The Beatles

класса Тимченко Борис, Марковская Валерия, Руководитель:
учитель английского языка Засыпкина Татьяна

Александровна,

учитель английского языка, MБОУ «Гимназия №5 города Белгорода»

together.

They have something common in music and they wear the

same clothes.

They think alike.

Their ideas are alike because they listen to the same type of music.

the 1960s its characteristic musical flavor and had a profound

influence on the course of popular music, equaled by few performers.

James Paul McCartney, June 18, 1942; and George Harrison, Feb.

25, 1943; and the drummer Ringo Starr, Richard Starkey, July 7, 1940, were all born and raised in Liverpool.

group called The Quarrymen.

Beatles, in 1959, and Starr joined them in 1962. As

The Beatles, they developed a local following in Liverpool clubs, and their first recordings, "Love Me Do" (1962) and "Please Please Me" (1963), quickly made them Britain's top rock group.

singers Chuck BERRY and Elvis PRESLEY, but they infused a

hackneyed musical form with freshness, vitality, and wit.

in 1964 marked the beginning of thephenomenon known as "Beatlemania"

in the United States. The Beatles' first U.S. tour aroused a universal mob adulation.

their records sold in the millions.

Night (1964), was received enthusiastically by a wide audience that

included many who had never before listened to rock music.

major creative forces),

to play their own music.

extraordinary variety of songs: the childishly simple "Yellow Submarine"; the

bitter social commentary of "Eleanor Rigby"; parodies of earlier pop styles; new electronic sounds; and compositions that were scored for cellos, violins, trumpets, and sitars, as well as for conventional guitars and drums.

Revolver (1966) as the apex of Beatle art, although Sergeant

Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), perhaps the first rock album designed thematically as a single musical entity, is more generally considered their triumph.

their final album, Let It Be, to pursue individual careers.

in New York City. In 1991, Paul McCartney's classical composition

Liverpool Oratorio was performed to some acclaim in Britain and the United States.

look as though they're here to stay Oh, I believe

in yesterday Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be There's a shadow hanging over me oh, yesterday came suddenly Why she had to go I don't know, she wouldn't say I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play Now I need a place to hide away oh, I believe in yesterday Why she had to go I don't know, she wouldn't say I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play Now I need a place to hide away oh, I believe in yesterday, Mm