The Beatles: The Most Influential Act Of The Beatles

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The Beatles were an english rock band who were formed in the 1960s, based in Liverpool. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr were the members of the beatles. They became the most influential act of the rock era. To be called the most influential act of the rock era to me, it would have me crying and feeling accomplished. That I could influence people just because of something I love to do is amazing. That would be amazing and I would never stop doing what I love until I physically can not do it any more.
In the early 60s the beatles popularity emerged as Beatlemania. They built their reputation playing around clubs in liverpool and hamburg. That was for a 3 year period and then there hit “Love Me Do’ took off in the …show more content…

McCartney was raised in a traditional working-class family, just like a fellow beatles Ringo Starr and George Harrison. When McCartney was 14 years old, his mother died of complications after a mastectomy. Also bandmate , John Lennon, also lost his mother at a young age - a connection that would create a close bond between the two musicians. Encouraged by his father to try out multiple musical instruments, Paul McCartney began his lifelong love affair with music at an early age. Though he took formal music lessons as a boy, the future star preferred to learn by ear, teaching himself the Spanish guitar, trumpet and piano. By age 16, he had already written "When I 'm Sixty-Four," in hopes of eventually selling it to Frank Sinatra. In 1957, He met John Lennon at a festival where Lennon’s band was performing. McCartney was asked to join Lennon’s band, The two quickly became the group 's songwriters, ushering it through many name changes and a few personnel changes as well. Early on, they agreed that all of their songs would be credited to Lennon-McCartney, no matter who had taken lead or, as happened occasionally, written the songs entirely on their …show more content…

George played lead guitar and sometimes sang lead vocals for the Beatles. Like his future bandmates, Harrison was not born into wealth. By his own admission, Harrison was not much of a student, and what little interest he did have in his studies washed away with his discovery of the electric guitar and American rock and roll. As Harrison would later describe it, he had an "epiphany" of sorts at the age 12 or 13 while riding a bike around his neighborhood and getting his first whiff of Elvis Presley 's "Heartbreak Hotel," which was playing from a nearby house. By the age of 14, Harrison, whose early rock heroes included Carl Perkins, Little Richard and Buddy Holly, had purchased his first guitar and taught himself a few chords.
John Winston Lennon was born on October 9, 1940, in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, during a German air raid in World War II. At the age of 4, Lennon’s parents separated and he ended up living with his Aunt mimi. Lennon was devastated when Julia was fatally struck by a car driven by a police officer in July 1958. Her death was one of the most traumatic events in his life. Elvis Presley’s was an inspiration to Lennon to create a band call the Quarrymen.

"I don 't think you could have broken up four very strong people like them," Ono said later, "even if you tried. So there must have been something that

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