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Fact No. 5037

In 1966, in Texas, religious groups staged a public burning of Beatles records in response to a phrase that John Lennon said in an interview: Lennon said that “Christianity is in decline, and the Beatles have become more popular than Jesus Christ.”

On Saturday, August 13, 1966, one of the first record bonfires was held in Longview, Texas, hosted by local radio station KLUE.

The next day, August 14, the tower of this radio station was struck by lightning. The lightning strike damaged much of the equipment and sent the news director to the hospital.

Fact No. 5096

In 2009, a specialization called "The Beatles, Popular Music and Society" was opened at Liverpool's Hope University. The curriculum states the history of the group in the context of world history. The training consists of four 12-week semesters, and upon completion the student defends a thesis and receives a master's degree. "Thousands of books have been written about The Beatles, but there is not a single serious scientific study among them. Now that forty years have passed since the breakup of the group and passions on this matter have subsided, it’s time to start studying The Beatles. Liverpool is the best place for this, because all the musicians were born and raised here,” comments Michael Broken, senior lecturer in the Popular Music course at Hope.

Source: article by Pavel Filippov, Rolling Stone magazine, April 2009

Fact No. 5514

British scientists have proven: the British loved the Beatles because they sang about... the weather. This is what The Telegraph claims, citing the findings of experts from Oxford and Southampton universities. Scientists examined 308 Beatles compositions and found that weather was mentioned in 48 works; Thus, the share of songs about weather in their work was 16%.

People in the UK love to talk about the weather, and the Beatles were no exception: they wrote the most songs on the topic among more than 900 authors and performers whose work was studied in this scientific work.

The study was published by Weather magazine. Experts analyzed texts, musical genres, tonality and connections with certain weather phenomena. It turned out that out of the 500 greatest songs of all time (according to Rolling Stone magazine), 7% of the songs are about the weather. Of the 190 songs, 86 are sung about the sun, in 74 cases about rain. The Beatles' “Here Comes The Sun” is also mentioned there: the authors were inspired by the first sunny spring day after a long, cold winter.

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(“The Beatles”, IPA: [ðə ˈbiː.tlz]; separately the members of the ensemble are called “The Beatles”, they are also called the “Fab Four” [English Fab Four] and the “Fab Four”) - a British rock band from Liverpool, founded in 1960, which included John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. Stuart Sutcliffe, Pete Best and Jimmy Nicol also performed in the group at various times. Most of The Beatles' compositions were co-authored and signed by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. The group's discography includes 13 official studio albums, published in 1963-1970, and 211 songs.

Starting by imitating the classics of American rock and roll of the 1950s, The Beatles came to their own style and sound. The Beatles had a significant influence on rock music and are recognized by experts as one of the most successful groups of the 20th century, both creatively and commercially. Many famous rock musicians admit that they became such under the influence of the songs of The Beatles. Since the release of the single "Please Please Me / Ask Me Why" in 1963, the group began its ascent to success, giving rise to a global phenomenon - Beatlemania. The four became the first British group whose records gained popularity and first place in the US charts, and with them began the worldwide recognition of British groups, as well as the “Liverpudlian” (Merseybeat) sound of rock music. The band's musicians and their producer and sound engineer George Martin are responsible for innovative developments in the field of sound recording, combining various styles, including symphonic and psychedelic music, as well as filming video clips.

THE BEATLES

(English: The Beatles) - an English vocal and instrumental quartet, undoubtedly the most popular musical ensemble of the 1960s. Ensemble members - John Lennon (October 9, 1940 - December 8, 1980), Paul McCartney (b. June 18, 1942), George Harrison (b. February 25, 1943) and Ringo Starr (real name Richard Starkey, b. July 7, 1940) - natives of Liverpool and people from a proletarian environment. The Beatles (Lennon, McCartney and Harrison on guitars and vocals, Starr on drums) created a style characterized by loud sound (achieved by using electrically amplified instruments) and a pronounced beat (rhythmic pulsation).

The ensemble was born in 1956 during joint performances by Lennon and McCartney, who were soon joined by Harrison. Drummer Peter Best played with them for two years, but Starr replaced him in 1962. The name "Beatles" became the name of the group, displacing other names: "Quarriman", "Moon Dogs", "Moonshiners" and "Silver Beatles". The punning name of the quartet, which evokes associations with the name of an insect (beetle - “beetle”) and the designation of rhythmic pulsation (beat), owes its birth to both Lennon’s witty invention and Buddy Holly’s group “Crickets”.

At first, the Beatles, like other Liverpool groups, performed in small clubs. Their music was not original: a traditional mixture of British and American rhythms - rock and roll, skiffle (improvisational music performed by English amateur artists on unusual instruments: washboard, children's pipe, square guitar, etc.) and a simple variety of jazz 1920-1930s, which was the basis of rock and roll and skiffle. But the main attention of the public was attracted by the young performers themselves. The teenagers really liked the mischievous wits of Lennon and McCartney, the authors of most of the ensemble’s songs, the sad clown Starr, who loved rings and therefore chose the pseudonym “Ringo,” and the quiet, poker-faced Harrison, the lead guitarist who composed several Beatles hits.

In 1961, Brian Epstein, a young record dealer, became their manager. He began by changing their image (in particular, expensive formal suits appeared instead of leather jackets). After the Beatles performed at the London Palladium in 1963, they became famous throughout the country, and a sensational success on American television a year later brought them international fame.

In the films A Hard Day's Night (1964) and Help! (1965), the cinematic fantasies of American director Richard Lester, combined with the Beatles' inherent desire for irony and farce, created an atmosphere close to the comedies of the Marx Brothers In these far from sentimental films, there was also room for a skillfully made sentimental hit (for example, the song I want to hold your hand) - here Lennon and McCartney were simply virtuosos.

The album Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, released in 1967, showed that the Beatles had entered a time of musical maturity. Apparently, this was the first rock album based on a certain a cross-cutting theme; it commented with gentle irony on life in a modern industrial society - the conflict between fathers and children, the influence of drugs, the culture of the middle class. Melodic songs are marked by a clear rhythmic pattern and innovative richness of the arrangement. Original electronic noises were used. The sitar, an Indian string instrument, was used. Harrison took sitar lessons from the famous Ravi Shankar). The imagination of the arranger and conductor George Martin emerged, and the guidance of manager B. Epstein, who from 1963 until his death in 1967 was a co-author of their success, was discerned.

The album Sergeant Pepper proved that the Beatles were a phenomenal phenomenon, and not a one-day sensation that arose on the crest of Beatlemania. Experimenting with classical, eastern, and electronic music, the Beatles brought a vibrant, questing spirit to popular music while expanding their fan base to include young intellectuals and businessmen. The list of Beatles hits is quite extensive: Michelle, Yesterday, Eleanor Rigby, Help! (Help!), Nowhere Man, A Day in the Life, Norwegian Furniture, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, Yellow Submarine ), Penny Lane, Strawberry Fields, The Fool on the Hill, Hey Jude! (Hey Jude).

In addition to joint participation in recordings, concert performances, and films, two members of the ensemble, Lennon and McCartney, were engaged in individual creativity. Lennon wrote the books In His Own Write (1964) and A Spaniard In the Works (1965) - collections of prose and poetry with intricate puns. McCartney, remaining in line with purely musical creativity, wrote the music for the film The Family Way (1967). The Beatles' last album, Let It Be, was released in 1970. That same year, the group broke up, and each of the ensemble members went their own way. Lennon released several albums in collaboration with his wife, artist Yoko Ono. In 1980, he was shot and killed by one of his fans in New York.

The three remaining Beatles reunited in 1995 to record The Beatles Anthology, a two-CD album featuring previously unreleased studio recordings and live performances. Of particular interest in this edition was the “new” Beatles song “Free as a Bird,” where McCartney, Harrison and Starr superimposed their voices and instrumental accompaniment on a working recording made by Lennon shortly before his death. After this edition, two more anthologies were published (both in 1996), and the second also included another “new” song, Real Love, in which the three Beatles narrated Lennon’s archival recording.

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