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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.
By 1968, the Beatles had achieved commercial and critical success. The group's mid-1967 release, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, was number one in the UK for 27 weeks, until the start of February 1968, [2] having sold 250,000 copies in the first week after release. [3]
Yesterday and Today (also rendered as "Yesterday" ... and Today in part of the original packaging) [4] is a studio album by the English rock band the Beatles.Released in the United States and Canada in June 1966, it was their ninth album issued on Capitol Records and twelfth American release overall.
Brian Epstein, the Beatles' manager, announced the band's intention to tour the United States in early March 1966 while in New York. [1] [2] Taking place in August, it was the band's third annual summer tour of the US. [3]
The Beatles arriving for concerts in Madrid, July 1965. From 1961 to 1966, the English rock band the Beatles performed all over the Western world. They began performing live as The Beatles on 15 August 1960 at The Jacaranda in Liverpool and continued in various clubs during their visit to Hamburg, West Germany, until 1962, with a line-up of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Stuart ...
2. "Come and Get It" by Badfinger. 1969 Written and produced by Paul McCartney, this song became a top 10 hit for Badfinger, a band signed to the Beatles’ Apple label.
Footage of the Beatles' February 1964 performances on The Ed Sullivan Show and at the Washington Coliseum in Washington, D.C. has also been restored, with audio from these performances remixed by Giles Martin using de-mixing technology developed by Peter Jackson's WingNut Films and previously used for Beatles releases on the 2022 reissue of ...
Over the 1960s as a whole, the Beatles were the dominant youth-centred pop act on the sales charts. [14] " She Loves You", the band's second number-one single on the Record Retailer chart (subsequently adopted as the UK Singles Chart), [15] became the best-selling single in UK chart history, a position it retained until 1978. [16]