It all started in Liverpool, England where four members brought their dynamic lyrics and amazing musical beats to the world. As soon as you say the word “Beatles,” everyone knows that they were an extremely popular band who paved the way for modern day Rock n Roll. People either grew up listening to their songs, know of the band, or they are still riding on the “Beatlemania bus.” Before taking this class, I knew a moderate amount of information on the Beatles. It was known that band was made up of four members; John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. However, I never looked at the way the music was produced. The different melodies, tempos, keys, and other music essentials were foreign to me, but throughout the spring semester, we, the students, have gained musical knowledge based off the music of the …show more content…
In this paper, we are required to do a paper on three different songs, but with sales globally exceeding 1.1 billion and 275 written songs, how can you easily choose just three?
The first song we will analyze by the Beatles, is one of my favorites. This being "Yellow Submarine," with lead vocals by Ringo Starr. This song was produced during, "A New Level of Mastery” in late 1965-66." While the lyrics are simple, I find them to be very catchy and just a fun song to sing along to. “Yellow Submarine” became number one on every major British charts for a total of thirteen weeks (Fontenot, 2015). In the US, the song peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 chart (Fontenot, 2015). It also It won an Ivor Novello Award "for the highest certified sales of any single issued in the UK in 1966" (SWNS Reporter, 2012). This song became the most successful Beatles song that had Ringo Starr as the lead vocalist. When looking at this song from a
"Imagine there 's no heaven, it 's easy if you try," (John Lennon, Imagine). The first line of one of the most sensational, emotion filled songs causes the listener to think. This song is considered one of the most beautiful and meaningful pieces to the world. John Lennon, singer, songwriter, and co-founder of the Beatles, is remembered as a leader in efforts to reach world of love. Although murdered in 1980, his music is still relevant today. His songs described a world without war and he hoped for reconciliation. The song "Imagine" is an example of this.
The Beatles are known, respectively, as the fathers of modern pop music. After their first #1 hit “Please Please Me” was released in 1963 the Beatles were set in motion to become one of the most influential groups of musicians to ever rock our world. With over forty-nine records, 37 #1’s, and thirty- four number one albums (the highest amount of any band in history), there is no denying that they made a monumental ripple in the musical world. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr surprisingly all come from humble beginnings in a town that, until their superstardom, was barely noticed on the map. Liverpool, being kn...
The Beatles are an iconic English rock band and are widely regarded as the “foremost and most influential act of the rock era” (Unterberg). Formed in Liverpool in 1960, the Beatles were comprised of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, with Stuart Sutcliffe on bass guitar in January and Pete
Melba Beals uses concrete words to describe the action that is going on through her experience. In this quote she describes what she sees as she is walking to Central High: “people running”, “uniformed police officers walking”, “carrying weapons”. The style of language that is being used in this quote and the book is informal because of the inappropriate name calling and because this book is fully described in violence. One of the words that has been said in the book and this quote is, “niggers” because white people didn’t accept blacks into their community. This quote and like the book, both has simple, compound and complex sentences to describe in different ways Beals thoughts. The sentences are connected with colons, commas, period and exclamation
The Beatles and the Beach Boys are two of the most recognized, well-known and most popular musical acts of the 1960’s right through to the 1970’s. I will be focusing on the group acts rather than solo performers such as John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison of the Beatles, who took their own stylistic approach to their music after the Beatles’ separation. Each group’s arrangement and use of instruments classify them as part of the overall associated sound and typical subject matter of songs in the 1960’s, yet remain different enough to distinguish between each group’s desired sound.
First you need to decide what form your paper is going to take, then decide what the topic will be about. I decided to do a rhetorical analysis of a song, which I knew very well. Then thought what I could do with the lyrics to make it into a paper that people would
In the book “Behind the Beautiful Forevers”, the author used rhetorical devices Ethos, Pathos and other rhetorical devices like – Allusion, Metaphor, Repetition, Sarcasm, etc. to convince the readers. The author used rhetoric strategy - Ethos by highlighting the ethics followed by the main character – Abdul. She also used rhetorical device – Pathos to emotionally impact the readers of the book by highlighting the struggles of the children like rate bite (P-12,91), polluted environment; brutal murder of Kalu (P-165), suicide of Meena and Sanjay, damaged heart valve disease of Kamble, pathetic living conditions of Annawadians, anytime their huts might raze by the bulldozers, poverty, etc. By highlighting the difficulties of Annawadians, good nature of few characters and with interesting way of storytelling (staring the story with suspense and rewinding the story to six months earlier like in cinema), the author could able to convince her audiences. Other rhetoric devices used by the author given below;
Martin, Marvin. The Beatles: The Music Was Never the Same. New York: F. Watts, 1996. Print.
Finally, this assignment has shown how music can be updated to suit different generations. Through the process of evaluating both songs, and comparing the two, one could say that the differences in the second song help refresh the first version. Although others may remark ‘old is gold’.
American Pie is a song that is a very slow and deliberate song with a lot of thought put into it. This is a song that has over 850 lyrics that play for 8:30, the longest song ever to be listed as the Number one song on top hits charts. All these lyrics don’t just have the meaning of the individual words themselves, they paint a picture for the audience listening about what life was like and the events that transpired in the 1950-70’s, along with how Don McLean interpreted them. The lyrics of this song appeal to the youth of that timeframe in rhetorical ways of Pathos, Ethos, Doxa. Pathos is shown to try and emotionally connect with the audience; Ethos is used to show he knows what he is talking about by relating his real life stories and knowledge back into the essay, and lastly, Doxa is used very often in this in the aspect that Don was a huge Buddy Holly fan and he felt a deep connection to him.
As soon as people hear Michael Jackson’s voice sing “This is It”, they will never forget it. Michael Jackson was the self-proclaimed King of Pop and always gave out inspirational messages in his lyrics. Many of Michael Jackson's lyrics have positive messages, and through his music he was able to touch, move and inspire people worldwide. Michael Jackson influenced generations through his music and was able to reach a wide audience—both young and old. In the song “Black or White,” Michael Jackson’s lyrics talk about equality for everyone, and it did not matter if they were black or white. Other songs remind his audience about the importance of nature and talk about preserving the forest and being kind to nature. Not only that, the song “Man
The Beatles wrote hundreds of songs throughout their long career and many of which had the same main ideas in them. Those two ideas seem to standout in most of their songs, and they are the ideas of peace and love. They were so passionate about these two ideas especially world peace, that they became avid participants and leaders in the anti-war movement, against the War in Vietnam. It seemed strange ...
In Coldplay’s song, “Paradise”, the songwriters use exaggerative language, personification, and rhetorical techniques to tell the story of a little girl’s escape from the harshness and disappointment of reality. The listeners of this song are treated to a beautifully written story about a girl’s maturity through the struggles and disappointment that life has offered to her. Some of the most effective ways that the songwriters explain the plight of the girl are when they attach the listener emotionally with her plight through their use of exaggerated language and personification. Ultimately, the girl copes with her situation and shows signs of maturity; which, enforces the emotional connection that the audience feels with her.
The popularity of the Beatles proves time and time again to be nothing short of eternal. Like any great works of art, the Beatles’ records carried and still do carry an ageless brilliance that continues to captivate new generations of listeners. Their records are still heard heavily today on the radio, continue to sell in immense quantities, and are forever remembered through the covers done by pop and rock artists in present day.
How do they do it? Why does a Beatles or a Michael Jackson song capture a listener’s attention the way they do? What is their secret, what’s the formula? If all of us songwriters had the answers to these questions, we would all be a lot richer.