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Whether you actually have listened to an album by The Beatles or not, you most likely have heard of The Beatles before and know that they are a really popular band. Before this unit, all I knew was that this rock band wrote "Hello, Goodbye" and that this band has been a group for 12 years, longer than One Direction. Sadly that's all I knew, but the significance of this memory is that I at least knew OF The Beatles. The Beatles were such an important part in the history of the rock and roll genre in the 1960s, and they still are of importance now in the 21st century. Besides being Liverpool's success, The Beatles brought back to America the music they lost following "The Day The Music Died" in 1959. Notable to mention, they brought it back with British accents and coconut hairstyles that the everyone could not get enough of.

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All the members of The Beatles lived in Liverpool, England. Before the formation of The Beatles, John Lennon formed a small band with some of his high school friends in 1957 and called themselves The Quarry Men. This band was a skiffle band, a popular genre in England that combined New Orleans jazz with American pop. They had their !st recorded label with a cover of Buddy Holly's song, "That'll Be The Day."

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In July in 1957, 15 year old Paul McCartney met the 16 year old John Lennon and he joined The Quarry Men as a rhythmic guitarist. Paul impresses Lennon with his performance of Eddie Cochran's "20 Flight Rock" from the film, "The Girl Can't Help It."

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4. George Harrison joins the Quarry Men?

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4. George Harrison joins the Quarry Men?

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In 1958, McCartney introduces Lennon to a young guitarist, George Harrison. After auditioning and showing immense skill, Lennon was still hesitant in letting Harrison join the band at such a young age. After persistence from both McCartney and Harrison and another audition, Harrison joined The Quarry Men as the lead guitarist.

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Some time following the addition of George Harrison in The Quarry Men, Lennon's friends left the group and only Harrison, McCartney, and Lennon were left. As their lives progressed, they tried to perform as much as possible and whenever they could find a drummer. Stuart Sutcliffe was a temporary bass player for the band. The Quarry Men changed their name multiple times from Silver Beetles, to Silver Beatles, and finally The Beatles. The name "The Beatles" was influenced by the idea of double meaning and Buddy Holly's band, "Buddy Holly and The Crickets."

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As said in the introduction, "The Beatles brought back to America the music they lost following "The Day The Music Died" in 1959." The rock band was influenced by all the rebellious rock, blues, and jazz songs of the 1940s and 50s. Artists like Chuck Berry, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley, Little Richard, and more helped The Beatles to form their sound to be bold, simple with complexity, catchy, and music to dance to. In the beginning of the band's career, they did not have a lot of their own songs so they sang covers of artist like Chuck Berry, 9 covers, and Elvis Presley, 4 covers, which definitely helped them develop a sounds that the audience liked and later would combine with their own original sound.

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The Beatles has their first extended stay gig in Hamburg, Germany in the early 1960s. Here they played 6 hour sets everyday at a place called the Indra Club and then later at Kaiserkeller. With these long sets, it was hard for the band to learn enough covers and their own songs to fill up the time. This time in the Beatles history is significant because playing together for long periods of time everyday helped the band become more of a well-rounded team. Their sounds became more tight and without this stay gig, I do not believe the Beatles would have become such a great well-rounded band.

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In 1961, still in Hamburg, Germany they met their soon-to-be manager Brian Epstein at the Cavern Club. Brian's family own a store that held a record section that Brian was the boss of. Brian was not totally into the music scene, but he knew business. He became the manager for the band and the first thing he did was change their appearance on stage to be more accepting by Americans and others. Kind of like how Elvis was forced to change his attire into a sleek black suit to become more accepting by American parents on the "Steve Allen Show" in 1956. With new matching suits, The Beatles got better gigs and higher profits with Brian as their new manager.

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With Brian as their manager, The Beatles began to look into the future f their band with signing into a company. Brian managed to get the rock band an audition with Capitol records, the American edition of EMI in England, but Capitol records surprisingly did not want the band. So, Brian took them to EMI, where their got signed and got partnered with the best producer in the UK, George Martin. George Martin was with the band for their entire career and brought their music to a whole new level. One of the major decisions George made for the band was that he complained about Pete Best's, the current drummer, playing and requested to issue in a studio drummer for the band. A man named Ringo Starr, from Rory Storm and The Hurricanes, met the Beatles while they were in Hamburg and became good friends with them. So, when the rock band needed a new drummer, they asked for Ringo Starr. In time, Ringo Starr became the summer of The Beatles in 1962.

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The Beatles in Liverpool were gaining a massive fan group throughout the years, leading to a new term called "Beatlemania." Mostly girls, the rock band's performances had such a massive audience, they couldn't hear anything they were playing and I'm sure the audience could not even hear what the band was singing. It got so bad all over the world that the Beatles only played performances for 3 years. The Beatles first two albums, "Please Please Me" and "With The Beatles," in 1963 were both massive successes, having a fresh sounds from the Bubblegum pop at the time and the lyrics were simple and mainly about romance. Besides the albums, the year of 1963 was a big breakthrough time for the band with many TV appearances, and performances with the Royal Family.

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At this point, the Beatles have only performed in Europe. With their high popularity, George Martin and Brain Epstein wanted The Beatles to go to America. The frightening thing about this is that no other British artist has "made it" in America. The boys only agreed to go to America if they got a #1 hit in the US. Fortunately, Capitol at this time agreed, since EMI is their sister company, it promote The Beatles songs in America. The next song released in 1963 was "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and it hit #1 on the American charts by February of 1964, conveniently around the time Epstein booked the Beatles on the "Ed Sullivan Show." It looks like the Beatles are heading to America!!

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The rock band arrived at the Kennedy Airport in New York in 1964. There were hundreds... thousands of fans at the airport, just to watch them walk!! The Beatles have not even performed yet in America and they were already a hit. As a book "What's That Sound?" by John Covach said, "The Beatles became the hottest act in the American entertainment business almost overnight." To take advantage of this popularity and to not take it for granted, the boys took up a vigorous tour and recording production schedule. They had more than 30 top 40 US hits between 1964-1966 and 12 of these hits were #1. "The result was one of the most impressive runs of hit records ever posted in popular music," (Covach). Their album, "Meet The Beatles" got #1 a week after their performance on the "Ed Sullivan Show" and it later got bumped by their next album. The Beatles popularity was not going down anytime soon.

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The Ed Sullivan Show is very significant in the Beatles timeline because it further embraced the idea that the rock band was an "overnight success." The show had a record breaking 73 million views, and even the crime rate in America went down during the airing of the show. It is absolutely crazy how much 4 British music boys have affected the world.

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The Beatles were once a random group of Quarry men in Liverpool that later grew into one of the most influential bands in music's history. They brought back the music America created and lost and helped us all go away from the industrialized music industry of Bubblegum pop. The Beatles brought back rock with a British twist to the world and also brought in an invasion of British artists into America in the 70s and beyond.