The Beatles was a British guitar band that revolutionized pop music. The band members were these four young lads from Liverpool, England: John, Paul, George and Ringo. After their years of playing the dark nightclubs, dressed in rough leather jackets and jeans, they were groomed by their manager and officially introduced to the world in sharp looking Pierre Cardin suits and mop top hairstyles in 1962. The Beatles’ upgraded stage presentation and exuberant musical sound, brought huge excitement to (mostly female) fans who drowned the live performance of the band with their shrieks, thus creating the Beatlemania craze.
Besides their unique musical sound in the early Sixties - a combination of melodic pop/rock songs supported by close harmony vocals - the Beatles were so disarming in their communication because of their funny down-to-earth image combined with their nasal Scouse (Liverpool accent). This added to their popularity in the United States and the rest of the world.
- John Lennon (rhythm guitar, vocals) was the band leader of The Beatles. He had a rebellious anti-establishment attitude and was the cynical and witty one in the group. A belter (shouter) with a great vocal sound, John needed Paul McCartney’s contribution to make his songs stronger. Most of the Beatles song catalogue consisted of Lennon & McCartney pop compositions, and this is what made the early Beatles repertoire so contagious to the fans.
- Paul McCartney (bass guitar, vocals) had this happy enthusiastic and friendly mindset and personality. He was the most commercially focused Beatle. He played several instruments and knew how to translate his positive attitude and talent into his (romantic) song ideas. Paul was a great colorful singer who could adapt different approaches to his vocals, but he needed John Lennon’s talent to add sharper edges and complement his own compositions.
- George Harrison (lead guitar, vocals) used to be called ‘the quite Beatle’ in the band’s early days, because of his shy composure on stage, although he was often the funny one when meeting the press and in interviews. George’s composing talents began to grow after the Beatles’ 1963-65 hype. His involvement with Indian mysticism and sitar music opened his ability to come up with innovative and touching song compositions that added a special flavor to the Beatles music in the later years.
- Ringo Starr (drums, vocals) brought the stable and binding factor to the group. He came up with a lot of humorous phrases (malapropisms) like ‘A hard days night’ and ‘Tomorrow never knows’, which were used as Beatles song titles. Actually the quiet type with his infectious smile and the puppy dog eyes, Ringo was adored by the young fans. His drumming style was very strong and steady, but more that of a servant than a virtuoso. Seemingly effortless, he gave the Beatles songs their extra dynamics and recognizable swing and breaks.
In 2015 music teacher Giuseppe Sandro Bellantone wrote: ‘Music is absolutely an essential part of all western cultures, not only just as an expression of the way all youth live with, but also as an indicator of the multi-cultural nature of several countries today.
The Beatles pop music is undoubtedly the greatest. They are the most influential and the most successful band both in academia and in business in the history of the whole pop music. In the early 1960's they created a huge controversial enthusiasm among their fans and revolutionized pop music in regard to the development in the music itself and their influence on western society. The impact they have had on the music industry worldwide, was so immense that no one else (even Elvis Presley who tried to have them banned from coming into the United States after he had met them via the CIA) can go anywhere near them. For the development of rock around the world, the Beatles made tremendous contributions to the impact of ‘do it your self compositions’ (later to be copied by several generations of rock bands in their music and ideas).’
For more info about the Ron Howard directed Beatles movie ‘Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years’, go to: http://www.thebeatles.com/news/watch-trailer-beatles-eight-days-week-touring-years
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