The Beatles Informative Speech

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The Beatles Have anyone heard of the Foo Fighters? If you have not, you maybe heard of Chuck Berry (was in Cadillac Records and portrayed by Mos Def)? You make be wondering why I’m asking these question? The reason is because they all been influenced by one noble group, which is the Beatles. The people that was in the Beatles was John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Richard Starkey ( Ringo Starr). John Lennon was the leader of the group, also from Liverpool, England and also a song writer. Paul McCartney is now as a multi-instrumentalist, and composer, and also from Liverpool, England (Fun Fact: Paul McCartney did not like Michael Jackson). George Harrison was the lead guitarist in the group some of the group’s awards came from Harrison’s …show more content…

Actually, they started off playing in locals clubs like any local musician/ band. When they was a local group they also had two different musician starting off and their name was Pete Best and Stuart Sutcliffe. They played in a local club in Liverpool. Their booking agent, Allan Williams, suggested that they going to Hamburg because another group was successful in the city and was confident that the Beatles would be successful also. When they was in Hamburg Stu left to go back to school. They also was with Bert Kaempfert Productions, but broke up with them. It have not been revealed why till this …show more content…

They also started Beatlemania, which was basically a tour. In the tour they played their first two album which are Please Please Me and With the Beatles. A lot came out to see this British band. Radio airplay and a broad marketing campaign in the U.S. quickly and their sound were something new and exciting, and they were coming to America. Also, they had showed on the show Ed Sullivan Show which boosted up their fame. The Beatles have also did movies. They did a movie named The Hours and Times which won a. award as Sundance's Grand Jury Prize (which was an award giving out at the Sundance Film Festival in 1992). They won countless Grammy awards, such as; Best New Artist (1965), Best Music video (1997), and Brit Award for British Group. Like any other band the Beatles had problems. Unfortunately, the Fab Four broke up in April 1970. The death of Brian Samuel Epstein (which was the manager), he overdosed on sleeping pills. This mean the Beatles have to handle their financial and legal battles, which they was not ready to do. The Beatles was going downhill because everyone was working on their solo careers in 1968-1969. John Lennon and Paul McCartney let the group in 1970. Everyone in the former group had successful solo careers. Everyone won awards and got respect for their solo work also any of them was song

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