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Over the 1960s as a whole, the Beatles were the dominant youth-centred pop act on the sales charts. [14] " She Loves You", the band's second number-one single on the Record Retailer chart (subsequently adopted as the UK Singles Chart), [15] became the best-selling single in UK chart history, a position it retained until 1978. [16]
The Beatles' popularity and influence grew into what was seen as an embodiment of socio-cultural movements of the decade. In Gould's view, they became icons of the 1960s counterculture and a catalyst for bohemianism and activism in various social and political arenas, fuelling movements such as women's liberation and environmentalism. [238]
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. The core lineup of the band comprised John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.They are widely regarded as the most influential band of all time [1] and were integral to the development of 1960s counterculture and the recognition of popular music as an art form. [2]
The Beatles went viral before there was viral.. In 1964, after playing to a staggering 45% of American households on “The Ed Sullivan Show” in February, the band embarked upon a chaotic tour ...
The subject of Beatles ’64 — the new documentary produced by Martin Scorsese that debuts Nov. 29 on Disney+ — is a familiar one: the Fab Four’s arrival in the United States on Feb. 7, 1964 ...
In Beatles '64, the new documentary which charts the impact of the band's first US tour and how it catapulted them to global superstardom, Paul McCartney makes a suggestion as to why they achieved ...
How the Beatles Changed the World is a 2014 non-fiction children's book by American writer and historian Martin W. Sandler.The book details the history of the English rock band The Beatles, organized topically with "thematic chapters on the band's impact on individual aspects of culture", ranging from their impact on fashion to "the feelings that Western music stirred in young people east of ...
John Lennon became infamous, particularly in the United States, after he remarked in 1966 that The Beatles were "more popular than Jesus", with Beatles records being burned in public in some places in the South. [7] However, he later said that this statement was misunderstood and not meant to be anti-Christian. [8]