Many people ask what are Beatles? <br /><br />Why Beatles? <br /><br />Ugh, Beatles, how did the name arrive? <br /><br />So we will tell you. <br /><br />It came in a vision -- a man appeared in a flaming pie and said unto them, <br /><br />"From this day on you are Beatles with an A." <br /><br />Thank you, Mister Man, they said, thanking him. <br /><br />-- <a href="http://www.imeem.com/groups/_Bh1virn/forums/lfoqIogH/20vIG7L7/john-lennon/">John Lennon</a><br /><br /><br />The <a href="http://www.imeem.com/artists/the_beatles/">Beatles</a> are an English rock band from Liverpool ( say it like this: LIVER-POO-IL ), or way north of London, whose members were <br /> <a href="http://www.imeem.com/artists/john_lennon/">John Lennon,</a> <a href="http://www.imeem.com/artists/paul_mccartney/">Paul McCartney,</a> <a href="http://www.imeem.com/artists/george_harrison/">George Harrison,</a> and <a href="http://www.imeem.com/artists/ringo_starr/">Ringo Starr.</a><br /><br />Growing up dockside of Liverpool, they listened to a lot of rock and roll records from the states and learned early on how to shake their booties <br />and play their guitars at the same time, thus distinguishing themselves profoundly from other British pop acts of the day. <br /><br />The Beatles began as a small struggling band of smirking scousers that endured adversity and played tirelessly in bars, clubs, and lounges around Europe in the late 1950s and very early 1960s. <br /><br />After ascenting to freakish heights of fame in the UK in 1963, they proceeded to do the same in the United States in 1964, leading the mid-1960s musical 'British Invasion' there.<br /><br />With this, the band embarked on a virtually perpetual and bone-grinding schedule of international touring beginning in 1964 and ending abruptly with the year 1966. In this short time they performed before ever-growing and record-breaking sized audiences in arenas and sport stadiums wherein music performance of any kind had never before been heard. (It has been frequently noted that, owing to the relentless roar of the crowds in attendance, when the Beatles finished their shows in these venues, music still hadn't been heard in them.)<br /><br />This, all the while maintaining recording sessions in London that consistently yielded two albums per year with countless 'singles' (songs deemed by the band as "too good" for the albums) released independently as a-side/b-sides on 7" 45 rpm records.<br /><br />They are now frequently cited as the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed band in modern history -- blah, blah, blah, -- <br />with innovative music and a cultural impact that helped define the 1960s and redefine the business and the world of popular music itself, etc. <br /><br />The Beatles exploded into a new world pop scene of their own creation, initially packaged as innocent, novel, and well scrubbed teeny bopperism delivered to the world with all the technical and production prowess of Britain's EMI <br />recording facility and their gifted record producer in EMI's employ, <a href="http://www.imeem.com/groups/_Bh1virn/photo/NtXSYU2a6b/">George Martin.</a><br /><br />From the beginning and increasingly, the group's style and public statements, in addition to their original music, made them unprecedented trend-setters as well as lightning rods amidst some of the more overwrought tempests of their time. Their growing social awareness saw their influence extend into the social and cultural upheavals for which the 1960s have, in no small part, been remembered. <br /><br />The group's uncanny ability to simultaneously reflect everything hip and happening, artistically absorb and refract the momentous upheavals of their time, while also casually exploring and commenting on the most familiar and mundane aspects of life as they observed it resulted in a body of original music that has remained as compelling as it was in its earliest release.<br /><br />Although their initial musical style was rooted in 1950s rock and roll and homegrown Mersyside skiffle, the group explored an extraordinary variety of musical styles, both recorded and in live performance, in a professional span of just a dozen years ending in early 1970. After the band's break-up, all four members embarked upon solo careers indicative of their individual development as artists, entertainers, and activists that had begun within the former group. <br /><br />The last rock and roll act in black and white and the first one in glorious living color, they mixed every song they recorded twice, for the mono <br /> or stereo playback options -- pretty good band, <br /> pop legend, world icons, laughing avatars of soft power and cultural transformation, the unlikely economic saviours of a pared-down Home Office, n'so on . . .<br /><br />And so, here's music and history and mythology (anti-mythology, for the benefit of Billy Shears) and lore and fans everybody -- and with gratitude and respect for their achievement. <br /><br />If you get the Beatles, then this group is for you . . .<br /><br />. . . and hey -- could be good . . . http://www.imeem.com/groups/_Bh1virn,beatles/ Delta 0 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Big Deal Book Store bigdealbooks.com Streetlab http://www.imeem.com/groups/_Bh1virn/video/PusoybDb/streetlab-the-beatles-the-beatles-sgt-peppers-stree/ Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:42:18 -0000 <div><a href="http://www.imeem.com/groups/_Bh1virn/video/PusoybDb/streetlab-the-beatles-the-beatles-sgt-peppers-stree/"><img width="100" height="75" border="0" src="http://srv0204-02.sjc3.imeem.com/g/v/ebde6877d31d6e1923234e04f783fde3_00010.jpg" title="Click to play this video"/></a></div> NFmiqpUcWY Big Deal Book Store bigdealbooks.com http://www.imeem.com/groups/_Bh1virn/video/jODfAr_p/jerry-levitain-john-lennon-i-met-the-walrus-shortfilm-vide/ Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:16:20 -0000 <div><a href="http://www.imeem.com/groups/_Bh1virn/video/jODfAr_p/jerry-levitain-john-lennon-i-met-the-walrus-shortfilm-vide/"><img width="100" height="56" border="0" src="http://srv0204-01.sjc3.imeem.com/g/v/aa785335ab6b8f5bab69538284589462_00010.jpg" title="Click to play this video"/></a></div> EZE-jC8JVS Big Deal Book Store bigdealbooks.com 1969 into 1970 http://www.imeem.com/groups/_Bh1virn/playlist/6BlfvdMb/1969-into-1970-video-playlist/ Sat, 28 Feb 2009 03:27:51 -0000 D9y9pdhixx Big Deal Book Store bigdealbooks.com Macca on his own http://www.imeem.com/groups/_Bh1virn/playlist/TKOqoWCu/macca-on-his-own-video-playlist/ Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:04:57 -0000 y_CJzaAY9G Big Deal Book Store bigdealbooks.com http://www.imeem.com/groups/_Bh1virn/video/C7R485z_/paul-mccartney-acid-shortfilm-video/ Mon, 09 Feb 2009 09:29:51 -0000 <div><a href="http://www.imeem.com/groups/_Bh1virn/video/C7R485z_/paul-mccartney-acid-shortfilm-video/"><img width="100" height="75" border="0" src="http://srv0204-04.sjc3.imeem.com/g/v/82d9bfb482aad75a88b4b6c4635cd186_00010.jpg" title="Click to play this video"/></a></div> oTi6dGLMbZ Big Deal Book Store bigdealbooks.com http://www.imeem.com/groups/_Bh1virn/video/V7cylcZ1/paul-mccartney-paul-mccartney-shortfilm-video/ Mon, 09 Feb 2009 09:27:48 -0000 <div><a href="http://www.imeem.com/groups/_Bh1virn/video/V7cylcZ1/paul-mccartney-paul-mccartney-shortfilm-video/"><img width="100" height="75" border="0" src="http://srv0204-05.sjc3.imeem.com/g/v/ac79903d363b5d504987238f9d84a2c5_00010.jpg" title="Click to play this video"/></a></div> hEIEyI2MZC Streetlab http://www.imeem.com/groups/_Bh1virn/music/9UZSVRQN/streetlab-the-beatles-sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-club-band/ Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:39:09 -0000 <div><a href="http://www.imeem.com/groups/_Bh1virn/music/9UZSVRQN/streetlab-the-beatles-sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-club-band/"><img border="0" src="http://resources-p2.imeem.com/resources/versioned/2/graphics/icons/no_album_art_100x100.png" title="Click to play this song"/></a></div> Otf02i7UKP Big Deal Book Store bigdealbooks.com Revolution http://www.imeem.com/groups/_Bh1virn/playlist/GKLv2o1o/revolution-video-playlist/ Mon, 29 Dec 2008 07:09:54 -0000 embV22Gvzi Zulaikha Pratto http://www.imeem.com/groups/_Bh1virn/music/emrEWWb-/the-beatles-11-yesterdaywma/ Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:57:21 -0000 <div><a href="http://www.imeem.com/groups/_Bh1virn/music/emrEWWb-/the-beatles-11-yesterdaywma/"><img border="0" src="http://icons-p3.imeem.com/emrEWWb-.jpg" title="Click to play this song"/></a></div> fDMFz_4jTw Big Deal Book Store bigdealbooks.com http://www.imeem.com/groups/_Bh1virn/video/1PB17fIq/the-beatles-apple-the-beatles-apple-music-video/ Wed, 26 Nov 2008 07:19:14 -0000 <div><a href="http://www.imeem.com/groups/_Bh1virn/video/1PB17fIq/the-beatles-apple-the-beatles-apple-music-video/"><img width="100" height="75" border="0" src="http://srv0204-01.sjc3.imeem.com/g/v/377bafccad99f34c06a999b406c39b9a_00010.jpg" title="Click to play this video"/></a></div> Lw55F-f4rd