Who haven't heard about The Beatles? Sure
that you have ever sung to the rhythm of ''Let It Be''.
As everybody knows, The Beatles were an English pop band
formed by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. They
became undoubtedly the most influential group of the pop-rock era.
The
group went through several names. They adopted names such as the Johnny and the
Moondogs, The Silver Beetles, The Silver Beatles, and eventually The Beatles.
By the end of 1961, Brian Epstein, whose
family owned the furniture/record store NEMS, began to hear about the Beatles.
Eventually he decided to go see this group for
himself. When he arrived at a club known as The Cavern he was amazed at what he
saw. Liverpool was full of guys like that at the time, but the Beatles had
something else - charisma. By January 1962, Brian was officially their manager,
putting the boys in suits, but keeping their long hair, gave them a look
different from any other group around.
The band started to play in diverses pubs in Liverpool. It is in this moment when they realized that they needed a bass guitarist, therefore Stuart Sutcliffe joined them.
The birth of the band
It all began because John Lennon and his friend Peter Shotton took part in a band called The Quarrymen whom Paul McCartney and George Harrison joined a few years later.
The band started to play in diverses pubs in Liverpool. It is in this moment when they realized that they needed a bass guitarist, therefore Stuart Sutcliffe joined them.
At that time it was cool to put animal’s names to music bands and from the word game “beetle” and “beat” (style of music that they practise), in this way the name The Beatles was formed.
“Abbey Road”: one of the greatest albums of all times
Abbey Road album's cover
Did you know that ''Abbey Road'' was not going to be the name of this album?
During the recording sessions, the production team called it ''Everest'' because that was the name of the brand cigarettes that one of them smoked. Because of that, they wanted to go to the Everest to take a picture for the album’s cover. However, they wanted to finish the album quickly so they took a photo in the middle of a road. It tooks the photographer only ten minutes.
''Abbey Road'' was their final album recorded but not their last album
released and it is considered as the best album of their career and one of the
best albums of all times. Why? Because as a result of a change of the way they
worked, they produced creative and incredible hits: ''Something'', ''Here Comes
the Sun'' or ''Because''.
''It was a very happy record. I guess it was
happy because everybody thought it was going to be the last’’, said producer
George Martin.
''Come Together'' is the opening track of this
album, in which John Lennon played rhythm guitar apart from singing. Let’s
listen this awesome masterpiece.
Francisco Jesús García Carrillo EPD 12 (Group 5)
Thank God that these four people met and decided to form a group. I think we've all had a song by The Beatles that has accompanied us at some point in our lives. For me it was Hey Jude, a single published on the album The Beatles, a year before Abbey Road. It was the main song of a trip that I made with my high school class in which we lived and restored a town with classes from other provinces and countries. In the same way that for me it was this song for another person can be another and this is the beauty of the music, the unity of the people, a feature that The Beatles music has caused for years.
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