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at a glance...
Hometown: Liverpool, England
Formed: 1957
Personnel:
John Lennon -vocals, rhythm guitar, piano
Paul McCartney -vocals, bass, piano
George Harrison -lead guitar, vocals, sitar
Ringo Starr -drums, percussion
Related Bands:
Plastic Ono Band, Wings, The Rolling Stones, Cream, ELO, Ravi Shankar, every musical group, rock or otherwise, since 1964...
Notes:
The Beatles...well, you know the story. Liverpudlian roustabouts in love with American rock 'n' roll pick up guitars, move to Hamburg to learn to play, figure out how to write pop songs and save the world for teenagers. How did they do it? They invented history's greatest hairdo (for men and women). They wrote four-chord pop and symphonic mood music without claiming one's superiority over the other. They were political, sexual, comical and emotional. They were smart, classy and stoned. Without The Beatles...well, it just doesn't bear thinking about, does it?
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