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.