Little-known facts from the biography of the Beatles. The history of the British rock band The Beatles The Beatles who are alive

The Beatles made a great contribution to the development of rock music and became a striking phenomenon in the world culture of the sixties of the twentieth century. In this article, we will learn not only the history of the emergence of the Beatles.

The biography of each participant after the collapse of the legendary team will also be considered.

Beginning (1956-1960)

When did the Beatles form? The biography and work of the team have been of interest for several generations of fans. The history of the emergence of the group can begin with the formation of the musical tastes of the participants.

In the spring of 1956, the leader of the future star team, John Lennon, first heard one of Elvis Presley's songs. And this song, Heartbreak Hotel, turned the whole life of a young man upside down. Lennon played the banjo and harmonica, but new music made him take up the guitar.

The biography of the Beatles in Russian usually begins with the first group organized by Lennon. With school friends, he created the Quarryman team, named after their educational institution. The teenagers played skiffle, a form of amateur British rock and roll.

At one of the group's performances, Lennon met Paul McCartney, who surprised the guy with his knowledge of the chords of the latest songs and high musical development. And in the spring of 1958, George Harrison, Paul's friend, joined them. The Trinity became the backbone of the group. They were invited to play at parties and weddings, but it never came to real concerts.

Inspired by rock and roll pioneers Eddie Cochran and Buddy Holly, Paul and John decided to write their own songs and play the guitars. They wrote the texts together and gave them double authorship.

In 1959, a new member appeared in the group - Stuart Sutcliffe, a friend of Lennon. The line-up was almost formed: Sutcliffe (bass guitar), Harrison (lead guitar), McCartney (vocals, guitar, piano), Lennon (vocals, rhythm guitar). The only thing missing was a drummer.

Name

It is difficult to talk briefly about the Beatles group, even the history of the emergence of such a simple and short name of the group is captivating. When the team began to integrate into concert life hometown, they needed a new name, because they no longer had a relationship with the school. In addition, the group began to perform at various talent competitions.

For example, at the 1959 television competition, the team performed under the name Johnny and the Moondogs (“Johnny and the Moon Dogs”). A title The The Beatles appeared a few months later, in early 1960. Who exactly came up with it is unknown, most likely Sutcliffe and Lennon, who wanted to take a word that has several meanings.

When pronounced, the name sounds like beetles, that is, beetles. And when writing, the root of beat is visible - as beat music, a fashionable direction of rock and roll that arose in the 1960s. However, the promoters believed that this name was not catchy and too short, so the guys were called on the posters as Long John and The Silver Beetles ("Long John and the Silver Beetles").

Hamburg (1960-1962)

The skill of the musicians grew, but they remained just one of the many musical groups of their hometown. Biography of the Beatles summary which you started to read, continues with the move of the collective to Hamburg.

The fact that numerous Hamburg clubs needed English-speaking bands played into the hands of young musicians, and several teams from Liverpool proved themselves well. In the summer of 1960, the Beatles received an invitation to come to Hamburg. It was already serious work, so the quartet had to urgently look for a drummer. So Pete Best appeared in the group.

The first concert took place the next day after arrival. For several months, the musicians honed their skills in Hamburg clubs. They had to play music for a long time different styles and directions - rock and roll, blues, rhythm and blues, sing pop and folk songs. It can be said that largely thanks to the experience gained in Hamburg, the Beatles group took place. The biography of the team was experiencing its dawn.

In just two years, the Beatles gave about 800 concerts in Hamburg and raised their skills from amateurs to professionals. The Beatles did not perform their own songs, concentrating on the compositions of famous artists.

In Hamburg, the musicians met with students of the local art college. One of the students, Astrid Kircher, began dating Sutcliffe and became actively involved in the band's life. This girl offered the guys new hairstyles - hair combed over the forehead and ears, and later characteristic jackets without lapels and collars.

Returning to Liverpool, the Beatles were no longer amateurs, they became on a par with the most popular groups. It was then that they met Ringo Starr, the drummer for a rival band.

After returning to Hamburg, the first professional recording of the band took place. The musicians accompanied rock and roll singer Tony Sheridan. The quartet also recorded several of their own songs. This time their name was The Beat Brothers, not The Beatles.

The short biography of Sutcliffe continued with the exit from the team. At the end of the tour, he refused to return to Liverpool, choosing to stay with his girlfriend in Hamburg. A year later, Sutcliffe died of a cerebral hemorrhage.

First success (1962-1963)

The group returned to England and began to play in Liverpool clubs. On July 27, 1961, the first significant concert in the hall took place, which became a major success. In November, the group got a manager - Brian Epstein.

He met with George Martin, a major label producer, who showed interest in the band. He was not entirely satisfied with the demos, but young people fascinated him live. The first contract was signed.

However, both the producer and the band's manager were unhappy with Pete Best. They believed that he did not reach the general level, in addition, the musician refused to do his signature hairstyle, maintain the general style of the band, and often clashed with other members. Despite the fact that Best was popular with fans, it was decided to replace him. The drummer was replaced by Ringo Starr.

Ironically, it was with this drummer that the band recorded an amateur record at their own expense in Hamburg. Walking around the city, the guys met Ringo (Pete Best was not with them) and went to one of the street studios to record some songs just for fun.

In September 1962 the band recorded their first single, Love Me Do, which became very popular. The manager's cunning also played a big role here - Epstein bought ten thousand records at his own expense, which increased sales and aroused interest.

In October, the first television performance took place - the broadcast of one of the concerts in Manchester. Soon the second single Please Please Me was recorded, and in February 1963 the self-titled album was recorded in 13 hours, which included cover versions of popular songs and own compositions. In November of the same year, sales of the second album With The Beatles started.

Thus began the period of frenzied popularity that the Beatles experienced. Biography, Short story novice team, ended. The history of the legendary band begins.

The birthday of the term "Beatlemania" is considered to be October 13, 1963. In London, in the Palladium Hall, a concert of the group took place, which was broadcast throughout the country. But thousands of fans chose to gather around the concert hall hoping to see the musicians. The Beatles had to make their way to the car with the help of the police.

The height of "Beatlemania" (1963-1964)

In Britain, the quartet was wildly popular, but in America the group's singles were not published, since usually English groups did not have special success. The manager managed to sign a contract with a small firm, but the records were not noticed.

How did the Beatles get on the big American stage? The (short) biography of the band says that everything changed when a music critic of a well-known newspaper listened to the single I Want To Hold Your Hand, already very popular in England, and called the musicians " the greatest composers after Beethoven. The following month, the group was at the top of the charts.

"Beatlemania" stepped over the ocean. On the band's first visit to America, the musicians were greeted at the airport by several thousand fans. The Beatles gave 3 big concert and appeared on TV shows. All of America was watching them.

In March 1964, the quartet began creating a new album, A Hard Day "s Night, and a musical film of the same name. And the single Can't Buy Me Love / You Can't Do That, which appeared this month, set a world record for the number of pre-orders.

On August 19, 1964, a full-fledged tour of North America. The group gave 31 concerts in 24 cities. It was originally planned to visit 23 cities, but the owner of the basketball club from Casas City offered the musicians $150,000 for a half-hour concert (usually the ensemble received $25,000-30,000).

The tour was hard for the musicians. They were like in a prison, completely isolated from outside world. The places where the Beatles stayed were besieged around the clock by crowds of fans in the hope of seeing their idols.

The concert venues were huge, the equipment was of poor quality. The musicians did not hear each other and even themselves, they often got lost, but the audience did not hear this and practically did not see anything, since the stage was set very far for safety reasons. I had to perform according to a clear program, there was no question of any improvisation and experiments on stage.

Yesterday and Lost Recordings (1964-1965)

After returning to London, work began on the Beatles For Sale album, which included borrowed and own songs. A week after the publication, he soared to the top of the charts.

In July 1965, the second film, Help!, was released, followed by an album of the same name in August. It was this album that included the most famous song of the collective Yesterday, which became a classic of popular music. Today, more than two thousand interpretations of this composition are known.

The author of the famous melody was Paul McCartney. He composed the music at the beginning of the year, the words appeared later. He called the composition Scrambled Egg, because, composing it, he sang Scrambled egg, how I love a scrambled egg ... ("Scrambled eggs, how I love scrambled eggs"). The song was recorded to the accompaniment of a string quartet, with only Paul participating from the group members.

On the second American tour, which started in August, an event took place that still haunts music lovers around the world. What did the Beatles do? The biography briefly describes that the musicians visited Elvis Presley himself. The stars not only talked, but also played several songs together, which were recorded on a tape recorder.

The recordings were never released, and music agents from all over the world failed to locate them. The value of these recordings cannot be estimated today.

New Directions (1965-1966)

In 1965, many groups entered the big stage, which made a worthy competition to the Beatles. The band started to create a new album Rubber Soul. This record marked a new era in rock music. Elements of surrealism and mysticism, which the Beatles are known for, began to appear in the songs.

The biography (short) tells that at the same time scandals began to arise around the musicians. In July 1966, the band members refused an official reception, which caused a conflict with the first lady. Outraged by this fact, the Filipinos almost tore the musicians apart, they had to literally run away. The tour administrator was badly beaten, the quartet was pushed and almost pushed to the plane.

The second big scandal erupted when John Lennon said in one of his interviews that Christianity was dying and that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus today. Protests swept across the United States, the group's records were burned. The leader of the team, under pressure, apologized for his words.

Despite the troubles, in 1966 the album Revolver was released, one of best albums groups. His distinguishing feature in that the musical compositions were complex and did not involve live performance. The Beatles are now a studio band. Exhausted by the tour, the musicians gave up concert activities. In the same year, the last concerts were held. Music critics called the album brilliant and were sure that the quartet would no longer be able to create something as perfect.

However, in early 1967, the single Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane was recorded. The recording of this record lasted 129 days (compared with the 13-hour recording of the first album), the studio worked literally around the clock. The single was extremely complex musically and was a resounding success, being at the top of the charts for 88 weeks.

White Album (1967-1968)

In 1967, the performance of the Beatles was broadcast to the whole world. 400 million people could see it. A television version of the song All You Need Is Love was recorded. After this triumph, the team's affairs began to decline. The role in this was played by the death of the "fifth Beatle", the band's manager Brian Epstein, as a result of an overdose of sleeping pills. He was only 32. Epstein was an important member of the Beatles. The biography of the group after his death has undergone major changes.

For the first time, the band received the first negative reviews regarding the new Magical Mystery Tour movie. A lot of complaints were caused by the fact that the tape was released only in color, while most people had only black and white TVs. The soundtrack was released as an EP.

In 1968, she was responsible for the release of albums. Apple company, so announced the Beatles, whose biography continued. In January 1969, the Yellow Submarine cartoon and its soundtrack were released. In August - single Hey Jude, one of the best in the history of the group. And in 1968 the famous album The Beatles, better known as the white album, was released. It got its name because its cover was snow-white, with a simple imprint of the title. The fans received it well, but the critics no longer shared the enthusiasm.

This record marked the beginning of the group's breakup. Ringo Starr left the band for a while, several songs were recorded without him. The drums were played by McCartney. Harrison has been busy with solo work. The situation was also tense because of John Lennon's wife, Yoko Ono, who was constantly present in the studio and annoyed the band members in order.

Breakup (1969-1970)

At the beginning of 1969, the musicians had many plans. They were going to release an album, a film about their studio work, and a book. Paul McCartney wrote the song Get Back ("Come back"), which gave the name to the whole project. The Beatles, whose biography began so naturally, was approaching disintegration.

The band members wanted to show the atmosphere of fun and ease that reigned at the performances in Hamburg, but this did not work out. Many songs were recorded, but only five were selected, a lot of video material was filmed. The last recording was to be filming an impromptu concert on the rooftop of the recording studio. It was interrupted by the police, who were called locals. This concert was the last performance of the group.

On February 3, 1969, the team got a new manager, Allen Klein. McCartney was strongly opposed, as he believed that his future father-in-law, John Eastman, would be the best candidate for the role. Paul began legal proceedings against the rest of the group. Thus, the Beatles group, whose biography is described in this article, began to experience a serious conflict.

Work on an ambitious project was abandoned, but the group still released the Abbey Road album, which included George Harrison's brilliant composition Something. The musician worked on it for a long time, recorded about 40 ready-made options. The song is put on a par with Yesterday.

On January 8, 1970, the last album, Let It Be, was released, a reworking of material from the failed Get Back project by American producer Phil Spector. released May 20 documentary about the team, which had already broken up by the time of the premiere. Thus ended the biography of the Beatles. In Russian, the title of the film sounds like "Let it be so."

After the collapse. John Lennon

The era of the Beatles is over. The biography of the participants continues with solo projects. At the time of the breakup of the group, all members were already engaged independent work. In 1968, two years before the breakup, John Lennon released a joint album with his wife Yoko Ono. It was recorded in one night and at the same time contained not music, but a set of various sounds, noises, screams. On the cover, the couple appeared in the nude. Two more records of the same plan and a live recording followed in 1969. From the 70th to the 75th year, 4 were released music albums. After that, the musician stopped appearing in public, devoting himself to raising his son.

In 1980, Lennon's last album, Double Fantasy, was released and was well received by critics. A few weeks after the album's release, on December 8, 1980, John Lennon was shot several times in the back by Mark David Chapman. In 1984, the musician's posthumous album Milk and Honey was released.

After the collapse. Paul McCartney

After McCartney left the Beatles, the musician's biography took on a new twist. The break with the group took a heavy toll on McCartney. At first he retired to a remote farm, where he experienced depression, but in March 1970 he returned with material for a solo album by McCartney, and soon released a second - Ram.

However, without the group, Paul felt insecure. He organized the Wings team, which included his wife Linda. The group lasted until 1980 and released 7 albums. As part of his solo career, the musician has released 19 albums, the last of which was released in 2013.

After the collapse. George Harrison

George Harrison even before the breakup of the Beatles released 2 solo albums - Wonderwall Music in 1968 and Electronic Sound in 1969. These records were experimental and did not have much success. The third album, All Things Must Pass, included songs written during the Beatles period and rejected by other band members. This is the musician's most successful solo album.

Throughout his solo career, after Harrison left the Beatles, the musician's biography was enriched by 12 albums and more than 20 singles. He was actively involved in philanthropy and made a significant contribution to the popularization of Indian music and converted to Hinduism himself. Harrison died on November 29, 2001.

After the collapse. Ringo Star

Ringo's solo album, which he began working on as part of the Beatles, was released in 1970, but was declared a failure. However, in the future, he released more successful albums, largely due to his collaboration with George Harrison. In total, the musician has released 18 studio albums, as well as several live recordings and collections. The last album was released in 2015.

An excerpt from a 1963 concert:

Bruno Ceriotti (historian): “Today Rory Storm And The Hurricanes are performing at Cambridge Hall, Southport. Lineup: Al Caldwell (aka Rory Storm), Johnny Byrne (aka Johnny "Guitar"), Ty Brien, Walter "Wally" Eymond (aka Lou Walters), Richard Starkey (aka Ringo Starr).

From the diary of Johnny "Guitars" (Rory Storm and the Hurricanes band): "Southport. They played badly."

(conditional date)

Peter Frame: "When Stu Sutcliffe joined the band in January 1960, the first thing he did was to suggest changing the band's name to The Beatals, which would soon (April) be changed a bit."

approx. - it is believed that the name of the group "Beatles" appeared in April 1960. Most likely, from the words of Paul McCartney (Paul: "Once April evening 1960…”). According to thebeatleschronology.com, the name "The Beatals" was proposed by Stu Sutcliffe in January 1960 and was the original name of the group. He is mentioned by Paul McCartney in his letter to summer camp Butlins. It is possible that, speaking at the art college on Fridays in the first months of 1960, they did not have any official name at all.

From Paul McCartney's Flaming Pie interview:

Floor: For many years there was confusion about who came up with the name "The Beatles". George and I clearly remember that it was like this. John and some art school buddies rented an apartment. We were all clustered there on old mattresses - it was so great. Listened to Johnny Barnett's records, raged until the morning, as teenagers do. And then one day John, Stu, George and I were walking down the street, suddenly John and Stu say: “Hey, we have an idea how to name the group - the Beatles, through the letter “a” (if you follow the rules of grammar, "The Beetles" was supposed to be written.) George and I are surprised, and John says, "Yeah, Stu and I figured that out."

So this story is remembered to me and George. But over the years, some have begun to think that John himself came up with the idea for the name of the group, and as evidence they refer to the article "A Brief Digression on the Questionable Origins of the Beatles", which John wrote in the early 60s for the Mercybit newspaper. . There were such lines: “Once upon a time there were three little boys, their names were John, George and Paul ... Many people ask: what is the Beatles, why the Beatles, how did this name come about? It came from a vision. A man appeared on a flaming pie and told them: “From now on you are the Beatles with the letter “a”. Of course, there was no vision. John joked, in a goofy manner typical of the time. But some people didn't get the humor. Although, like, everything is so obvious.

George: “Where the name came from is debatable. John claims he made it up, but I remember talking to Stuart the night before. The Crickets, who played Buddy Holly, had a similar name, but in fact Stewart adored Marlon Brando, and in the movie The Wild One there is a scene in which Lee Marvin says: "Johnny, we were looking for you," bugs "miss for you, all the "bugs" miss you. Perhaps both John and Stu remembered it at the same time, and we left this name. We attribute it equally to Sutcliffe and Lennon."

Bill Harry: “I witnessed how John and Stuart [Sutcliffe] came up with the name The Beatles. I called them the college band because they didn't use the Quarryman name anymore and couldn't come up with a new one. They sat in the house where Lennon and Sutcliffe rented an apartment and tried to come up with a name, it turned out stupid names like "Moondogs". Stewart said, "We play a lot of Buddy Holly songs, why don't we name our band after Buddy Holly's Crickets." John replied: "Yes, let's remember the names of insects." Then the name "Beetles" appeared. And the name has become permanent since August 1960.

PAUL: John and Stewart came up with the name. They went to art school, and while George and I were still being forced to sleep by our parents, Stuart and John could do what we only dreamed of: stay up all night. Then they came up with the name.

One April evening in 1960, walking along Gambier Terrace near Liverpool Cathedral, John and Stewart announced: “We want to call the group The Beatles. We thought, “Hmm, sounds creepy, right? Something nasty and creepy, huh?” And then they explained that in this case the word has a double meaning, and it was wonderful ... - "It's okay, this word has two meanings." The name of one of our favorite bands, The Crickets, also has two meanings: playing cricket and also called little grasshoppers. This is great, we thought, this is real literary name. (We later talked to the Crickets and found out that they had no idea at all about the double meaning of their name).

Pauline Sutcliffe: "Stewart didn't like the band name Johnny and the Moondogs, which he thought was unoriginal. It seemed to him a kind of echo of such famous bands like "Cliff Richard and the Shadows", "Johnny and the Pirates".

Bill Harry: Stewart came up with the name Beetles because it was an insect, and he wanted to connect it with Buddy Holly's Crickets, because the Quarrymen ( approx. - or Johnny and the Moondogs, or both?) used many Holly numbers in her repertoire. That's what they told me at the time."

Paul: “I think Buddy Holly was my first idol. It's not that we just loved him. Many people loved him. Buddy has been a huge influence on us because of his chords. Because when we were learning to play the guitar, many of his songs were based on three chords, and we had learned these chords by that time. It's a big deal to hear a record and be like, "Hey, I can play that!" It was so inspiring. In addition, on the announced tour of Britain, Gene Vincent was supposed to perform with The Beat Boys. How about "The Beetles" (Beetles)?.

Pauline Sutcliffe: Stewart suggested a new name for the band. Buddy Holly had a band called the Crickets, and in the coming months Gene Vincent and the Beat Boys were due to arrive on a UK tour. Why don't they become Beetles? One of the biker gangs in [the movie] The Wild One was also called that. Stu was a big fan of Marlon Brando, a popular movie actor at the time. He watched films with his participation several times, but one film, “Wild”, especially sunk into his soul. The film, shown in Britain, was a resounding success, many wanted to be like the hero Brando, dressed in the skin of the leader of the motorbikers. They rode their motorcycles with a group of chicks and were known as The Beetles.

PAUL: "In the movie 'The Savage', when the character says, 'Even the Bugs miss you!' he points to the girls on the motorcycles. A friend once looked into the dictionary of American slang and found out that "bugs" are motorcyclists' girlfriends. Now think for yourself!"

Albert Goldman: New member group Stu Sutcliffe suggested the band a new name "Beetles" (Beetles) - that was the name of Marlon Brando's rivals in the romantic film about motorcyclists The Savage.

Dave Persails: In the second edition of The Beatles' autobiography, Hunter Davis said that Derek Taylor told him that the title was inspired by the movie Wild. The black leather motorcycle gang was called the Beetles. As Davis writes, “Stu Sutcliffe saw this movie, heard this remark, and when he got home, he suggested it to John as the new name for their band. John agreed, but said that the name would be spelled "Beatles" to emphasize that this is a beat group. Taylor repeated this story in his book.

Derek Taylor: "Stu Sutcliffe saw the then-famous movie" Wild "( approx. - the film premiered on December 30, 1953) and suggested the title immediately after the film. In the plot of the film there is a motorized gang of teenagers "Beetles". At the time, Stewart was imitating Marlon Brando. There has always been a lot of discussion about who came up with the name The Beatles. John claimed he came up with it. But if you watch the movie Wild, you'll see the scene with the motorcycle gang where Johnny's gang (played by Brando) is in the coffee bar and another gang led by Chino (Lee Marvin) rides into town, getting into a fight."

Dave Persails: "Indeed, in the film, Chino's character refers to his gang as the Bugs. In a 1975 radio interview, George Harrison agrees with this version of the origin of the name, and it is more than likely that he was the source of this version for Derek Taylor, who simply retold it.

George: "John would say in an American accent, 'Where are we headed, boys?' and we would say, 'To the top, Johnny! We said it for laughs, but it was actually Johnny, I guess, from the Wild One. Because when Lee Marvin pulls up with his biker gang, if I heard right, I could swear that when Marlon Brando talks to Lee Mervin, Lee Marvin talks to him, "Listen, Johnny, I think so-and-so," Beetles "think you're so-and-so..." as if his biker gang were called the Bugs.

Dave Persails: 'Bill Harry denies the 'Wild' version because he claims the film was banned in England until the late 1960s and none of the Beatles likely saw it at the time the name was coined.

Bill Harry: “The story of the film “Wild” is not credible. It was banned until the late 1960s and they couldn't see it. Their comments were made retroactively."

Dave Persails: "If that's the case, the Beatles must have at least heard of the movie (it was banned after all) and the storyline of the movie may have been known." , including the name of the biker gang. That possibility, in addition to what George said, makes it plausible."

Bill Harry: “They were also not familiar with the plot of the picture to such details as small dialogues or a vague title. Otherwise, I would have heard about it during my many conversations with them.

Dusty Springfield: John, a question that you have most likely been asked a thousand times already, but to which you always ... you all give different versions, answer in different ways, therefore, you will now answer it for me. How did the name "The Beatles" come about?

John A: I just made it up.

Dusty Springfield: Did you just make it up? Another brilliant Beatle!

John A: No, no, actually.

Dusty Springfield: Did you have any other name before that?

John: They were called, uh, "Quorrimen" ( approx. - John says the name "The Stonecutters" but not "Johnny and the Moondogs". Again, to the fact that both names were used at that time?).

Dusty Springfield: Ooo. You have a harsh personality.

From an interview with the Beatles:

John: When I was twelve years old, I had a vision. I saw a man on a flaming pie, and he said, “You are the Beatles with an [letter] “a”, and it happened.

From an interview in 1964:

George: John got the name "The Beatles" ...

John: In a vision when I was...

George A: A long time ago, you see, when we were looking, when we needed a name, and everyone came up with a name, and he came up with The Beatles.

From an interview with Bob Costas in November 1991:

Floor: We were asked, uh, someone asked, "How did the band come about?" And instead of saying, “The band started when these guys got together in Woolton City Hall at 19…”, John mumbled something along the lines of, “We had a vision. One person appeared before us on a bun, and we had a vision.

From an interview with Peter McCabe in August 1971:

John: I used to write so-called Beatcomber notes. I used to admire the Beachcomber approx. — Beachcomber is in the [Daily] Express, and every week I wrote a column called Beatcomber. And when I was asked to write a story about the Beatles, it was when I was at Alan Williams' Jacaranda club. I wrote with George "the man who appeared on the flaming pie ...", because even then they were asking: "Where did the name "Beatles" come from"? Bill Harry said, "Look, they ask you about it all the time, so why don't you tell them how the name came about?" So I wrote: "There was one person, and he appeared ...". I used to do this back in school, all this imitation of the Bible: “And he appeared and said:“ You are the Beatles with [letter] “a” ... and a man appeared from the sky on a flaming cake, and said, you are the Beatles. with "a".

Bill Harry: “I asked John to write a story about the Beatles for Mercy Beat, and I printed it in early 1961, which is where this flaming pie story came from. John had nothing to do with the title of the column. I liked "Beechcomber" in the Daily Express and I gave it the name "Beatcomber" for his column. I also came up with the title "The Dubious Origins of the Beatles as Recited by John Lennon" for this article in the first issue.

From an interview in The New York Times, May 1997, regarding the title of the album's title track "Flaming Pie":

Floor: Anyone who hears the words "flaming cake" or "to me" (unto me) knows that this is a joke. There is much more that remains fiction due to compromise. If not everyone agrees with the story, someone has to give up. Yoko kind of insists that John has every right to the name. She believes that he had a vision. And it still leaves us with a bad taste in our mouths. Therefore, when I was choosing a rhyme for the words “cry” (cry) and “sky” (sky), [the word] “pie” (pie) came to mind. "Flaming Pie" Wow!

Pauline Sutcliffe: “Stu's offer was accepted by John, but since he was the founder and leader of the group, he had to contribute to this cause. And although John loved and respected Stu, it was fundamental for him that the final word was his. John suggested replacing one of the letters. Ultimately, brainstorming with John led to a modified Beatles (The Beatles, you know, like in beat music).

Cynthia: "To match your changing stage image, they decided to change the band's name as well. We had a stormy brainstorm around a beer-stained table in a bar called Renshaw Hall, where we often popped in for a drink.”

PAUL: "Thinking about the name 'Crickets', John wondered if there were any other insects to take advantage of their name and play with it. Stew suggested first "The Beetles" ("Beetles"), and then "Beatals" (from the word "beat" - rhythm, beat). At that time, the term "beat" meant not just a rhythm, but a certain trend in the late fifties, musical style based on rhythmic, hard rock and roll. Also, the term was a reminiscence to the then thundering movement of the “beatniks”, which eventually led to the emergence of such terms as “big beat” and “mercy beat”. Lennon, who was always averse to punning, turned it into "Beatles" (a combination of those words) "just for fun, so that the word would be related to beat music."

Floor: John came up with it [name] mostly just as a name, just for the band, you know. We just didn't have a name. Er, well, yes, we had a name, but we had about a dozen a week, you see, and we didn't like it, so we had to settle for one particular name. And one night John came over with the Beatles and he kind of explained that it should be spelled with an 'e-a' and we said, 'Oh yeah, that's hilarious!'

From an interview in 1964:

Interviewer: Why "Bee" (B-e-a), instead of "Bee" (B-e-e)?

George: Well, of course, you see ...

John: Well, you know, if you leave it with a "B", a double "ee"... It was hard enough to get people to understand why it was a "B", never mind, you know.

Ringo: John came up with the name "The Beatles" and he's going to tell you about it now.

John: It just means The Beatles, doesn't it? Do you understand? It's just a name, like "shoe," for example.

Floor: "Shoe". You see, we could not be called "Shoe".

From a telephone interview in February 1964:

George: We've been thinking about a name for a long time, and we just brainwashed ourselves with different names, and then John came along with this name "The Beatles", which was great, because in a way it was about an insect, and also a pun, you know , "b-and-t" to "bit". We just liked the name and we accepted it.

John: Well, I remember, the other day someone at a press conference mentioned the [group] "Crickets" (Crickets). It slipped from my mind. I was looking for a name similar to "Crickets", which has two meanings ( approx. - the word "rickets" has two meanings, "crickets" and the game "Crocket"), and from "crickets" I came to "beaters" (Beatles). I changed it to "Bee" (B-e-a) because it [word] did not have a double meaning - [word] "beetles" (beetles) - " B-double i-t-l-z" has no double meaning. So I changed to "a", added "e" to "a", and then it began to have a double meaning.

Jim Stack: What are the two meanings, to be specific.

John: I mean, it doesn't mean two things, but it indicates... It's "beat" (beat) and "beetles" (beetles - bugs), and when you say it, something creepy comes to mind, and when you read it, it's beat music.

From an interview with Red Beard, KT-Ex-Q, Dallas, April 1990:

Floor: When we first heard [the band] Crickets... Going back to England, there's a cricket game there, and we knew about the cheerful, returning cricket Hoppity ( approx. - 1941 cartoon). So we thought it was going to be brilliant, a really amazing title with double meanings, like the style of the game and the bug. We thought it would be brilliant, we decided, well, we'll take it. So John and Stewart came up with this name that the rest of us hated, with the Beatles, which is spelled with an "a". We asked: "Why?" They said, "Well, you know, it's bugs, and it's double meaning, like Crickets." Many things influenced us, different spheres.

Cynthia: "John loved Buddy Holly and the Crickets, so he suggested playing with insect names. It was John who came up with the Beetles. He made “Beatles” out of them, drawing attention to the fact that if you swap the syllables, you get “les beat”, and this sounds in the French manner - elegant and witty. In the end, they settled on the name "Silver Beatles" (Silver Beatles).

John: “And so I came up with: beetles (beetles), only we will write differently: “beatles” (Beatles is a “hybrid” of two words: beetle- beetle and to beat- hit) to hint at a connection with beat music - such a playful play on words.

Pauline Sutcliffe: “And after brainstorming with John, The Beatles were born – you know, like in beat (beat) music?”

Hunter Davis: "So while John came up with the final name, it was Stu who gave birth to the sound combination of the band's name that became the basis of the band's name."

Pauline Sutcliffe: “Without a doubt, if Stu and John had not met one day, the group would not have had the name The Beatles.

Royston Ellis (British poet and novelist): “When I suggested to John that they come to London in July, I asked what the name of their group was. When he said it, I asked him to write the title. He explained that they got the idea from the name of the car "Volswagen" (beetle). I said that they have a “Beat” [Beat] lifestyle, “Beat” music, that they support me as a beat poet, and I wondered why they don’t write their name with an “A”? I don't know why John is considered to have adopted this spelling, but it was I who inspired him to stop there. His oft-quoted story about the title mentions "a man on a flaming pie". This is a playful reference to the night I made a frozen chicken and mushroom pie for dinner for the guys (and girls) in that apartment. And I managed to burn it."

Pete Shotton: “Having completed my training, I finally, for a plausible alternative, allowed myself to be persuaded to join the police. To my dismay, I was immediately sent on patrol (where do you think?!) in Garston, the site of the "Bloodbaths"! Moreover, I was also assigned to night shift, while my weapon was a traditional whistle, and a flashlight - and with this I had to defend myself from the wild animals of those infamous vile streets! I was not even twenty at the time, and walking around my precinct, I experienced incredible fear, so it is not surprising that after a year and a half I quit the police.

During this period, I had relatively little contact with John, who in turn was new life with Stuart and Cynthia. Our meetings became more frequent after I became a partner in the owner of the Old Dutch Café, a more or less respectable hangout near Penny Lane. The Old Woman was one of the few establishments in Liverpool that didn't close until late at night, and for a long time served as a convenient meeting place for John, Paul, and all our old friends.

John and Paul often stayed there at night after the band played, and then boarded their buses at the Penny Lane terminus. By the time I started working at the Old Woman on the night shift, they had already adopted black leather jackets and pants as their uniform (? approx. — most likely, Pete eventually forgot that the "skin" appeared after Hamburg) and baptized himself into the Beatles.

When I asked about the origin of this strange name, John said that he and Stuart were looking for something zoological, like Phil Spector's Cubs and Buddy Holly's Crickets. Having tried and discarded options like "Lions", "Tigers", etc. they chose the Beetles. The idea of ​​naming his band such a low form of life appealed to John's twisted sense of humor.

But despite the new name and clothing, the prospects for the Beatles, and John in particular, looked bleak to say the least. By 1960, Merseyside was literally teeming with hundreds of rock 'n' roll bands, and some of them, like Rory Storm and the Hurricanes or Jerry and the Pacemakers, had far more fans than the Beatles, who didn't yet have permanent drummer. In addition, in Liverpool, which occupied a rather modest place among other cities, even Rory and Jerry did not have the desire to achieve primacy in rock and roll as an end in itself. However, John had already convinced himself that sooner or later the whole country, if not the whole world, would learn to pronounce the word "beetles" with the letter "a".

Len Harry: “One day they were talking about renaming the band to The Beatles, and I thought what a strange name. You immediately remember some crawling creatures. It had nothing to do with music for me."

Peter Frame: Since January, the band has been performing under the name Beatals. From May to June under the name Silver Beetles, from June to July under the name Silver Beatles. Since August, the band has been called simply The Beatles.

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Absolutely everyone has heard about the Beatles, even if only a brief summary. This team of 4 guys has become so firmly merged into the history of mankind that it still provides food for research for everyone who cares about music, be it a music lover or a critic.

The magnitude of popularity, which still makes itself felt today, a deep love for creativity, is really difficult to explain, but the fact remains that in the sixties the four turned the whole world upside down.

How it all began

For almost twenty years, the Beatles were considered the standard of musicians. The Beatles spawned huge wave imitations - both among ordinary fans and among other teams. The band's music inspired entire generations. It is she who is responsible for the fact that the movement for peace, for love and freedom actively flourished in Europe.

It is impossible to fully appreciate the importance The Beatles played in the culture of mankind, and it is unlikely that at least one of the team fully understood where the joint work would lead.

Liverpool, the city that was home to the founders of the team, was in fact for the musicians of England interesting place. It was here that fresh ideas were brewed, which inspired Paul and John to study music.

In 1957, Paul McCartney met Lennon for the first time. John was already considered the leader of the Quarrymen, even though he was only seventeen. The style of creativity belonged to the British version of rock and roll - skiffle. McCartney charmed a new acquaintance, because he turned out to be a multi-instrumentalist - trumpet, piano and guitar, and besides, he was oriented in the chords and lyrics of all greatest hits that time. But besides that, Paul showed John the first compositions, and John also wanted to create his own songs. The competitive spirit made them both work hard. They became close later as a result of tragic events - the death of their mothers.

In less than a few months, they not only played together, but also took to the stage. Helped them in this Harrison, George was a close friend of Paul. A little later, Stuart Sutcliffe, who studied with Harrison at the same college, joined the team that had just appeared.

It should be noted that the parents practically did not know what their sons were doing. They were really convinced that they wanted to get a working specialty. However, all the members of the four were too passionate about the musical theme. Only Harrison's mother was warm to their studies.

What would you name the boat

A number of successful performances led the musicians to the idea that it was time to choose a suitable name. The ambitions of all members of the team were great, and even though it was difficult to call all their appearances on stage concerts, and no one would offer to record their music, they were still full of enthusiasm.

To do this, I had to join the Liverpool club life. Speaking under the name Quarrymen, they tried their hand at creative competitions over and over again, but nothing like success came of it. As a result, we had to think about which version of the name would better describe their approach to creativity.

Reflections led to The Beatles, and today there are disputes about how it appeared. Members of the team have repeatedly mentioned that the name was invented by Stuart and John. It occurred to them to create a name with a double meaning. Taking off from beetles, they changed the letter to make a reference to beat, because this particular style of music was especially popular.

Whether the name was responsible for the fact that the Beatles were noticed among others, no one can say for sure, but young people really began to be approached for performances.

The 1960s had barely begun when the group was called on a brief tour of the cities of Scotland, and this became the starting point that helped to rise above the numerous bands that performed similar music in Liverpool. The team was supposed to work on the same stage with Johnny Gentle, a popular singer at that time.

Unfortunately, the Scottish tour brought not only positive impressions. During the concerts, the team quarreled with the manager, did not receive payment on time. They returned to their hometown earlier than expected by the agreement. The drummer, who received a concussion on the tour, left the team.

big start

From the summer of 1960 The Beatles received an invitation to a concert in Hamburg. For all the members of the Beatles, this was a great chance to showcase themselves outside home country, to reach Europe, as they would say today. The most curious thing is that in fact such a choice was quite strange. The group did not have a permanent drummer, which made it difficult to work, and she was not particularly known to anyone. However, it so happened that at that time the more popular bands could not go on a long tour, and Allan Williams managed to push the beginners forward. Before the tour, a long search for a drummer led Pete Best to the team - almost by accident.

Of course, it was not without difficulties - the tour to Germany was a big test. For almost seven months abroad, the Beatles performed at the Indra and Kaiserkeller clubs. The schedule of concerts turned out to be very busy, because the concerts then went on without stops, and in no case was it possible to lose face. Leaving their own compositions for a more convenient occasion, the team hit on the performance of variations, improvisations and arrangements.

It was impossible to relax. The Beatles played blues, processed folk songs, performed blues, rock and roll, selected and sang pop songs. It turned out to be a good experience: in the seven months of the tour, the skill has grown noticeably.

The return of the team was also appreciated in familiar clubs. The Beatles sounded different.

However, not only this trace was left by the first tour in the history of the team. Stuart Sutcliffe met and started a relationship with Astrid Kirchherr. She owns a photo shoot in the Hamburg Park. And it was she who suggested that the team choose a new image.

Stylish new hairstyles and neat jackets without collars and lapels from Cardin have become an updated image of the team. We can assume that the German girl acted as an image maker.

Epstein era

Back in Liverpool, the team began playing regularly at the Cavern. More experienced musicians quickly moved forward, and the city became known quite widely. However, they also had competitors, such as Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. Ringo Starr sat on drums in this very popular group at that time.

Everyone managed to get acquainted with the Beatles team on the same German tour. With these guys, they jointly recorded a record - playing along as session players. However, in the end it was a fateful event.

By the way, remembering in Hamburg, the Beatles went there for the second time in 1961. This time the tour took three months. Germany gave the band the opportunity to record in the studio for the first time, as they performed with Tony Sheridan. On the record, the band was referred to as The Beat Brothers.

In Cavern, the team was noticed by Brian Epstein, who worked in one of the record stores. He was so enthusiastic that he began negotiations with record companies, but received many rejections, until finally Parlophone decided to sign a contract with a group that few had heard of.

George Martin, who was the studio's producer, said it wasn't the quality of the music or the craftsmanship that attracted him. "The Beatles" took wit, openness and even a little arrogance. They so fascinated Martin that he opened the way for them to Abbey Road, the famous London studio.

By mid-autumn 1962, Love Me Do appeared. No one can say whether the single would have sold worse if Epstein had not personally bought 10,000 records, which caused a buzz around rising stars.

This brought the team to TV screens, and, of course, the number of fans began to grow at an unprecedented rate. Now singles appeared, concerts were organized, and yet the first album saw the light of day. This was also a wonderful event: Please Please Me rose to the top of the national charts and did not leave the top lines for six months.

We can say that in 1963 a new phenomenon appeared - Beatlemania.

The next record, called With The Beatles, appeared a little later and brought a new record. Only pre-orders for this album collected 300 thousand. Over a million records were sold within a year!

Greatest Composers

Great Britain adored the four, but in America no one has yet heard of it. The hit re-releases that Epstein tried to negotiate didn't happen. However, when I Want To Hold Your Hand was recorded, Richard Buckle spoke about it in the very popular The Sunday Times. Speaking about the work of musicians, he expressed the opinion that the names of McCartney, Lennon will rise in the history of music immediately after the name of Beethoven. Such praise aroused interest, and so the songs of the Beatles sounded in the United States.

Not much time passed, as the first five compositions of the national hit parade of America belonged to them.

Albums continued to be recorded, and the team even made films. When Help! appeared, the whole world unanimously recognized Yesterday as the most magnificent composition. Covers sounded from all over, and today there are at least two thousand variations.

Studio work

In 1965, rock 'n' roll experienced a renaissance and turned from entertainment music into something new. The Beatles led the wave with Rubber Soul. A year later, they released Revolver, which had so many effects that it would have been impossible to perform the compositions live.

So the tour went into the background, and the team began to work seriously in the studios. In 1966 the recording of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, which lasted almost 130 days.

This album is still considered the evolution of the genre, a musical triumph. However, things got worse after that.

Epstein died of an overdose of sleeping pills in 1967.

White Album today is called the first signal of the breakup of the team.

Unfortunately, at that time tension was growing in the group, the music was not created jointly, but became a reason for competition among themselves. In addition, John had Yoko, and the other members of the team did not like her at all.

Sunset

Lennon had a new project, although he was still listed as part of The Beatles, McCartney hit solo work. By mid-1969, there was no co-creation, but the fans seemed to be unaware of such an unpleasant situation.

When in 1970 McCartney announced that he was leaving the project, everyone was shocked. However, the team broke up safely - each musician found his own path.

Fans dreamed of a reunion, but Lennon died in 1980, and it became clear that the era of The Beatles had gone unconditionally, which did not affect the scale of popularity at all. And today the band's albums are listened to and known everywhere.

Some facts

Great Britain in 1965 awarded all members of the team with the Order of the British Empire.

Popular magazine among music lovers Rolling Stone called the Beatles the greatest performers of all time. The first place among the five hundred best albums was taken by the album of the Beatles.

The performance of The Beatles, which took place in 1967, was watched by 400,000,000 spectators. It was shown in Our World. It was there that All You Need Is Love received a video version.

1969: an unusual format at that time appeared - Yellow Submarine, a full-length cartoon. Many songs sounded in it, especially Hey Jude, which Lennon dedicated to his son Julian, was remembered by everyone.

Ringo and Paul can please fans with new music even today.

If in the second question under " the best group of all time" to be understood as "the most successful group of all time", then such a statement can be explained by quantitative indicators and various regalia. In less than 10 years of the band's existence, they recorded 12 studio albums (or 13 - depending on what counts as an album) - more than 200!!! songs; The Beatles have received 26 Grammy nominations, winning 10, on the list the greatest performers of all time in Rolling Stone magazine, the Beatles take the honorable 1st place; the members of the group were awarded the Order of the British Empire (received a knighthood from the Queen of Britain) "for their outstanding contribution to the prosperity of Great Britain"; finally, the Beatles got into the Guinness Book of Records as the best-selling group in the world - already in the early 2000s, more than a billion discs and cassettes associated with the name of the group were sold.

It is not easy to give a definite answer to the first question. But it becomes obvious that popular music cannot be fully described solely in musical, aesthetic terms. Of course, the group's success is largely due to the remarkable talent of the band members - John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, their diligence, full dedication to their beloved music, willingness to change, bring new elements to their own work. But all this, in fact, cannot characterize the uniqueness of the Beatles in any way - in Liverpool alone in the late 50s and 60s there were many talented, hardworking, innovative bands. Here it is worth mentioning the features of the musical environment of the city. It's no secret to anyone that british rock- This is American youth pop music instilled with traditional British motifs. However, to describe the sound of Liverpool teams, the term Liverpool Sound (“Liverpool sound”) is used. Liverpool - was a major port city, which from all over the world flocked not only products of production, but also songs, music (for example, Jamaican, Indian, African). A variety of diasporas, and simply arriving merchants and sailors, formed a special breeding ground in this city of thousands of music clubs, not limited to American pop and British music. folk music. It was in this environment that the Beatles brewed, although again, not only them.

Further, an important role in the success of the group was played by the awareness of the participants of the need to professionalize their activities. The invitation of Brian Epstein, the owner of a record store, to the role of band manager was one of turning points group history. He bought the Beatles' plastics at his own peril and risk, so that they would rise in the ratings, streamline the group's performance schedules, draw up performance programs, and work on the Beatles' stage image. Here we move on to another important component of success - the stage image. Regardless of who came up with the recognizable image of the group (it was claimed different people related to the group) - mop-top haircut, conservative black suits with collarless jackets (sometimes such jackets are called "beats"), "decent" behavior on stage. For stiff England, where the attitude to music is often determined by the moral and moralizing evaluation of musicians (for example, the tour of the young, and later great, rock'n'roller Jerry Lee Lewis in Britain was disrupted due to his inappropriate behavior), the Beatles received an incredible advantageous label "good-boys", as opposed to bad guys from Rolling Stones, and sexually promiscuous strangers from the States. However, professionalization and imagery have been important elements of popular music since the 1930s, and there is nothing uniquely Beatles about it either.

Another aspect to consider when talking about the Beatles is finding the perfect sound and experimenting with sound and recording. George Martin - the fifth Beatle - the producer and sound engineer of the group, played a huge role here (although the participants themselves embarked on experiments with great interest, it is enough to point out George Harrison's flirting with oriental motifs in the second half of the 60s). Martin, brilliantly versed in music, made it possible to embody many of the bold ideas of the band members, and the embodiment is almost perfect in form (for example, the “symphonic” side of “Yellow Submarine” or the unity of “Strawberry Fields Forever”, composed of parts of different tempo and tonality ).

Finally, speaking of the worldwide popularity of the Beatles and the phenomenon of Beatlemania, which began with the appearance on the Ed Sullivan show, it is worth bearing in mind some of the historical circumstances that set the stage for the very possibility of success for British music in the United States. So, in the second half of the 50s, almost all the leading American pop musicians disappeared from the scene: in 1959 Buddy Holly died in a car accident, and Chuck Berry was sentenced to 5 years in prison, a year earlier Elvis went to the army, Little Richard retired from music to become a preacher in 1957, Jerry Lee Lewis was stonewalled for marrying an underage great-niece (the late 1950s is sometimes referred to, after Don McLean's song "American Pie", "the time the music died") . Actually, this vacuum in the youth popular music market was filled by the new British rock music, which was later called the "British Invasion". Although the Beatles were the first British group, which reached the top of the American charts, they were not the only ones.

Thus, all these reasons - the environment, talent, diligence, dedication, professionalism, experimentation, attention to the image of the group and performance, favorable market conditions, multiplied by the unique charisma and personal charm of McCartney and Lennon - it is important to consider when talking about uniqueness and group success. We can say that these are necessary elements of the greatness of the Beatles, but not enough: many groups could even surpass the Beatles in some ways, but did not achieve such fame or such commercial success. In this sense, the uniqueness of the Beatles lies in the fact that it is impossible to give an exhaustive explanation of this uniqueness. But it's so easy to enjoy their music.

The Beatles are a symbol of modern pop culture and the music industry, perhaps even more significant than such musical "monsters" as Elvis Presley, The Rolling Stones, Madonna and Michael Jackson. And The Beatles - the best-selling music brand in history (more than 1 billion records sold worldwide) - forever changed the music world.

1. John Lennon originally named the group differently

John Lennon founded the group in 1957 and named it the Quarry Men. Later, he invited Paul McCartney to the group, who brought in George Harrison. Ringo Starr became the last of the "big four" after he replaced Peter Best as drummer.

2. Quarry Men, Johnny and the Moondogs...

The band changed its name many times before settling on the name
The Beatles. In addition to the Quarry Men, the group also went by the names Johnny and the Moondogs, Rainbows and British Everly Brothers.

3. "Beetles" (beetlles) and "Rhythm" (beat)

Although no one can say exactly where the group's final name came from, most fans believe that John Lennon suggested the name after Buddy Holly's American Crickets. Other sources emphasize that the name deliberately combined 2 words - "bugs" (beetlles) and "rhythm" (beat).

4. "From Me To You"

The Beatles called their first UK single "From Me To You", taking the idea from the letters section of the British magazine NME, then called "From You to Us". They wrote this song on a bus while on tour supporting Helen Shapiro.

5. There was nothing before Elvis

John Lennon was very fond of cats. He had ten pets when he lived in Weybridge with his first wife, Cynthia. His mother had a cat named Elvis as the woman was a big fan of Elvis Presley. Not surprisingly, Lennon later claimed that "there was nothing before Elvis."

6 Abbey Road

The band originally wanted to name the song "Abbey Road" "Everest". But when their record company invited the band to visit the Himalayas to shoot a video there, the Beatles decided to rename the song after the street where the recording studio was located.

7. Hit for the main competitors

Very few people know the fact that John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote the first hit for their main rivals, the Rolling Stones. "I Wanna Be Your Man" was released in 1963 and peaked at number twelfth on the UK Singles Chart.

8. Good Morning Good Morning

John Lennon wrote "Good Morning Good Morning" after being infuriated by a Kellogg cereal commercial.

9 Billboard Hot Record Breakers

During the week of April 4, 1964, as many as twelve Beatles songs entered the top 100. Billboard singles Hot, including the compositions of this group, occupied the first five lines. This record has not been broken so far, for fifty-two years.

10. The Beatles sold 178 million records.

According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the Beatles have sold 178 million records in the United States. That's more than any other artist in US music history.

11. "Got to Get You into My Life"

1966 the song "Got to Get You into My Life" appeared. It was originally thought to be about a girl, but McCartney later claimed in an interview that the song was actually about marijuana.

12. Hey Jude

If you listen carefully to the words of the legendary song "Hey Jude", you can hear how Paul swore dirty, making a mistake during the recording of the song.

13. "New Disease"

Many people mistakenly believe that the term "Beatlemania" first appeared in 1963 after a review in the Daily Mirror. However, the term was actually invented by Canadian Sandy Gardiner and first appeared in the Ottawa Journal in November 1963, where the word was used to describe a "new disease" that was sweeping the globe.

14. ... well, if they themselves ask

Mae West initially turned down an offer to have her picture on the album cover of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", but she changed her mind after receiving a private letter from the band. Other famous women on the cover are Marilyn Monroe and Shirley Temple.

15. "Something" is the greatest love song

Frank Sinatra has often publicly expressed his admiration for the band, and once said that "Something" is the greatest love song ever written.

16. Help! and "Strawberry Fields Forever"

John Lennon said that the only real songs he ever wrote were "Help!" and "Strawberry Fields Forever". He claimed that these were the only songs he wrote based on his own experiences and not just imagining himself in certain situations.

17. Beatles Records Publicly Burned in the South

In March 1966, John Lennon noticed that Christianity was in decline and that the Beatles had become more popular than Jesus. His remarks led to protests in the American South, where the band's records were publicly burned. The protests have even spread to other countries such as Mexico, South Africa and Spain.

18. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988. All four of its members were also inducted into the hall of fame individually from 1994 to 2015.

19. The Beatles hold the record for hits...

As of 2016, the Beatles still hold the record for most hits (20) to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Elvis Presley and Mariah Carey are tied for second with 18 songs each. The Beatles also hold the record for the most number one albums in the US and UK.

20. Unfulfilled dream

The members of The Beatles were so passionate about Tolkien's work that they wanted to star in the film "The Lord of the Rings", where the director was supposed to be Stanley Kubrick. Fortunately, Kubrick and his record company did not find this idea attractive, and a few decades later, Peter Jackson created his famous cinematic masterpieces.

21. The Beatles broke up because of...

No one knows 100 percent why the Beatles broke up. When Paul McCartney was asked why the band broke up, he claimed it was due to "personal differences, business differences, musical differences, but most of all, he enjoys spending time with his family much more".

22. Missed Opportunity

The closest the band came to a reunion after their split in 1970 was at Eric Clapton's wedding when he married Patti Boyd in 1979. George Harrison, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr played together at the wedding, but John Lennon did not come.

23. Bands with guitars are out of fashion.

The Beatles auditioned for Decca Records on January 1, 1962, but were turned down because "groups with guitars are out of style" and also because "the band members lack talent". The Decca label instead chose a band called the Tremeloes, who no one remembers today. It is widely considered the most big mistake in the history of twentieth-century music.

24. The Beatles bought an island...

In 1967, when the Beatles were at the height of their drug addiction, they decided to buy their own island. Throwing in cash, the band members bought a beautiful private island in Greece where they wanted to live together, away from screaming fans. Unfortunately, when the group broke up, the island was also sold.

25. Beatles songs heal

Some scientists have suggested that several Beatles songs could help children with autism and other disabilities. In particular, they refer to the songs "Here Comes The Sun", "Octopus's Garden", "Yellow Submarine", "Hello Goodbye", "Blackbird" and "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".

Not so long ago, it appeared on the Web, which, of course, will be of interest to all fans of this group.