Beatles

American

[beet-lz] / ˈbit lz /

noun

(used with a plural verb) the, British rock-'n'-roll group (1962–70) including George Harrison (1943–2001), John (Winston) Lennon (1940–80), Paul (James) McCartney (born 1942), and Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey ) (born 1940).

Beatles Cultural

A rock 'n' roll singing group from Liverpool, England, that was phenomenally popular in the middle and late 1960s. The intense devotion of the group's fans, especially the hysterical screaming that the Beatles provoked in large crowds of teenagers, was called Beatlemania. The four Beatles were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. Among their many popular songs, most of which were written by Lennon and McCartney, were “I Want to Hold Your Hand” and “Hey, Jude.”

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His popularity faded in the second half the 1960s as bands like The Beatles came into fashion, but it revived in the 1970s with easy-listening favorites like "Laughter in the Rain" and "Bad Blood."

From Barron's

“I had to look inside myself, look at my world and find something that wasn’t the Beatles,” he says in “Paul McCartney: Man on the Run,” a new documentary directed by Morgan Neville.

From The Wall Street Journal

In April 1970, Paul McCartney announced The Beatles’ disbandment to a stunned world.

From Salon

"And this is one he wrote," he said, launching into a cover of The Beatles' 1968 classic Revolution.

From BBC

“We won the war,” the 20-year-old Lennon taunted the Beatles’ audience in Hamburg.

From The Wall Street Journal

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