Posted in: Rock by gusano22 on July 1, 2008 | 0 Comments
One of the most important bands in history.
Paul and George met at school. John had a band called “The quarry men” Paul and John met because they had a friend in common. Paul and George joined John’s band. Ringo had a jazz band. He was the best drummer in Liverpool. Paul, John and George needed a drummer so they called Ringo.
On the contrary of what many people think, The Beatles and the Rolling Stones were friends.
They met when both bands were starting their career
They played in the same bars.
Some of the first songs of the Rolling Stones were written by Lennon and McCartney.
In 1996 Paul had a car accident and some people thought that he had died. They thought that the other three Beatles were looking for a substitute. His name was William Campbell and he was very similar to Paul.
Another thing that the people thought was that the other three Beatles, although they didn’t want to admit Paul’s death, they left clues in their albums and lyrics.
One of these albums was Abbey Road
Some of the clues were:
In 1966 the Beatles decided not to tour anymore. Retirement from touring gave them plenty of time, for the first time in their career, to prepare their next record. Paul proposed that they should create fictitious characters for each band member and record an album that would be a performance by that fictitious band called “Sgt. Pepper”s lonely hearts club band”.It is considered the most influential rock album of all time.
The cover of the album is a colorful collage of many famous people that the Beatles admired. The concept was to create a scene that showed the Sgt Pepper band performing in a park.
A big part of what broke up The Beatles was the tremendous egos(/igos) and differences of the four, and particularly the two main players Lennon and McCartney.
In the very beginning they sat across from each other and write together. Later the extent of their collaboration was trying to out do the other. The Beatles made it to the top not by trying to impress us, but by trying to impress each other. The thing that made the Beatles what they were was that each one was 25% of the whole. What destroyed them was egoism.
In 1980, coming home late from a session, Lennon was killed by Mark David Chapman, a fan to whom he’d given an autograph earlier that day. Lennon turned and Chapman shot him five times. This happened not much time after Paul and john were able to mend their relationship, so it made impossible to think about them singing together again.
His murder was perhaps the most emotionally and shocking felt of all rock deaths.
