The classic first single from the famous British “Beetles” celebrates 60 years
This week marks exactly 60 years since the legendary British band The Beatles released their first single with the song Love Me Do. It happened on October 5, 1962.
The Beatles is already a classic today in a certain sense. Their songs undoubtedly belong to the golden fund of popular music of the 20th century. The story of the famous four began to be written in the late 1950s in Liverpool, where John Lennon founded the group The Quarrymen. Under the title Beetles players began performing in 1960 and two years later the composition of the band settled in its definitive form John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. To this day, the Beatles are among the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands in the history of popular music. When the music magazine Rolling Stone compiled a list of the greatest albums in the history of popular music in 2003, the Beatles made the top ten a total of four times, in 2004, the magazine even ranked the Beatles at number one in the list of the 100 greatest artists of all time. He also stated that their innovative music and cultural influence helped characterize the 1960s, and their influence on popular culture is still evident today. What is certain is that the Beatles set the trends of their time with their clothing, styles and sayings, while their growing interest in social issues influenced the social and cultural upheavals of the 1960s.
In terms of their recordings, the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) based on single and album sales in America named the Beatles as best selling band in history and the best-selling musical group in the history of the United States of America. In the UK, the Beatles released more than 40 number one singles, albums and records, and this commercial success was repeated in many other countries. Their record company EMI estimated that by 1985 alone they had sold over a billion records and cassettes worldwide.
Soon after its formation, the group began to settle in Liverpool clubs. Discover her for the worldBrian Epstein, who worked in a record shop in Liverpool, became the group’s manager and remained so until 1967, when he overdosed on the barbiturate carbitol aged just 32. Thanks to him, the Beatles received an invitation from Parlophone producer George Martin to record in EMI’s London studios on Abbey Road and from several recording frequencies, the Beatles’ debut single with the song was finally born Love Me Do on the front page that was published in October 1962.
Their first album Please, please me from the following year marked the literal beginning of Beatlemania in Great Britain. The group started touring all over Europe and then all over the world. During the years 1963–1964 they played over 200 big concerts. In 1964, a successful tour of the USA followed, an appearance on the famous Ed Sullivan show and the filming of the first film A hard day’s night (Perný den) and the album of the same name.
October 26, 1965 received by members of the Beatles Order of the British Empire and immediately they made another film called “Help” (Help!). Musically, they began to deviate from simple lyrics about love and began to experiment with the sounds of different instruments, whether it was the Indian string instrument sitar, or collaboration with a string quartet, or even a symphony orchestra.
In 1966, at the height of their fame, the band and the Beatles decided to stop performing live. The Beatles last live performance in Britain was in May 1966, and their last concert ever was in San Francisco on 29 August 1966.
In 1967, the band’s most famous album was released – Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and in 1969, the Beatles were in the studio for the last time when they recorded the Abbey Road album. In 1970, the album was still released Let it be, but that was after the formation announced its disbandment.
It is generally believed that the group’s breakup was due to deepening differences and mutual rivalry between John Lennon and Paul McCartney, who wrote most of the Beatles’ songs.
She is considered to be the main culprit of the breakup of the Beatles Yoko Ono, John Lennon’s partner. The daughter of a talkative Japanese banker and a member of the avant-garde art association Fluxus, she proposed to Lennon, who was still married at the time, in November 1966 and slowly wrapped her completely around his finger. The more fundamental problem, however, was that she assumed the right to interfere in the creation of groups, which quite understandably irritated the three musicians.
The fact is that the photographer has become a similarly disturbing element Linda Eastmanthe daughter of the owner of a well-known camera manufacturing company, with whom Paul McCartney started dating in 1967 and married two years later.
In 1968, the Beatles were working on the so-called The white album and the main protagonists were so exasperated that in the end it was the otherwise calmest of the Beatles, drummer Ringo Starr, who was the first to call it quits. This happened on August 22, a day after the first Russian military aircraft began landing at Ruzyna in Prague. After a fortnight, Ringo returned, but the atmosphere on set remained tense.
Full and irreversible disagreements erupted in 1969, when the group hired McCartney as their manager against McCartney’s will Allena Klein. Added to this were the company’s financial problems Apple, which the Beatles founded in 1968 and which, as it turned out, was filled with a number of fraudsters who in just nine months drained the band of incredible sums of money. And the icing on the cake was a dispute between Brian Epstein’s heirs, EMI and Apple, with all the group’s royalties temporarily blocked.
Day April 10, 1970 announced that Paul McCartney was leaving the group, and so the path of the four famous musicians finally parted ways. But they all continued their solo careers and all four recorded their solo albums during the same year.
All hopes of a possible rebirth of the Beatles were ended by the violent death of John Lennon in December 1980, when the singer was shot by deranged fan Mark Chapman. The remaining members of the group – George Harrison, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr – then came together to make music together in February 1994 to record two tracks from John’s legacy, Real Love and Free As A Bird. In November 2001, George Harrison died of cancer.
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