Maestra

Lennon-McCartney

Welcome to the new Elizabethans, 60 programs dedicated to the men and women who've changed this country or would reflect changes good and bad in British life during the Queen's reign.

Like many youngsters of my age on the early 60's, I just missed the Beatles. In my case, because of a snow storm. It _____ due to play in a _____ small town, nothing special, a new year dance.But their playing for Hanford was diverted, the roads were bad and didn't make it. The following night, on January the third night in 1963 they played on a two ____________ bag by the Alex … the resident band. The ____ food club had booked them and payed them 42 pounds, but it was too far and for someone of my age, not yet in my teens, still out of my league. The ______ was a pleasure palacethat would have to wait.

So they pass through ______ for the highlands for a few more modest _______ never to return. The local paper advertised them as an appearance by the “love me do” boys, that single had been released in October just to remind people that they did have some faith in build their ___. Within a few weeks, the problem wasn't attracting a ______, it was keeping people away. Theyrecorded the album “Please, please me” in one day in February 1963. A month after they had been skating through the highlands snow and the ________ broke.

By the summer, the screaming ____ were falling _____ the country pleased were them over tightened hold them back and carry of to the girls overcome with the hysteria and The Beatles were the phenomenon of the age responsible for a musicalexplosion that was __________ than any will have, the big _______ in which the culture of the 60s was born. “She loves you” in August, was the third number one of that year and stayed there for seven weeks.

But a bit hundreds of performers since ___________ fans to fancy and cover the walls and _______ discs, but this was the first time no one had experienced before: a dance of teenage _______ to asoundtrack by Lennon and McCartney.

Two generations on, sited by music dazzle by stars, the ______ found it difficult to realise how much of the revelation they were. My memory of missing the __________ are a reminder of the _______ with which gold days passed away.

The last public concert was at Candlestick Park, San Francisco in August 1966 ______ four years after “Love me do”. By theend of the 60s that entire recording career as a band was over. No revolution in music could ever been accomplished more quickly and completely.

Paul McCartney met John Lennon in July 1957, and agreed to join his ______ group “Quarryman”. They were only 15 and 16 years old at the time, George Harrison joined the year latter. ___________ drama __________ best in 1960, in the same week they wentto Hamburg for the first time as “The Beatles”.

They were the first boys to breaken the rock and roll, the world that Elvis Presley _________ for a generation of Americans in the 50s Cliff Richard,... and others were ______________. But by the time that Lennon and McCartney had finished the third album “A hard days night” in summer 1964, the Beatles were stablished permanently so it seem as themost successful performers of the new age. Dressed in the colours suits that no one else would dare to imitate with their own haircuts with a manager Bryan... should be enough to realise what he got his hands on.

From the start, Lennon and McCartney could work magic in the studio. McCartney was a natural _______ who could find an original melody on a keyboard or a ______________________ withan instinct that he always had. Later in life, he spent a little time with a distinguish teacher of composition at one of the music leader academies who concluded that there wasn't much point in continuing, not because McCartney couldn't learn the formal rules of harmony the ____________________ had to be music properly, but because he had it all naturally, there was no need to clutter up a...