Engelska- The Beatles

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Introduction
The Beatles was a very popular British pop group in the 60s.
All the members came from Liverpool in England. The group had
four members: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

How it all started
In March 1957 John started the group " The Quarry men". The same year he met Paul who became a member of the group. Paul brought George who was his friend from school. John played guitar and sang together with Paul who also played bass guitar, George played the guitar. " The Quarry Men’s" drummer varied. One of them was Pete Best. They played at different night-clubs in Hamburg and Liverpool. The group were inspired by artistes like Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly and The Everly Brothers. John and Paul started to write their own songs. Most of the songs they played was their own compositiones which was quite unusual. The name of the group changed a lot during the first year, “Johnny and The Moondogs”, The silver Beatles.1960 they decided on the name The Beatles. They were, like I said before great fans of Buddy Holly and The crickets and they also wanted a name inspired by an insect. They decided on "The Beatles", beat + beetle .
The group’s first phonograph recording, My Bonnie they did together with Tony Sheridan in 1961.


The same year The Beatles met Brian Epstein who asked them if he could be their manager. The group liked him and said yes. Brian always wanted to be a manager of a band so now his dream came true. But it’s said that the real reason why he wanted The Beatles was because he was in love with John.

Brian started searching for a record company who wanted to promote
The Beatles. He asked Decca, and got an audition. But Decca said no, the didn´t want The Beatles. After Deccas reject he called the recordproducer George Martin, who arranged a contract with Parophone. The drummer Pete Best was replaced by Ringo Starr in august 1962. The same year The Beatles had some success with Please, Please Me and Love Me Do, after that the group had their big break through with She loves you. They had their first tour abroad and the tour went to Sweden!!!
They played in some small cities, they also took part in the TV-program "Drop in".
After their first tour abroad USA wanted them to come. But the group said no. They didn´t want to come until they were number one on the hitlists. When they in 1964 reached the first place with the single I Want To Hold Your Hand, they were ready fore the big land in vest. The tour became a real success. Now the whole world wanted them. They went to Japan, Austria and the Philippines. Where ever they went they were always surrounded by crazy, wild screaming fans. Something called
"Beatlemania" appeared. It became so bad that The Beatles decided to quit touring. They gave their last concert the 29th august in 1966 at the Candlestick park in San Francisco.

Now the group could concentrate at the songwriting. They started to write a new kind of music, a mixture of classic an Asiatic music. This new music became very popular, now it wasn´t just the young people who were the fans.
1965 The Beatles where awarded the British imperieorden M.B.E (Member of British Empire).

1967 They release Sgt Peppers Lonely Heart Club band. Witch is concidered to be a milestone in pop history.
In April 1970 the group was dissolved. The members blamed Paul, they said that it was his fault that The Beatles had to split up. He played the boss in the band and the others didn´t like it.


What happened with Paul, John, George and Ringo after the end of The Beatles?

Paul
He started to write his own music. He recorded his first solorecord, McCartney in 1970, the same year The Beatles split up. After the phonograph recording he started a band called Wings they did some famous albums Tug of War (1982), Flowers in the dirt (1989) and Flaming Pie (1997), A few years later he got a price as the worlds most successful pop artiste, because he had sold more than 100 milj. records and had more than 60 gold records. WOW!!

John
John and his wife Yoko decided to start a band, Plastic Ono Band. In 1970 the released The record Plastic Ono Band, when John sang “ I don´t believe in Beatles, I don´t believe in God, I just believe in my self”. Plastic Ono Band where the opposite to The Beatles. The music was tuff, hard and raw.

George
George released the single My Sweet Lord in 1971, it became a big hit. Right after he also released the treble LP:n All Things Must Pass. On the records there were beats he wrote a long time ago. He arranged several charityconcerts.

Ringo
Ringo didn´t do much after The Beatles split up. He enjoyed the memories and later released a couple of records.


The Beatles albums

Please, Please Me (1963)
With The Beatles
A Hard Day´s night (1964)
Beatles For Sale
Help! (1965)
Rubber soul
Revolver (1966)
Sgt Pepper´s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
Beatles In Magical Mystery Tour
The Beatles (1968)
Yellow Sumberine (1969)
Abbey Road
Let It Be (1970)





Facts about the members

John Winston Lennon
He was born 9th of October 1940 in Liverpool. He grow up with his parents, but he was raised by his mother because his father worked at sea and was never home. John’s mother, Julia wasn´t home so much either, she spent most of her time at the pub instead of taking care of her son. Later John’ s parents divorced and Julia met another man, they had two daughters. John choose too live with his mother which did not turn out well so he moved in with his aunt, Mimi. John went to the only art school in Liverpool, “The Quarry Bank". There he met Paul and George. A few years later John’s mother died in a car accident.
John married his boyhood love Cynthia Powel 23th of August 1962. They had a son named Julian. After six years they divorced and Julian moved with his mother. At the end of the 60s John met the artist Yoko Ono. She became his big love. She had a big influence on him, she changed his personality. It said that it was Yoko who split up The Beatles because she changed John so much. But she was good fore him, he needed her she filled the emptiness after his mother. Yoko and John had a son, Scean. John and Yoko made a few albums together like Two Wings, Life With The Lions, Wedding and Double Fantasy. The 9th December of 1980 John was shot to death by the an insane man Mark David Chapman. “The whole stopped” television news were interrupted and all over the world fans grieved.

John wasn’t just a musician. He also fought fore the world peace, wrote poems and made films. He often performed at charity galas UNICEF among others.



Sir James Paul McCartney
Paul was born on the 18th of June 1942. His family moved a lot and when he was thirteen years old he moved in next to John’s aunt, Mimmi. Paul’s mother died in breast cancer when he was fourteen years old. Paul didn’t fell well after that but with John and the music’s help he managed. Paul’s father worked as a cotton salesman during the days and as a jazzmusician in the evenings. When the price of cotton went down in 1944 the family was very short of money. Paul wanted very much to play the guitar and his brother managed to save enough to bye a guitar to him. Paul found it hard to play to start with and discovered that he was left-handed. He practises and played and got better and better. John was impressed and asked him to be a member of “ The Quarry Men”. Paul was known as the cute Beatle, every one fell for his smile. In 1969 Paul married Linda Eastman, they had two children, James and Stella. Linda McCartney died of breast cancer some years ago and just recently Paul remarried Heather-



Paul McCartney live, in Globen 5th of May 2003!!
I was there!
Me, Tove, my mother, her friend Inger and my little sister, we were there and heard him live. It was almost impossible to get tickets but we managed. We got stuck in a traffic jam near Globen and almost missed the concert. We left mum in the car and ran to the entrance and up the stairs to the 7th floor where we had our seats. What a feeling when Paul came in, I just screamed and felt the tears coming. He started with one of my favourite songs “ Hello, Good Bye” then he played non stop for two and a half hours and it was just fantastic. (Mum managed to find a parking place and missed only the beginning of the first tune).




George Harold Harrison
George was born on the 25th of February 1943. He grew up in Liverpool. He was the youngest of four children. The family was quite poor and lived in a small apartment in the slum districts. To start with George was doing well in school but after they moved to a more fashionable district he felt he didn’t “fit in” with the others. He met Paul on the school bus and heard about “The Quarry Men” and started dreaming. Music and guitar playing was his main interests, much more fun than school and homework. George was a great fan of John Lennon and wanted to be just like him. Paul introduced him to John who said “ he just a child, he can’t play in our band”. George was only fourteen years old and couldn’t be a member but sometimes when some of guitarists was ill he got a chance to play. George was good with the guitar and was finally accepted not only because of his ...