venerdì 15 novembre 2013

The Beatles

The Beatles are a British musical quartet of the 1960s. The members were: Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Star. It formed around the nucleus of Lennon and McCartney,who first performed together, the group grew out of a shared enthusiasm for American rock and roll. Lennon was the guitarist and the singer, and McCartney, was the bassist and the singer, they were largely self-taught as musicians.  In the late 1950s they assuming different names (the Quarrymen, the Silver Beetles, and, finally, the Beatles). In autumn 1961 Brian Epstein, a local Liverpool record store manager, saw the band and fell in love. Seriously convinced of their commercial potential, Epstein became their manager and proceeded to bombard the major British music companies with letters and tape recordings of the band, finally winning a contract with Parlophone, a subsidiary of the giant EMI group of music labels. In 1963, the Beatles continued their rise to fame in England, creating the so-called : Beatlemania. In early 1964 the same phenomenon erupted in the United States and provoked a so-called British Invasion of Beatles imitators from the United Kingdom.

venerdì 8 novembre 2013

The Royal Family

Queen Elizabeth II is the symbol of Britain, her surname is Windsor, but the real surname is Saxe- Coburg & Gotha, because in 1917, World War I, the King had's origin, and they didn't like theGermany so he changed his surname (beacause it was German's surname). The son, Edward VIII , abdicated beacause hwe fell in love with an American woman, who was an actress and she was divorced. So his brother, George VI , became the new King. George had two daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret, when he died Elizabeth II became queen. Elizabeth married Prince Philip, he became Duke of Edinburgh, and he was Greek. They were distant cousin, and they had four children: the first Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, the second Princess Anne, the third Prince Andrew, Duke of York, the fourth Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex. Charles heir to the throne, he married first whit Lady Diana , but he was in love whit an old girlfriend,Camilla .Charles and Diana had two sons: William and Harry. After they divorced,and Lady Diana, unluckily, was killed in crash car. William is the Duke of Cambridge, and he married Kate Middleton. They had a baby in July, his name is George.