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History of the Beatles

  • The Beatles timelineThe Beatles were a rock group from Liverpool, England, and their story spans a timeline so vast that chroniclers have needed to map it decade by decade from…
  • The Beatles at Shea StadiumThe Beatles at Shea Stadium captures a single night that changed what a rock concert could be. On the 15th of August 1965-55,600 people packed into a New…
  • The Beatles in HamburgThe Beatles in Hamburg is a story that begins not with fame, but with a storeroom next to a cinema toilet, a bucket of cold water, and a Nazi salute…
  • The Beatles in IndiaIn February 1968, four young men from Liverpool crossed the River Ganges on foot, walked up a jungle hill, and disappeared behind the locked gates of a…
  • Break-up of the BeatlesOn the 20th of August 1969, all four Beatles gathered at EMI Studios to record the closing track of Abbey Road. The session that produced "The End" was…
  • Magical Mystery Tour (film)Magical Mystery Tour arrived on British television screens on Boxing Day, the 26th of December 1967, and almost immediately became the Beatles' first…
  • The Beatles' Decca auditionThe Beatles' Decca audition took place on the 1st of January 1962, in a studio less than a mile from the building that would later become Abbey Road Studios.
  • BeatlemaniaBeatlemania gripped Britain in the autumn of 1963, when 15 million people watched four young men from Liverpool perform on the UK's top variety show and a…
  • British InvasionIn the late 1950s, American rock and blues musicians became popular with British youth. This rebellious tone and image sparked a cultural shift across the…
  • The Beatles' recording sessionsThe Beatles' recording sessions span from a rented afternoon at Phillips' Sound Recording Services in Liverpool in the spring or summer of 1958 to a reunion…
  • The QuarrymenThe Quarrymen began in Liverpool in 1956, when a teenager named John Lennon decided to start a skiffle group with his school friends.
  • Lennon–McCartneyLennon-McCartney began not in a recording studio, but at a church fête on the 6th of July 1957, when a fifteen-year-old boy played Eddie Cochran's "Twenty…
  • The Beatles' rooftop concertThe Beatles' rooftop concert began at around 12:30 pm on the 30th of January 1969, on top of a building at 3 Savile Row in central London.