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The Beatles
- The BeatlesThe Beatles formed in Liverpool in 1960, and within four years an estimated 73 million Americans watched four young men from northern England play on a…
- Top Ten ClubThe Top Ten Club opened its doors on the 31st of October 1960 at Reeperbahn 136, in Hamburg's St. Pauli district. Its founder was Peter Eckhorn, born on the…
- Cultural impact of the BeatlesThe Beatles hold a record that no other act in history has matched: between February 1964 and July 1970, they had the top-selling single in the United States…
- Astrid KirchherrAstrid Kirchherr was born on the 20th of May 1938 in Hamburg, Germany. Her father had been an executive for the German branch of Ford Motor Company before he…
- Northern SongsNorthern Songs Ltd was the company that owned the most famous songbook in the world, and for most of its life, the men who wrote the songs did not control it.
- Tony BarrowTony Barrow stood in the south Lancashire suburb of Crosby during the late 1950s. He presented jazz bands and skiffle-folk groups at local dance halls across…
- Apple RecordsApple Records was founded in 1968 by the four members of the Beatles, and its origin story begins with a painting. Paul McCartney had become an admirer of…
- The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan ShowEd Sullivan stood at London's Heathrow Airport on the 31st of October 1962. He watched a crowd of 1,500 fans wait for the band to return from Sweden.
- Jimmie NicolJames George Nicol stood on a rostrum at the KB Hallen in Copenhagen on the 4th of June 1964. He wore a suit altered to fit his frame and sported a moptop…
- SeltaebSeltaeb was a company whose name told you everything, if you knew how to read it: Beatles, spelled backwards. Set up in 1963 by a Chelsea socialite named…
- The Beatles' rooftop concertOn the 30th of January 1969, the Beatles performed a concert from the rooftop of their Apple Corps headquarters at 3 Savile Row.