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Background information
Origin Liverpool, England
Genres Rock, pop
Years active 1960–1970
Labels Parlophone, Capitol, Apple
Members
John Lennon
Paul McCartney
George Harrison
Ringo Starr
Past members
Stuart Sutcliffe
Pete Best

The Beatles were an English rock band, formed in Liverpool in 1960, and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimedacts in the history of popular music.[1] From 1962, the group consisted of John Lennon (rhythm guitar, vocals), Paul McCartney (bass guitar, vocals), George Harrison (lead guitar, vocals) and Ringo Starr (drums, vocals). Rooted in skiffleand 1950s rock and roll, the group later worked in many genres ranging from pop ballads topsychedelic rock, often incorporating classical and other elements ininnovative ways. The nature of their enormous popularity, which first emerged as the "Beatlemania" fad, transformed as their songwriting grew in sophistication. The group came to be perceived as the embodiment of progressive ideals, seeing their influence extend into the social and cultural revolutions of the 1960s.

Formation and early years (1957–1962)
Aged sixteen, singer and guitarist JohnLennon formed the skiffle group The Quarrymen with someLiverpool schoolfriends in March 1957.[1] Fifteen-year-old Paul McCartney joined as a guitarist after he and Lennon met that July.[8] When McCartney in turn invited George Harrison to watch the group the following February, the fourteen-year-old joined as lead guitarist.[9][10] By 1960, Lennon's schoolfriends had left the group, he had begunstudies at the Liverpool College of Art and the three guitarists were playing rock and roll whenever they could get a drummer.[11] Joining on bass in January, Lennon's fellow student Stuart Sutcliffe suggested changing the band name to "The Beetles" as a tribute to Buddy Holly and The Crickets, and they became "The Beatals" for the first few months of the year.[12][13] After trying other namesincluding "Johnny and the Moondogs", "Long John and The Beetles" and "The Silver Beatles", the band finally became "The Beatles" in August.[14] The lack of a permanent drummer posed a problem when the group's unofficial manager,Allan Williams, arranged a resident band booking for them in Hamburg, Germany.[15] Before the end of August they auditioned and hired drummer Pete Best,[16] and the five-piece bandleft for Hamburg four days later, contracted to fairground showman Bruno Koschmider for a 48-night residency. "Hamburg in those days did not have rock 'n' roll music clubs. It had strip clubs", says biographerPhilip Norman.
Controversy, studio years and break-up (1966–1970)
Events leading up to final tour
In June 1966, Yesterday and Today—one of the compilation albums created by CapitolRecords for the US market—caused an uproar with its cover, which portrayed the grinning Beatles dressed in butcher's overalls, accompanied by raw meat and mutilated plastic baby dolls. A popular, though apocryphal, story was that this was meant as a satirical response to the way Capitol had "butchered" their albums.[113]Thousands of copies of the album had a new cover pasted over the original; anunpeeled "first-state" copy fetched $10,500 at a December 2005 auction.[114] During a tour of the Philippines the month after the Yesterday and Today furore, The Beatles unintentionally snubbed the nation's first lady, Imelda Marcos, who had expected the group to attend a breakfast reception at the Presidential Palace.[115] When presented with the invitation, Epstein politely declined on behalf of thegroup, as it had never been his policy to accept such official invitations.[116] The group soon found that the Marcos regime was unaccustomed to taking "no" for an answer. The resulting riots endangered the group and they escaped the country with difficulty.[117]
Después de la separación
1971-1980
Poco antes y después de su separación oficial, cada uno de ellos publicó álbumes en solitario,...