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In just a couple of years from producing their first demo record in 1963 they became the most famous musical men on the planet.
Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr are still to this day part of a music legend that has transcended time and decades of changing fashions.
Forty years on from their first appearances at the now famous Cavern Club in Liverpool their collective music continues to play around the world. Where other trends of music from artistes from the 70’s and 80’s have now dropped off the radar, Beatles songs still remain classics.
The original line up included popular drummer Pete Best who was later replaced by Ringo after the rest of band decided Best wasn’t good enough. Years later Lennon admitted that getting manager Brian Epstein to sack him was ‘cowardly’
A young Stuart Sutcliffe, who also made up the original band, died tragically at the age of twenty-two from still unknown medical problems. His death, which had a profound effect on the boys, occurred the day before the group flew to Hamburg for a now famous two-month stint at The Star Club. During their first gig they shared sets with Little Richard and Gene Vincent.
When Svengali Brian Epstein first glimpsed The Beatles playing at the Cavern in 1961 he wasn’t overly impressed. The four members were dressed in black leather jeans and leather jackets and looked completely out of control.
“They were not very tidy and not very clean” he recalled. “They were the sort of lads I had always avoided at school, the trouble makers who didn’t give a damn about anyone”
But despite the crude manners of the group, eating, smoking while playing and pretending to hit each other, Epstein knew they had what we now commonly describe as the X Factor. They only played five songs, but what clinched it for Epstein was when John announced a song that both he and Paul had written. The track ‘Hello Little Girl’ was enough to convince Epstein that the boys could write as well as play songs.
When Epstein signed the group, he immediately raised their wages for playing at the Cavern. He was an experienced manager fighting in a competitive industry. Liverpool alone had three hundred rock groups all vying for a record deal. But Epstein knew that in order to get record companies to take notice he’d have to get the lads to clean up their act.
Now that Brian was their full time manager the lads took notice, ditching their scruffy attire for suits, sharp haircuts and a more professional attitude towards their on-stage performance. Eventually, after countless auditions and having been turned down by every record producer in the country, they signed – in what became known as one of the stingiest deals in history – with Parlophone Records.
Beatlemania didn’t take long to grip the imagination of millions of young people. After leaving the Cavern Club they found themselves invited to play the Palladium, The Royal Albert Hall, The Royal Variety Show, appear with Morecombe & Wise, give a spare hit to The Rolling Stones, take the US by storm in 1964 on the Ed Sullivan Show and record the smash hit ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand’ – all within one rollercoaster year!
Read More:http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biographies/the-beatles.html
Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr are still to this day part of a music legend that has transcended time and decades of changing fashions.
Forty years on from their first appearances at the now famous Cavern Club in Liverpool their collective music continues to play around the world. Where other trends of music from artistes from the 70’s and 80’s have now dropped off the radar, Beatles songs still remain classics.
The original line up included popular drummer Pete Best who was later replaced by Ringo after the rest of band decided Best wasn’t good enough. Years later Lennon admitted that getting manager Brian Epstein to sack him was ‘cowardly’
A young Stuart Sutcliffe, who also made up the original band, died tragically at the age of twenty-two from still unknown medical problems. His death, which had a profound effect on the boys, occurred the day before the group flew to Hamburg for a now famous two-month stint at The Star Club. During their first gig they shared sets with Little Richard and Gene Vincent.
When Svengali Brian Epstein first glimpsed The Beatles playing at the Cavern in 1961 he wasn’t overly impressed. The four members were dressed in black leather jeans and leather jackets and looked completely out of control.
“They were not very tidy and not very clean” he recalled. “They were the sort of lads I had always avoided at school, the trouble makers who didn’t give a damn about anyone”
But despite the crude manners of the group, eating, smoking while playing and pretending to hit each other, Epstein knew they had what we now commonly describe as the X Factor. They only played five songs, but what clinched it for Epstein was when John announced a song that both he and Paul had written. The track ‘Hello Little Girl’ was enough to convince Epstein that the boys could write as well as play songs.
When Epstein signed the group, he immediately raised their wages for playing at the Cavern. He was an experienced manager fighting in a competitive industry. Liverpool alone had three hundred rock groups all vying for a record deal. But Epstein knew that in order to get record companies to take notice he’d have to get the lads to clean up their act.
Now that Brian was their full time manager the lads took notice, ditching their scruffy attire for suits, sharp haircuts and a more professional attitude towards their on-stage performance. Eventually, after countless auditions and having been turned down by every record producer in the country, they signed – in what became known as one of the stingiest deals in history – with Parlophone Records.
Beatlemania didn’t take long to grip the imagination of millions of young people. After leaving the Cavern Club they found themselves invited to play the Palladium, The Royal Albert Hall, The Royal Variety Show, appear with Morecombe & Wise, give a spare hit to The Rolling Stones, take the US by storm in 1964 on the Ed Sullivan Show and record the smash hit ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand’ – all within one rollercoaster year!
Read More:http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biographies/the-beatles.html
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