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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 in Western popular music and were integral to the development of 1960s counterculture and the recognition of popular music as an art form.
The band underwent many name and membership changes, culminating in 1962 with the famous line-up of Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. After the Beatles disbanded in 1970, each of the four members went on to have success, both as solo acts and with their own groups.
Stuart Fergusson Victor Sutcliffe (23 June 1940 – 10 April 1962) was a British painter and musician from Edinburgh, Scotland, best known as the original bass guitarist of the Beatles. Sutcliffe left the band to pursue his career as a painter, having previously attended the Liverpool College of Art.
All four members of The Beatles will feature on the band's long-awaited "final" song "Now and Then," releasing worldwide on Nov. 2 thanks ... were still alive. ... With Lennon's original demo, the ...
It was released nine years after the Beatles disbanded, and is the only biographical film about the band to be released while all four members were alive. Pete Best , the Beatles' original drummer, served as a technical advisor for the production.
Stuart Sutcliffe [5] was the original bassist of the five-member Beatles. He played with the band primarily during their days as a club act in Hamburg, West Germany. When the band returned to Liverpool in 1961, Sutcliffe remained behind in Hamburg. He died of a brain hemorrhage shortly thereafter.
The tape was passed on to the surviving Beatles members in 1994 by Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, and featured the songs "Free as a Bird" and "Real Love," which were both reworked by the surviving ...
By the mid-1960s, the Beatles became interested in tape loops and found sounds. [36] [37] Early examples of the group sampling existing recordings include loops on "Revolution 9" [37] (the repetitive "number nine" is from a Royal Academy of Music examination tape, some chatter is from a conversation between George Martin and Apple office manager Alistair Taylor, and a chord from a recording of ...