The Beatles Influence On American Culture

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The Beatles were an influence to people in rock and roll music, and even though the band isn’t together anymore, their legacy lives on. The Beatles of course were not born as a band already, they were formed. In the 50’s being in a band was considered cool by many teenagers. As teenagers Ivan and John Lennon were in a band called The Quarry Men. Paul would always play the guitar off to the side and John thought he was really good at it, and invited him to join The Quarry Men. John changed the name to The Beatles after a lot of thought. At first he wanted the name to be something like The Crickets so that it would have two meanings, then eventually the name made it’s way into Beetle, and then to The Beatles. John liked the name Beatles because …show more content…

Two days before the broadcast on Our World, George’s dad died. After George’s dad died, George and his wife were moving into another house and his wife was surprisingly pregnant with their first daughter. The Beatles would also forget how to turn up the amps and how high the microphones had to be for everyone and how far to stand from the microphone because they would come back from a big tour and then they would take a break. Just so they would stop forgetting how to do everything, they started playing in ballrooms just to practice and keep their memory fresh for their next gig. And The Beatles shockingly didn’t like the hotels, guards, police escorts, the press and many other things but that didn’t stop them from loving their fans. (Pritchard & Lysaght, …show more content…

For example the song “Michelle” was just a French tune that The Beatles put random words to and came up with a brilliant song. Same with the song “She Loves You”. On June 26, 1963 in Newcastle, when The Beatles were on their way back to their hotel, Paul thought of the idea to write an answer-type song. So Paul and John stayed up in their hotel room for hours writing the song “She Loves You”. Paul came up with most of the songs, but if he ever got stuck he would turn to John for ideas or to finish the song for him. To Paul, it was easier to write the songs on his own, but Paul couldn’t always think of lyrics for the songs. (Pritchard & Lysaght,

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