Talking to a good friend last week, while driving the radio looking for good music these guys surfaced hairy: "He who does not like the Beatles, do not know music" - my friend said with emphasis. And somehow I felt it was right, not because I also like his music or feel the great musical scholar, but because these four guys were a milestone in his time. Following this, I present the first part of a brief overview of the beginnings of this popular band of rock'n roll. Introduction
The Beatles ... It's almost impossible to think of the psychedelic sixties and seventies without thinking hippies, flowers, peace, free sex, and of course the Beatles, without them , none of this existed.
Four young Englishmen moving crowds with their music, fashions imposed, made thousands of fans mourn.
1. The beginnings
In Liverpool, in 1956, met Paul McCartney and John Lennon for the first time. Paul was two years younger than John, but quickly joined the group because he had great skill with the guitar. Soon after, John Paul convinced that the group included his friend, George Harrison, who handled the guitar better than anyone.
The group formed called "The Quarrymen" and doing small gigs in churches and schools for little money and lots of drinks.
was in one of those performances where John met his first wife, Cynthia Powell, a school friend who saw him turn on the stage set out to conquer. John had a friend, Stuart Sutcliffe, who was an excellent painter. He gained 50 pounds in a competition, John convinced him to buy a bass and joined the group. Because he could not play the instrument, Paul was very annoyed because he wanted the group to be "professional."
The group, with its new drummer, Pete Best, changed its name to "Silver Beatles" in the end only ended up in "The Beatles". They got a contract for three months to travel to Hamburg. This experience helped refine his style, they came to play eight hours enduring fights drunks who frequented the places they played. In one of those fights, Stuart took a big hit in the head, two years later, would cause his death from a stroke.
traveled three times to Germany to perfect his estilo.Cuando returned to Liverpool as professional musicians were requested by the best local club, "The Cavern", a small, damp and full of smoke where they were the youth of the city. That's where Brian Epstein, who owns a record store, offered as a representative, which the Beatles agreed.
Your new manager will seek in vain for a recording contract. After many attempts got an audition for a future contract, where they sang songs like "Three Cool Cats" and "Besame Mucho" but were rebuffed.
finally got a pre-contract with record label EMI. George Martin, producer of the label, agreed to hear them ... and also liked it. Just put the condition that they change the drummer as well, with the help of Brian, got to Richard Starkey (the name change then by Ringo Starr), a very talented young city.
recorded "Love Me Do" and "PS, I Love You" which reached the number 17 on the charts. The Beatles were satisfied. would Shortly after the number 1 with "Please, Please Me." The fans grew. The Beatles gave their last performance in "The Cavern". The LP "Please Please Me" (1963) was recorded in one session of 12 hours ending with "Twist and Shout" and John's voice torn.
2. Beatlemania
The success of "Please, Please Me" gave them a success in Britain since late 1963, gave a concert at the London Palladium with the Royal Family. It was at this concert that John famously said: "This next song I want you all to join me. Those in the cheap seats to clap, others simply move their jewels." This was her first demonstration against the royal.
was followed by the album "The Beatles Whit" that included songs and "All My Loving" (my love) and "It Will not Be Long." In December 1963, five singles were in the top twenty and two albums occupying the top two spots in the rankings.
Fuessen where they were, they were harassed by masses of fans and yet so were all the rage in the U.S.. For this reason began to be broadcast on U.S. radio and before long, the single "I Want to Hold Your Hand" reached the top of the rankings. Upon learning of this new success toured the country. They appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show" where they reached the largest audience in history TV (73 million Americans were acting at the Beatles). They also offered concerts in Washington, Miami and Carnegie Hall in New York. Unfortunately, because of the cries and screams of the fans, the music was almost inaudible, very hard to hear.
The rest of the year was spent traveling. During one such trip, Ringo had to be replaced by Jimmy Nicol as they had to remove the tonsils. The weight of so many concerts and pressure from the fans made their next album, "Beatles for Sale," I only had eight original songs as they had more time to compose more. The rest of the LP was completed with other songs that used to play at the Cavern.
On this album you can see the exchange of letters, before love was all boy - girl, now, after Bob Dylan's induced in the world of marijuana, the Beatles (especially John ) started writing more serious songs like "I'ma Laser", with new harmonies and experienced in the studio with his new Four-track (four-track recorder). Perhaps this album is the weakest of the group, but has interesting songs.
3. Movie stars
'64 year was very important to the Beatles. No longer prevailed only in but music, anything to do, was considered a first world tour genialidad.La group finally convince everyone: public razed as diverse as Scandinavia, Australia, Hong Kong ...
Hounded by fans and the concerts, the edges were not enough to recover from one to another performance. Lots of whiskey and drugs kept them alert. His next course was the cinema. His first film was "A Hard Day Night." Black & White shot by Richard Lester included songs from the A side of the LP of the same title.
The film was a success. Won two Oscars for Best Screenplay and Best Score. She describes with humor tone of the life of Beatles concerts, his eventful life, opinions, etc. It was certainly the best film of the Beatles.
The album was no less brilliant because the songs were all original "Lennon - McCartney" and have wonders like the fantastic duet between John and Paul in "I Feel It", the rockin 'A hards days Night " , the acoustic ballad "I'll be back" ... well, one of the best LP's of all British.
Beatles For filmmaking was more than fun. John could buy a house of her aunt who had raised him, George met his future wife and Paul was inspired to write "Yesterday", the most recorded song in history, with over 2500 different versions.
4. Apogee , fans and Tours
In late 1964 the single "I feel fine" again thrill fans of the group. The riff that starts with the song was invented by John, and is the result of many musical experiments that made the band at Abbey Road.
In 1965 the Beatles decided to make another film, now in color. Called "Help" and its director was the same as "A Night hards days, also contained the songs from side A of the respective LP. This movie was like a parody of James Bond films, filmed in such exotic locales as the Bahamas or the ski slopes of Austria.
The LP "Help" is the best that brought the group, and the song "Help" is undoubtedly the favorite. That same year they performed at the Shea Stadium, a baseball field where they could be admired by some 60,000 people.
in 1965 also received the Queen Elizabeth the decoration "Members of the British Empire", which generally gave the military. This caused many of those who received this award for it back in protest. John said: "We won this for entertainment, not kill people, so far we deserve it."
At the end of that year set out to record their next album, "Rubber Soul", perhaps the best of his career. With the influence of marijuana songs like "The Word", "Nowhere Man", "In My Life" astonished the world, which might account for the increasingly philosophical content of the songs.
was such madness they reached the group tours, which even had to endure a lot of Filipinos, on tour in that country, who wanted to "devastating" for the president's wife, Imelda Marcos, took charge of his country against refuse to visit them as they were resting.
SOURCE: http://www.monografias.com/trabajos/beatles/beatles.shtml
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