There are many revolutionary people that I admire, from religious people that fought for human rights like Martin Luther king Jr. to activists like Gandhi, and philosophers like Emile Durkheim. Scientist like Peter Higgs, that discovered the Higgs boson particle, also referred as the God particle (particle that creates mass). All of these people have changed the world in a way that nobody at that time could have imagined, and they all made a big impact in the world. But sometimes it’s not only one person that can make an impact like Martin Luther King Jr. or Gandhi, sometimes it can be a group of people like a band of music or something, like the Beatles.
In the summer of 1957 Paul McCartney and John Lennon meet. McCartney was invited to join John Lennon’s band “The Quarry Man” after he auditioned. Two years later the band broke up in the early 1959. Like most bands, The Beatles successes was not immediate, in the year of 1960 is when they start to become the Beatles. In the beginning the band consisted of five teenage boys, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Pete Best (drummer) and Stuart Sutcliffe. The band had an identity crisis, meaning they changed their name more than once, from the “Silver Beetles”, “Long John and the Beatles”, to ”The Beet Brothers”, till finally going with The Beatles. Sutcliffe left the band after 18 months to study. And then they were four. When they make their first trip to Hamburg, Germany, although it was not successful, the second trip was. The Beatles returned to Liverpool In June of 1961 and more people would go to see them perform. Even though more people would go see them and they would actually have and audience, the band was refused by well known recording companies. It was Parlophone records (a subsidiary of EMI) that signed The Beatles. In 1962 Pete Best was replaced by Ringo Starr because the producer didn’t like Pete Best and also because Pete was not in the best terms with the other guys. “Love me do” was their first single and was released in September of 1962, eventually reaching # 17 in the UK, it would be almost two years until the song was released and became the #1 hit in the US. In August of 1965 the Beatles gave a concert in the New York’s Shea Stadium, and more than 55 thousand people attended that concert, at that time that is the most people ever to attend a single concert. Two months later, the fab four became member of the British Empire. Usually this honor is given to military and government official and its one of the highest honors to be given in the UK. The band released a couple of more albums, and made a movie called “Help!” In 1966 John Lennon commented in an interview that “the Beatles are more popular than Jesus”. 1969 was a difficult time for the Beatles. In September of that year John Lennon decided to leave the band. The band’s break up was announced in April 1970 a month before their final album “Let It Be” was released, and the band known as the Beatles officially came to an end. The Beatles, the best Rock n’ Roll band in its time, and safe to say ever to exist. And their influence will continue as each generation listen to the music that that impacted the world and changed it.
I believe that music it’s a big part of life, without music I think people would be really unhappy, music moves us and it influences us, music could be powerful if we are open to it. The Beatles were a big impact in the world, and they have influenced people in ways never dreamed of. They were the first to wear long hair the mop-long hair cut as people would put it, at first the youth in America would laugh at it but later they would cut their hair just like the Beatles. And its goes the same with their clothes, they changed the way people dressed. But I believe that their influence is deeper than that. The Beatles were all about love and peace. Their constant preaching about peace and love may have helped to bring to an end the Vietnam War. Even though the Beatles were all about love and peace they weren’t perfect, some songs were about drugs like Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds that stands for LSD, and some people, took that the wrong way. But the important thing is that people were reacting, it didn’t matter if it’s in the right or wrong way, but the fact is that the people were reacting, to the Beatles. And they still are.
When I was out shopping for school stuff at Wall Mart, I wanted to buy my notebooks of the Beetles theme, and when I got to the section where the notebook are I hear a 12 year old kid, telling his father, “oh dad look, the Beatles!!” and I hear him singing one of the Beatles songs, “Hey Jude” (I think it was), I was amazed. Because even till this day, the young people (even kids of every generation listen to the Beatles, even if it’s the minority of Puerto Rico or the majority of the USA that listen to the fab four, but the Beatles are still alive, because of the impact and influence they had on our parent generations all over the world.
Reference:
http://classicrock.about.com/od/bandsandartists/p/beatles.htm
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/the-beatles/biography
http://history1900s.about.com/od/entertainers/p/beatles.htm
In the summer of 1957 Paul McCartney and John Lennon meet. McCartney was invited to join John Lennon’s band “The Quarry Man” after he auditioned. Two years later the band broke up in the early 1959. Like most bands, The Beatles successes was not immediate, in the year of 1960 is when they start to become the Beatles. In the beginning the band consisted of five teenage boys, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Pete Best (drummer) and Stuart Sutcliffe. The band had an identity crisis, meaning they changed their name more than once, from the “Silver Beetles”, “Long John and the Beatles”, to ”The Beet Brothers”, till finally going with The Beatles. Sutcliffe left the band after 18 months to study. And then they were four. When they make their first trip to Hamburg, Germany, although it was not successful, the second trip was. The Beatles returned to Liverpool In June of 1961 and more people would go to see them perform. Even though more people would go see them and they would actually have and audience, the band was refused by well known recording companies. It was Parlophone records (a subsidiary of EMI) that signed The Beatles. In 1962 Pete Best was replaced by Ringo Starr because the producer didn’t like Pete Best and also because Pete was not in the best terms with the other guys. “Love me do” was their first single and was released in September of 1962, eventually reaching # 17 in the UK, it would be almost two years until the song was released and became the #1 hit in the US. In August of 1965 the Beatles gave a concert in the New York’s Shea Stadium, and more than 55 thousand people attended that concert, at that time that is the most people ever to attend a single concert. Two months later, the fab four became member of the British Empire. Usually this honor is given to military and government official and its one of the highest honors to be given in the UK. The band released a couple of more albums, and made a movie called “Help!” In 1966 John Lennon commented in an interview that “the Beatles are more popular than Jesus”. 1969 was a difficult time for the Beatles. In September of that year John Lennon decided to leave the band. The band’s break up was announced in April 1970 a month before their final album “Let It Be” was released, and the band known as the Beatles officially came to an end. The Beatles, the best Rock n’ Roll band in its time, and safe to say ever to exist. And their influence will continue as each generation listen to the music that that impacted the world and changed it.
I believe that music it’s a big part of life, without music I think people would be really unhappy, music moves us and it influences us, music could be powerful if we are open to it. The Beatles were a big impact in the world, and they have influenced people in ways never dreamed of. They were the first to wear long hair the mop-long hair cut as people would put it, at first the youth in America would laugh at it but later they would cut their hair just like the Beatles. And its goes the same with their clothes, they changed the way people dressed. But I believe that their influence is deeper than that. The Beatles were all about love and peace. Their constant preaching about peace and love may have helped to bring to an end the Vietnam War. Even though the Beatles were all about love and peace they weren’t perfect, some songs were about drugs like Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds that stands for LSD, and some people, took that the wrong way. But the important thing is that people were reacting, it didn’t matter if it’s in the right or wrong way, but the fact is that the people were reacting, to the Beatles. And they still are.
When I was out shopping for school stuff at Wall Mart, I wanted to buy my notebooks of the Beetles theme, and when I got to the section where the notebook are I hear a 12 year old kid, telling his father, “oh dad look, the Beatles!!” and I hear him singing one of the Beatles songs, “Hey Jude” (I think it was), I was amazed. Because even till this day, the young people (even kids of every generation listen to the Beatles, even if it’s the minority of Puerto Rico or the majority of the USA that listen to the fab four, but the Beatles are still alive, because of the impact and influence they had on our parent generations all over the world.
Reference:
http://classicrock.about.com/od/bandsandartists/p/beatles.htm
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/the-beatles/biography
http://history1900s.about.com/od/entertainers/p/beatles.htm
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