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TOP TEN MUSICAL FACTS ABOUT THE BEATLES! - Coggle Diagram
TOP TEN MUSICAL FACTS ABOUT THE BEATLES!
3) The band was really struggling to keep a dummer but then they eventually recruited Pete.
5) 'Please Please Me', The Beatles first single, was able to reach No.1 in UK.
4) Their first music contract was signed in January 1962.
8) The Beatles was formed by Lennon which he called "Quarrymen" in 1956. McCartney decided to join and he was a guitarist. Harrison also joined but at first Lennon was not super impressed but eventually Harrison got in. Later they called themselves the Silver Beatles and then eventually The Beatles.
10) Rubber Soul and Revolver marked a big point in the Beatles history. It combined Eastern and country-western. Breaking anything that defined themselves as "Rock and Roll".
9) The Beatles "I want to hold your hand" was able to hit number after 3 weeks of releasing.
7) The Beatles are from Liverpool in England and they were influenced by the guitar-and-washboard style.
2) The band got their name from combining the words 'beat' into it.
6) Band members included George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and Ringo Starr.
11) While My Guitar Weeps (Harrison) I want to hold your hand (Lennon-McCartney) A Day in the Life's (Lennon-McCartney) Strawberry Fields Forever (Lennon-McCartney) Yesterday (Lennon-McCartney). As you can see most songs were written by the famous Lennon-McCartney collab.
12) The Beatles was inspired to become a Rock and Role band from the legend Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry as well.
13) The Beatles songs were incorporated by elements of classical music and traditional pop
sources:
https://www.biography.com/news/how-the-beatles-formed
(facts 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, and 5)
https://www.biography.com/news/how-the-beatles-formed
(facts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5)
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/11/637468053/a-songwriting-mystery-solved-math-proves-john-lennon-wrote-in-my-life#:~:text=John%20Lennon%20and%20Paul%20McCartney%20wrote%20lyrics%20and%20music%20for,hundreds%20of%20millions%20of%20albums
. (fact 11)
https://www.quora.com/Who-influenced-the-Beatles#:~:text=were%20their%20conte-,Good%20question.,the%20Everly%20Brothers%2C%20Fats%20Domino
. (fact 12)
https://blogs.adams.edu/thepawprint/the-beatles-some-history-behind-the-influence/#:~:text=The%20Beatles%20had%20such%20a,classical%20influences%20in%20their%20songs.(fact
13)
1) Lennon and McCartney first met while playing in a skiffle band. (A skiffle is a music genre which has influence from blues, jazz, etc.)
