Free Essays on The Beatles

  1. Beatles vs. One Direction

    Beatles vs. One Direction ‘The new Beatles’ that’s what they’re called, I’m talking about One Direction (1D), the new popular boy band that make the heart of most girls beat out of their chest. But can you say 1D are the new Beatles? They have similarities but because the Beatles were popular before...

  2. The Beatles

     [The beatles] The Beatles were a rock band from Liverpool, England, formed in 1960 by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison. Although they were essentially a rock band, they experimented with many different genres. Their clothes and style made them trend-setters, at the...

  3. The Beatles

    The Beatles The Beatles were great – no – legendary. They transformed rock ‘n roll as we know it. Many argue that pop culture without Beatles would be like Romeo without Juliet, or the sky without stars. Yes, I’ll admit - these guys were BIG. Two of their most legendary albums were Rubber Soul...

  4. Beatles

    The Beatle haircut, also known as the mop-top (or moptop) —because of its resemblance to a mop—or Arthur amongst fans, is a mid-length hairstyle named after and popularised by the Beatles. It is a straight cut - collar-length at the back and over the ears at the sides, with a straight fringe (bangs)...

  5. The Beatles

    Beatles Midterm #1 Review John Lennon Mother- Julia Stanley, Father – Fred Lennon Met when they were 16 right out of an orphanage. Father worked on a boat never home. John was born Oct. 9th 1940 ( middle name Winston  after the prime minister of England) John was born when Fred was out at sea...

  6. The Beatles, the greatest most influential rock musicians in the world

    The Beatles The Beatles became known as the greatest most influential rock musicians in the world who consisted of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe, and Pete Best. The Beatles influenced society the greatest in the areas of culture and drug use. The come up of the Beatles’...

  7. The Ultimate Beatles Tribute

    WC: 660 M/W/F 10-10:50 CR#1 The Ultimate Beatles Tribute On January 15th, 2009, I attended a concert at McMahon Auditorium. The OKMusicShow presented Liverpool Legends, a group from Branson...

  8. Revolution - The Beatles

    Nicole Sing Along Expository on “Revolution” by The Beatles In 1968, John Lennon from the rock band The Beatles composed a song that caused a large amount of controversy during the Vietnam War. In the United States, there were many political rallies and protests against the U.S. government and military...

  9. A Hard Day's Night

    of the youth at the time, was and is still known as Beatlemania. In 1964, though the Beatles had completely launched their fame in Britain, they had not fully done so in America. As a result, the idea for the Beatles to star in their own movie came up, and Walter Shenson, an American producer, took over...

  10. John Lennon

    the day" by Buddy Holly. John came up with the name Beatles for the group. John had a vision when he was 12 years old - a man appeared on a  Flaming pie and said unto them 'From this day on you are Beatles with an 'A'. The Beatles were discovered by Brian Epstein in the Cavern, where they...

  11. Understanding the Meaning of Quality

    Take for example the group known as the Beatles. Are they considered a quality group just because of the fame and success that they achieved? Or is it more because of their thought and evolution of their sound, throughout their career as a band? The Beatles reached a high level of quality not only...

  12. History of Rock

    The Beatles She loves you- "She Loves You" is a song written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and recorded by the Beatles for release as a single in 1963. The single set and surpassed several records in the United Kingdom charts, and set a record in the United States as one of the five Beatles songs...

  13. Bettles Bio

    Introduction The Beatles were one of the most influential groups in the history of Rock n’ Roll. The Beatles music was a huge impact in the 1960’s and still influences the music of today. As a music lover, I can see the influence of the Beatles in music today. The Beatles have left a lasting impression...

  14. The Beatle's Hair

    that it was because of the Beatles’ groundbreaking music. Or, maybe it was due to their rebellious personalities. After all, they did eat chicken on stage in their early years. Even so, the real reason why they were so popular was probably because of their hair. The Beatles’ iconic hair immediately took...

  15. help

    product users and technical support Film and television[edit] Film[edit] Help! (film), a 1965 film directed by Richard Lester starring The Beatles Help (film), a 2010 Bollywood horror film The Help (film), a 2011 film adaptation of the Stockett novel Television[edit] Help (Australian TV...

  16. Help Me Please

    Did you know John Lennon and Paul McCartney grew up together and could play guitar by the time they were 10 years old? The two most popular Beatles have other similarities, too. However, they also have differences that influenced their music. Although they both grew up in Liverpool and worked well together...

  17. Similarities Between American and British Culture Through the Book the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

    an examination of pop culture, literature, such as Mark Haddon’s “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time”, and music, specifically The Beatles. Whether these elements of life are similar or different between the two nations, one can still learn a lot through the connections of the two places...

  18. Anthology 1

    The opening song for the first anthology sets a good mood for continuing with the video. “My Life” is a very moving song that portrays the love the Beatles’ members had for each other and how they always stuck together. The line, “But of all these friends and lovers, there is no one compares with you”...

  19. Tahahsd

    devoted Beatles fan.[citation needed] He has referenced them on more than one occasion at Keynotes and also was interviewed on a showing of a Paul McCartney concert. When asked about his business model on 60 Minutes, he replied:[citation needed] |“ |My model for business is The Beatles: They were...

  20. History of Rock and Roll

    Brenston and his Delta Cats introduced the idea of rock and roll to the American public. The genre of rock music changed when Led Zeppelin and The Beatles hit the scene later in time, because they incorporated influences from the 1950s and added their own unique ideas to create an original sound. Rock...

  21. outliers

    Unlike the fantasy version of any good rags to riches story, Gladwell dissects globally known names that include one of my favorite rock bands The Beatles, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, and Joseph Flom “ Mr. Takeover” Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom law firm to name a few. Unquestionably of ...

  22. Manson Family

    of the Bible and was particularly interested in the Book of Revelation. He would later proclaim to be the “fifth angel”, the other four being the Beatles. Manson’s preaching’s become more racial, fanatical and odd. He would have the family take LSD as a group and then he would start putting twisted...

  23. Buddy Holly

    granted the fact that music, just like everything else, took time to progress and form into the enjoyable form it is in now. Music pioneers such as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, and Buddy Holly all paved a pathway for the music industry. They were basically the founders of modern day rock and...

  24. jake bugg interview

    place for the last two years! It was really nice, almost like a dream. Who are your main influences? My main influences are Layne Staley, The Beatles, Oasis, Johnny Cash and Nell Young. I think that the influence of older artists really shines through in my music. How many guitars do you own in...

  25. Bob Dylan Legend Essay

    a living. This modesty, truth and desire to not what everyone wanted but what he wanted are some of he traits I respect him so much for. Even the Beatles loved Dylan and Dylan was going to be the inspiration for their greatest album Sgt Pepper’s lonely heart club band. It was soon after this that...

  26. Rock History

    26, 2009 Professor Makris UWA # 3 They arrived and there was about 50,000 people waiting for them at the airport screaming their heads off. The Beatles pretty much changed the American culture. Everyone wanted to be like them. People would start growing their hair out or even go and buy wigs to put...

  27. Frewdqdsxc

    Kids - MGMT Kids in Love - Mayday Parade Kill the Director - The Wombats Kiss and Tell - Justin Bieber (LOOLLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLO) If I Fell - The Beatles Lately - Plug in Stereo...

  28. The History and Influence of U2

    (McFliker 19). The Beatles were actually one of the biggest inspirations for Bono, the lead singer. He had actually wanted John Lennon to produce one of U2's albums (McFliker 20); however, that dream never became a reality. Even though U2 may have drawn many themes off of the Beatles, they were also...

  29. The Differences of Two Era’s

    such as Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, and Janis Joplin were very talented with the guitar. Other musical geniuses of an instrumental time were the Beatles. The Beatles could play all types of instruments that varied from the banjo, bass, guitar, drums, and John Lennon’s harmonica. Groovy people of the 60’s...

  30. Guns N Roses Historia (Kort)

    lista i flera veckor. Dessa album hade också flera hits, som till exempel: November Rain, Don’t Cry, Civil War, You Will Be Mine och en cover av The Beatles’ låt Live and Let Die. Men framgången varade inte förevigt, bandets popularitet minskade då det kom fram att samarbetet mellan medelmmarna i bandet...

  31. Album Analysis

    overdubs and Cobain finally agreed to do it because Cobain was a fan of John Lennon. This made the vocals in the song fuller and more powerful. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was an album which set a standard for concept albums. The album was...

  32. Wooden dagger or wooden paint pole

    musician, you probably know that transcription can also describe adapting a piece of music for different instruments, like a cello transcription of a Beatles song....

  33. Pest Apple

    and intellectual property obtained from third parties. The company might unknowingly encounter infringe issues with existing patents of others. Ø Beatles lawsuit against the company may negatively affect the company’s reputation. Ø The company has to comply with the environment regulations such as...

  34. My Mother - Essay 3

    for seventeen years, two months,…day and ….hours. I know her very well, and I had learned to love her since the day we first met. On the day the Beatles record the “Leave my Kittens Alone” on the sixth month of the Roman calendar in the year of the Dragon, my mother was born in Lawig, Lamut Ifugao....

  35. The Who Shocked Society

    of the greatest and most influential songs of the rock and roll genre in the mid 1960s. Such a list of bands would surely include names like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and the Beach Boys. However, if one were to look a little farther down the list they would come across a band called The Who....

  36. Grizfolk

    inspired by Bastille, but mostly by the more older bands from all different styles of music. Guitarist Fredrik Eriksson exclaims with much motive, “The Beatles, The Roots, Keith Urban, Justin Vernon and the Beastie Boys are some of our major influences in our music process.” Grizfolk claims to start out their...

  37. music meeyouzick

    to the mix here and there, but that’s really all I liked back then. Whether I was in the car, the house, or anywhere else there was sure to be some Beatles, Buddy Holly, or the Dubliners constantly playing somewhere in the background. At the time I didn’t care for that genre of music much, but now as I’m...

  38. Who Is Kendrick Lamar

    “Kendrick in life everybody cheats, and you just need to be with people that are true to you.” Kendrick grew up listening to various artist from The Beatles to Biggie Smalls. He wrote his first rap when he was 13 and kept going from there. In 2003, at the age of sixteen, Lamar released his first full-length...

  39. EDM Revolution

    Z and all of One Direction. To put this achievement into even greater perspective, he topped Tiger Woods, Simon Cowell, Ronaldo, Messi and matched Beatles legend Paul McCartney. The rest of the list is made up of other multi-millionaires including David Guetta ($30m), Avicii ($28m), Tiesto ($28m) with...

  40. An Abstract Concept of Love

    commonly reduced to a thought-terminating cliché, and there are a number of common proverbs regarding love, from Virgil's "Love conquers all" to The Beatles' "All you need is love." Bertrand Russell describes love as a condition of "absolute value," as opposed to relative value. Theologian Thomas Jay Oord...

  41. Steve Jobs

    Steve Jobs--Influences, Products, Besides fame and wealth, what do the Beatles and Steve Jobs have in common? Both of them named their own company Apple. In 1976, Steve Jobs founded "Apple" when he was twenty-one years old in his parents' garage. Today, Apple's stock is listed at $532.00 a share...

  42. Musicals

    Wagon Pal Joey Passing Strange Passion The People in the Picture The Pirate Queen Priscilla, Queen of the Desert Ragtime Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles Rebecca Redhead Riverdance Rock of Ages Rocky Ruthless Saturday Night Fever Scandalous The Scarlet Pimpernel School of Rock The Scottsboro...

  43. London Landmarks

    in 1871 by Queen Victoria and was called after her husband Prince Albert who had died ten years earlier. • It hosted the only gig in history where The Beatles and The Rolling Stones played on the same bill, and has also played host to such luminaries as Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Oasis, Cream and...

  44. Essay on Rolling Stones

    be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because they had a period where the band was fighting and it seemed like they were breaking up (Gale 263). The Beatles are one of the world’s greatest bands and they broke up and they are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The Rolling Stones just had a fight for a while...

  45. R Crumb on others

    so murderous put people off on the ideal of communism." THE BEATLES Robert: "Beatles? [heavy sigh] You know, back in the day, back in the '60s, I was involved in this group of people, this subculture, who just listened to the Beatles – Sgt. Peppers and that stuff – all the time. We used to get high...

  46. Kaleidoscope Eyes

    Scotland, the world has already been adamantly standing on Isaac Newton’s shoulders for more than 50 years. Newton is perhaps quite comparable to the Beatles for the youth. Newton had rocked the world like a legend that never dies, he made it in for the youth to pursue science. David had such a great...

  47. The 1960's V.S. Today

    The art and music scene was flourishing in the 1960s with its influence from the hippies. They were the culture that helped shaped the nation. The Beatles were known as the greatest rock band ever and influenced much of the youth to turn of their minds, relax, and float downstream. The sixties were the...

  48. Star

    Taylor Swift, 19, and Miley Cyrus, 16, sang a duet of Swift's "Fifteen." The 66-year-old Paul McCartney, with 40-year-old Dave Grohl on drums, sang the Beatles classic about a girl who "was just 17." Stevie Wonder performed with the Jonas Brothers and even a nine-months pregnant woman — the rapper M.I.A....

  49. Forest Gump Movie Review

    cheering in the movie. As 1970s came, the relationship between China and America was getting better with means of sending Ping-pong team. Leader of the Beatles, John Lennon was shot dead. Gump was so lucky that he visited China with the team, met Lennon in a TV show, saw president of the United States again...

  50. L'Eddie Izzard Talentueux!

    cameo appearance as the colorful Mr. Kite. Mr. Kite is the eccentric circus ringmaster who dreams of fame. Eddie gives an amusing rendition of the Beatles’ “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite” while adding a touch of his own eccentricity. In addition to his many films, Eddie has done some work on...

  51. Marketing Plan for Emi Music

    Table 2: Favourite Artists S.No. | Artist | % of Adults | S.No. | Artist | % of Adults | 1 | Abba | 27% | 7 | Elvis Presley | 14% | 2 | The Beatles | 26.6% | 8 | Celine Dion | 12.6% | 3 | Frank Sinatra | 19% | 9 | Michael Jackson | 10.7% | 4 | Madonna | 17.4% | 10 | Mozart | 10.1 % | 5 |...

  52. Crazes

    people, then quickly becomes popular everywhere. There are so many examples of CRAZES: In the 1960s there were the crazes: Being a hippie, The Beatles, Miniskirts. In the 1970s there were crazes such as: Disco Music, Charlie's Angels. In the 1980s there were many crazes, for example: Rubik's...

  53. Children of Men - a Review

    melting pot of different cultures. The background score by John Tavner is haunting in which he effectively utilizing classic English bands like the Beatles and opera during particular segments of the movie. The music brings with it some heavy emotion which will almost make you cry when you watch this movie...

  54. Huy

    Everly Brothers, and Elvis Presley became popular with the younger generation. In the 1960s Western pop music teen idols of the 1960s include The Beatles, The Rolling Stones. Other successful pop musicians of this era include Elvis Presley , Stevie Wonder and Peter, Paul & Mary. The 1960s also saw the...

  55. Area of Study 4

    sometime pakhawaj A drone – either a harmonium or a tanpura Solo instruments The sitaris the best known Indian instrument in the west. – when beatles used it on some of their hit singles. This is a long-necked plucked string instrument with movable fret and a gourd resonator. The number...

  56. Understanding Music

    type of voice production owing much to sophisticated use of amplification and simplification of instrumental technique. We should remember that the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and many other leading groups and individual performers from the early sixties onward based their music on the sound of electric...

  57. The Effects of Subcultures on the Broader American Culture

    rebelling against, what they perceived as an oppressive society. Although the government monitored the music industry, they still retaliated. The Beatles, for example, expressed their own drug use in their music using metaphors. I am The Walrus, was a confession of intravenous drug use. Lucy in the Sky...

  58. Advanced English

    drive the idea of studying Kabbalah from my mind. In vain. I succeeded on my own in finding myself a master for myself in the person of Moishe the Beatle.” (Wiesel 4). Elie seemed to need to have answers. Answers were what he sought out in the questions involving his religion. Elie is fifteen when...

  59. Annie Lebovitz

    artist, was obviously this one with John Lennon. It took place in 1980, photograph session was carried out for Rolling Stone magazine, artist from Beatles supposed to be on the cover of the next publication. First plan was to captured Lennon alone, but he asked to be photographed with his love, Joko Ono...

  60. Newer Ways of Reaching the Customers

    and UK. And there are reasons galore to thank its creator, Mark Zuckerberg. For one, Facebook is my lifeline to the world outside office. I’m 23, Beatles worshipper and an Internet junkie. I am online all the time, well almost. I don’t have a social life and I don’t want one. What I want is to meet people...