchronously, they are also moving from adolescence to adulthood, falling in love, getting married and having children. They are tired of pleasing the image of the public lover, 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 helmsmen of the two bands, in their attitudes towards music and life, has gradually evolved internally, inspiring songs with different angles and styles.

In short, no band has ever made such an amazing leap and progress in artistic achievements in less than ten years. Sergeant Pepper is the most unified and perfect song collection in 1960s. The theme of this work, which combines blues, sour jazz, electronic music, Indian religious music and classical elements, is to make people think that they are just trying to distance themselves from the audience in entertainment and recreation under the guise of drama in the title, so that songs of various content forms can appear at will like clowns in the circus (this has been verified in the cover design of perhaps the most famous album in rock history).

This is an arbitrary album. Under the cover of deliberate self-alienation, the Beatles became unscrupulous and completely indulgent, allowing all kinds of feelings and concepts at both ends to combine or appear at the same time without controversy, perfectly combining the dark side and the bright side 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, their extremely rich and complex sound organization cannot rule out their best exploration and mastery of recording methods, and the gorgeous and flashy music effect seems to be creating an illusion of musical anesthesia. Among them, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds and A Day in My Life form a special type of image opposition in the whole album-fantasy and fact, aestheticism and ugliness: the former has "orange tree and jam-colored sky" and "kaleidoscope girl", while the latter tells the story of a person who is "crazy in the car", and the whole album is full of contradictions. The epic "A Day in Life" at the end of the album is a grotesque surrealist masterpiece, in which a large piece of pure noise language like stream of consciousness and music is embedded, and negative and extreme content is used to express the disgust of real life, which has been banned in many radio stations.

Under the influence of Harrison, 1968.2 The Beatles went to India with their family and friends to seek religious spiritual support, which was a failed trip-Maha Riski, the "saint" and "savior" they worshipped, was moved by a widow who went with the 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 Beatles' agent, died suddenly at home because of years of drug abuse, and the complex economic affairs of the band immediately fell into chaos, and the sales performance of Apple, which was in the same industry as the company, also declined, but the album White Album was still released under the banner of Apple at the price of 1968.438+05438+0.22. "White Album", a double album with a total length of 93 minutes 2 1 second, swept away all the immature elements in the Beatles' music in one fell swoop, while the content vaguely showed a more thoughtful and personalized expression in the background, which was close to the plain content in previous songs. At the same time, the differences in the artistic orientation of the band members appear fragmented in the album, although they have been trying to downplay this. But the album inserts are almost all personal photos, and it is rare to see photos of four people. This ominous sign makes some kind of doubt, betrayal and nostalgia for friendship vent despair and indifference in all songs-a lot of praise for drugs, propaganda for avoiding the world, and a strong interpretation of self-abandonment, such as I am so tired, blackbird, everyone is hiding something except me and my monkey; On the old topic of love, the Beatles also properly solved the above feelings, saving themselves and mocking themselves, but they were self-enclosed and pretentious-"So I sang a song about love for Julia" (Julia); Hippies are obviously angry and ask, "Why can't they do it on the road?" Why not do it on the road? Male chauvinism confusion and rage after breaking up in love "Sorry, don't make me tear you apart, you should have been a lover instead of a dancer" (Helter skelter); Use the redeeming power of love to reflect my extreme depression. "I want to commit suicide so much that I even hate my rock music. I hope to die alone. If I hadn't died before, girl, you know why. " Your melancholy.

Other things that must be mentioned are: the theme of the album deviation; 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 produce the double illusion of showing off and poor skills. The song with mixed reviews can be random music, ambient music and low-limit music, but it is undoubtedly Revolution 9 used in experiments. Looking back now, despite its implied liberation, it is actually the Beatles' completely relaxed, nonsense-like childish game and their freedom and indifference at the peak, just like many painting masters gave up color and modeling in their twilight years and only used carbon pens and lines to daub like urchins. In short, it is a tasteless but appetizing cocktail for most people. Lennon met Yoko Ono Lennon, a wave-free avant-garde artist six years older than him, at a post-modern art exhibition called "Unfinished Paintings and Articles". 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 was too involved in the Beatles' daily affairs and music creation, and the other members of the band never got used to it and became unbearable. When Lennon publicly declared in his solo album "John Lennon/Pastic Xiao Ye Band" that "in my eyes, it was just me, Yoko and me", everyone knew that the band could no longer exist, and it was meaningless.

After 68 years, all four members of the band except McCartney have long hair and sideburns, which can be regarded as the demand of Indian mysticism or their response to hippie costumes. In fact, they hope that through this savage appearance, people will no longer think that they are flashy pop cream students, that people will reposition them from the perspective of art and sociology, and that they will throw the band's ambition of constantly changing its musical style and deepening its consciousness to the public and be the last one in the band. 1970.6, McCartney was the first to declare independent development, and suggested to Lennon to dissolve the band through his lawyer. As for the last music of the band, we will remember Abbey Road and Happy Life, two vast and magnificent sad songs of life, which are full of cold and self-pity tears at the end of the hero's life, but more simple, modern, trendy, nostalgic and straightforward. While they are trying to keep the Beatles' style and continue their myth, the music shows a little reluctance-everyone is speculating that they will face the end, and the concept of the Beatles may have been erased from their hearts a year before the band broke up. They are more eager to keep their faith in their magical and glorious history. Their honest habits make each of their later songs hide the taste of self-mockery, while their hypocrisy and embarrassment make the main melody melody only for one player. A poem "Let it be", a ten-year legend, is a dream that ripples with the water. …………

It is difficult to find accurate language to define the position of the Beatles in contemporary rock and contemporary culture and their importance in the hearts of fans. The latter can be said to be the center of the altar of the largest and most magnificent church in the post-industrial cultural community. From 40 years ago to the end of mankind, it will always be the Garden of Eden in the souls of all teenagers who are eager for comfort, inspiration and love.

Members are as follows:

John Lennon, guitarist and lead singer.

Bassist and singer paul mccartney.

George harrison, guitarist and singer.

Ringo Starr-Drummer and Singer

catalogue

1 publishing list

1. 1 UK

1. 1. 1 EP

1. 1.2 CD

1. 1.3 photo album

1. 1.4 British CD /EP

1.2 USA

1.2. 1 EP

1.2.2 CD

1.2.3 photo album

1.3 video

2 external links

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List of publications

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Britain, England

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ultimate pressure

The Beatles's songs

1963 The Beatles (No.1)

All my love

Long Sally

1964 from the film A Hard Day's Night.

1964 from the album A Hard Day's Night.

1965 Beetle for sale

1965 Beatles for sale (second place)

Millions of sales in The Beatles

Yesterday 1966

1966 Nowhere.

1967 magic mystery tour

The Beatles

Baby, it's you.

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record

1962 My Bonnie/Saint

1962 "Love me"/"Attachment: I love you"

1963 "please me"/"ask me why"

1963 "from me to you"/"thank you girl"

1963 "She loves you"/"I will get you"

1963 "I want to hold your hand"/"This boy"

The Beatles's Christmas record.

1964 "You can't buy my love"/"You can't do that"

1964 "A hard night"/"What we said today"

1964 "I feel fine"/"She is a woman"

1964 another Beatles Christmas record

1965 "bus ticket"/"yes"

1965 "Help!" /"I fell down"

1965 "We can solve it"/"One-day tour"

The Beatles' third Christmas record

1966 "Paperback Writer"/"Rain"

1966 "Eleanor rigby"/"Yellow Submarine"

Mime: Christmas is everywhere.

1967 "Forever strawberry fields"/"Penny Lane"

1967 "All you need is love"/"Baby, you are a rich man"

1967 "Hello, goodbye"/"I'm a walrus"

1967 Christmas time (again)

1968 "Virgin Mary"/"Inner Light"

1968 "Hey Jude"/"Revolution"

1968 Christmas 1968

1969 "Stand back"/"Don't let me down"

1969 Ballad of John and Yoko/Old Brown Shoes

1969 "something"/"come together"

The Beatles' seventh Christmas record

1970 "Let nature take its course"/"You know my name (look up the number)"

1976 "Yesterday"/"I should have known"

1976 "Return to the Soviet Union"/"Twist and shout"

1978 "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"/"With the help of friends"/"A day in life"

1982 "Beatles Movie Highlights"/"I am very happy as long as I can dance with you"

1982 "love me"/"attachment: I love you" (reproduced)

1982 "Love me"/"Attachment: I love you"

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

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

1983 "She loves you"/"I will get you" (reproduced)

1983 "I want to hold your hand"/"This boy" (reproduced)

1984 "You can't buy my love"/"You can't do it" (reproduced)

1984 "A Hard Day's Night"/"What We Said Today" (reproduced)

1984 "I feel fine"/"She is a woman" (reproduced)

1985 "Bus ticket"/"That's it" (reproduced)

1985 "Help!" /"I am coming down" (reproduced)

1985 "We can solve it"/"One-day tour" (reproduced)

1986 Paperback Writer/Rain (reproduced)

1986 Eleanor rigby/Yellow Submarine (reprint)

1987 strawberry fields Forever/Penny Lane (reproduced)

1987 "All you need is love"/"Baby, you are a rich man" (reproduced)

1987 "Hello, Goodbye"/"I am a walrus" (reproduced)

1988 "The Virgin Mary"/"Inner Light" (reproduced)

1988 "Hey Jude"/"Revolution" (reproduced)

1989 "Come back"/"Don't let me down" (reproduced)

1989 Ballad of John and Yoko/Old Brown Shoes (reprint)

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

1990 "Let nature take its course"/"You know my name (look up the number)" (reproduced)

1995 "Free as a bird"/"Christmas time (again)"

1996 True Love/Baby in Black

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Big disc

Please let me do it.

1963 in The Beatles

A hard night of the day

1964 Beetle for sale

1965 help!

1965 rubber soul

1966 revolver

1966 Beatles' old songs

1967 sergeant pepper's lonely heart club band

1968 Beatles

1969 yellow submarine

Abbey Road 1969

No one can change our world.

1970 Let it go.

1970 from then on to you

The Beatles 1962-1966

The Beatles

1976 magic mystery tour

The Beatles of Hollywood amphitheater

Hello, Jude.

1980 Beetle Box

1988 past masters

1994 is broadcast live on BBC.

1995 anthology 1

1996 anthology 2

1996 anthology 3

1999 yellow submarine song track

2000 1

Let it go in 2003 ... naked

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British CD /EP

1989 "Love what I do"/"Attachment: I love you"

1989 "please me"/"ask me why"

1989 "from me to you"/"thank you girl"

1989 "She loves you"/"I will get you"

1989 "I want to hold your hand"/"This boy"

1989 "You can't buy my love"/"You can't do that"

1989 "A hard night"/"What we said today"

1989 "I feel fine"/"She is a woman"

1989 "bus ticket"/"yes"

1989 "Help!" /"I fell down"

1989 "We can solve it"/"One-day tour"

1989 "Paperback Writer"/"Rain"

1989 "Eleanor rigby"/"Yellow Submarine"

1989 "Forever strawberry fields"/"Penny Lane"

1989 "All you need is love"/"Baby, you are a rich man"

1989 "Hello, goodbye"/"I'm a walrus"

1989 "Virgin Mary"/"Inner Light"

1989 Hey Jude/Revolution

1989 "Stand back"/"Don't let me down"

1989 Ballad of John and Yoko/Old Brown Shoes

1989 "something"/"come together"

1989 "Let nature take its course"/"You know my name (look up the number)"

The Beatles's songs

1992 twist and shout.

1992 The Beatles (No.1)

All my love

1992 Long Sally

1992 from the film A Hard Day's Night.

1992 from the album A Hard Day's Night.

1992 Beetle for sale

1992 Beatles for sale (second place)

1992 The Beatles