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Welcome To The Beatles Wiki! A wiki founded in 2006 by Vidur about the world's greatest musical act, adopted by Nobody Cares and ListentoMusic in 2010, by Glamra in 2013, KirbyTheBulborb in 2021, and again by BootlegsATrolley in 2024. Ever since 2006, this wiki has given the finest wiki information about The Beatles. And you can help! (Not sure how you can help? Check out this wiki's to-do list.)

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9 Musicians Who Play a Role in This Year’s Oscars - Lindsay Zoladz - 2024/03/08 19:13

Hear songs by Dua Lipa, Jarvis Cocker and yes, Bradley Cooper....

Sam Mendes to Direct Four Beatles Films - Maya Salam - 2024/02/20 22:17

The Oscar-winning filmmaker Sam Mendes was given full rights to the band’s music and their life stories for the unusual quartet of films, planned for 2027....

Así es como encontraron el bajo perdido de Paul McCartney - Isabella Kwai - 2024/02/19 14:16

El emblemático Höfner 500/1 que acompañó a los Beatles a la fama desapareció hace más de medio siglo. Dos periodistas y un experto en Höfner estaban decididos a encontrarlo....

How Paul McCartney’s Lost Bass Guitar Was Found Five Decades Later - Isabella Kwai - 2024/02/18 02:47

The Höfner violin bass that accompanied the Beatles to fame went missing more than 50 years ago. Two journalists and a Höfner expert were determined to find it....

Paul McCartney Talks About His Beatles Photos Coming to the Brooklyn Museum - Lucie Young - 2024/02/13 17:19

Sixty years after the Beatles appeared live on “Ed Sullivan,” McCartney reflects on his photos capturing those halcyon days. The Brooklyn Museum will exhibit them, and some will be for sale later....

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I'll Cry Instead/I'm Happy Just To Dance With You single cover

The cover from the I'll Cry Instead/I'm Happy Just to Dance With You single.

'I'm Happy Just to Dance with You' is mainly a John Lennon composition (credited to Lennon/McCartney) recorded by The Beatles for the film soundtrack to A Hard Day's Night, and first released on 1 March 1964.

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Anthology 1 is a compilation album by The Beatles, released on Apple Records in November 1995. It is the
Anthology 1

'Anthology 1', released in 1995

first of a three-volume collection, all of which tie-in with the televised special The Beatles Anthology, and contains 'Free as a Bird,' billed as the first new Beatles song in 25 years. It topped the Billboard 200 album chart, and was certified 4x Platinum by the RIAA.
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth album by The Beatles. It was released on June 1, 1967 in the United Kingdom and on June 2, 1967 in the United States. Sgt. Pepper is often said to be The Beatles' best work, and one of the most influential albums of all time. In 2003, the album was ranked number 1 on the Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time List. In 2006, the album was chosen by Time Magazine as one of the 100 best albums of all time.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was recorded after the band stopped touring. The album's songs were each designed so that they could not be played live. All of The Beatles experimented with new sounds while recording the album, so each song is very different. It is rumoured that drugs took a big part while the band was making the album. The song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" was said to be about LSD, but the band denied it.


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The Beatles

The Beatles
No band has influenced pop culture the way The Beatles have. They were one of the best things to happen in the twentieth century, let alone the Sixties. They were youth personified. They were unmatched innovators who were bigger than both Jesus and rock & roll itself: During the week of 4 April 1964, the Beatles held the first five slots on the Billboard Singles chart; they went on to sell more than a billion records; and 2000's 1 , a compilation of the Beatles Number One hits, hit Number One in 35 countries and went on to become the best-selling album of the 2000s.

Every record was a shock when it came out. Compared to rabid R&B evangelists like the Rolling Stones, the Beatles arrived sounding like nothing else. They had already absorbed Buddy Holly, the Everly Brothers and Chuck Berry, but they were also writing their own songs. They made writing your own material expected, rather than exceptional. As musicians, the Beatles proved that rock & roll could embrace a limitless variety of harmonies, structures, and sounds; virtually every rock experiment has some precedent on Beatles records. As a unit the Beatles were a synergistic combination: Paul McCartney's melodic bass lines, Ringo Starr's slaphappy no-rolls drumming, George Harrison's rockabilly-style guitar leads, John Lennon's assertive rhythm guitar — and their four fervent voices. As personalities, they defined and incarnated Sixties style: smart, idealistic, playful, irreverent, eclectic. Their music, from the not-so-simple love songs they started with to their later perfectionistic studio extravaganzas, set new standards for both commercial and artistic success in pop.

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'We were just trying to write songs about prostitutes and lesbians, you know.' - Paul McCartney

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George Harrison on Elvis Presley

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