The Beatles E-Book

Mason Walker

• Herausgeber: Books on Demand
• Kategorie: Lebensstil
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 45

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

Can you answer the following questions? Approximately how many records did The Beatles sell? What was the name of the Liverpool bar where The Beatles played frequently in the early 1960´s? In which year did The Beatles give their first US live television performance? How much do you know about the Beatles? Are you good at doing quiz? Are you ready to take the challenge to test your intelligence? Here are 200 questions to test your knowledge (of course answers are provided)! How many of them can you answer? Maybe you would learn something from them.

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The Beatles

Questions

Answers

What is a quiz?

Facts you never know about quiz games

Which types are there?

Parlor games

TV Shows

Guessing games as activity

Quiz in magazines

Quiz shows on the radio

Quiz as a computer game

Quiz as an app

The Beatles

The Beatles are one of the most famous band of all times. The British beat and rock band achieved greater awareness in the 1960s. In total they sold more than 600 million recordings and this number makes them the most successful commercial band in history.

Everything started with the Liverpool student John Lennon who founded his band “The Quarrymen” in 1956. They played on private parties and school events. Due to John Lennon’s moody personality he could not keep any of his members longer than some months. The most important day in the history of “The Quarryman” was the 6th of July 1957, when Lennon got introduced to Paul McCartney who joined the band some days later. Soon McCartney and Lennon started to compose their own pieces. A year later a friend of McCartney visited a concert, his name was George Harrison. Of course as history tells, Harrison also joined the band.

They changed their name to “Johnny and the Moondogs” and later to the “The Silver Beatles”. Beatles represents a combination of the word beat and the word beetles. Once asked why Beatles, John Lennon explained: “Many people ask what are Beatles? Why Beatles? Ugh, Beatles, how did the name arrive? So we will tell you. It came in a vision – a man appeared on a flaming pie and said unto them ‘From this day on you are Beatles with an «A»’. ‘Thank you, Mister Man’, they said, thanking him.” From 1960 on they abandoned the word Silver and from this time on called themselves only The Beatles.

In the summer of the same year they had their first performance in Hamburg together with two more members: Stuart Sutcliffe and Peter Best. They continued performing every night in the strip club “Indra” in the red light district of St. Pauli. They adapted to the conditions: sex, drugs, alcohol and violence. In Hamburg they also met the photographers Astrid Kirchherr and Jürgen Vollmer and the artist Klaus Voormann who shaped the later appearance of The Beatles such as their famous moptop.

Due to disturbance of the peace “Indra” had to be closed and they started playing in the “Kaiserkeller” where they met the drummer Ringo Starr who was playing in another band from Liverpool, Rory Storm & the Hurricanes. By the end of November they had to leave Hamburg as Harrison was still 17 years and not of full age yet and McCartney’s supposedly arson attack. By the end of December McCartney took over the role of the bassist. After several performances all across the UK and also Germany, George Martin offered them a record deal in 1962. Shortly before they accepted they changed the drummer from Peter Best to Ringo Starr and The Beatles as we know them today with Lennon, Harrison, Starr and McCartney were born.

On 5th of October 1962 the first official single “Love me Do” was released in Great Britain. Through their commercial success in radio and TV programmes they managed to perform in broader areas not just around Liverpool. The more popular they got, the more they had to struggle with the enthusiasm of especially their female fans. Public performances became a mass event, a lot of their gigs they could only reach and leave with a police escort. The final breakthrough marks their performance on 13th of October 1963 at the popular “Sunday Night at the London Palladium” show with 15 million TV viewers. The world was infected by the “Beatlemania”.

After a short concert tour in Sweden, they went for a huge concert tour through all of Great Britain. This lead to hysterical screeching women and heavy police presence. In Birmingham they dressed as police officers on their own to escape their fans, in Plymouth they fled through the canal system. At the yearly Royal Variety Performance they performed in front of the queen mother. John Lennon introduced their last piece Twist and Shout with the words: “For our last number I’d like to ask your help: Would the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you’ll just rattle your jewellery!”

With “I want to hold your hand” they finally reached success in the US. In February 1964 they performed five pieces in the famous Ed Sullivan show; 73.7 million viewers followed the live show. In April The Beatles filled the five first places of the USA Single charts, in Australia even the first six. Additional they had seven more songs in the US-Top 100. They started their first world tour which was a great success.

With songs such as “I want to hold your hand”, “Can’t buy me love”, “Help”, “All you need is love”, “Hey Jude”, “Yesterday”, “Let it Be”, “Yellow Submarine” and much more they wrote music history. In 1970 however several disputes and personal matters led to the splitting of the Beatles.