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Liverpool. John Winston Lennon (b. 1940). John and his mum, Julia. John and his Aunt Mimi. John’s Home With Aunt Mimi. The Quarry Men. From left to right: Eric Griffiths, Colin Hanton, Rod Davis, John Lennon, Pete Shotton & Len Garry. George Harrison joins. The Quarry Men Today.
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John and his mum, Julia John and his Aunt Mimi
The Quarry Men From left to right: Eric Griffiths, Colin Hanton, Rod Davis, John Lennon, Pete Shotton & Len Garry
The Quarry Men Today John Lowe Rod Davis Len Garry Colin Hanton
Stu Sutcliffe joins And kinda, sorta plays bass
Astrid Kirchherr Gave the Beatles their moptop haircuts and … took Stu away….
Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers The Beatles’s first record is recorded They are Tony’s back up band! The song is “My Bonnie”
Brian Epstein • Runs NEMS record store near Cavern • Goes to see Beatles when fans ask for “My Bonnie” • Becomes their manager
Rejected! • The Beatles are rejected by Decca Records • Dick Rowe tells Epstein…. that “Guitar groups are on their way out!” Epstein tries EMI records!
The Beatles get a contract! But there’s a catch! Pete Best will not be the drummer for the recordings! Pete will be fired by Epstein.. And Ringo Starr will replace him
Beatles Record at Abbey Road • “Love Me Do” with session drummer • Song reaches #17 • Martin wants them to do a cover song • Beatles do Please, Please me • Song will reach #1 in UK • Beatlemania exploded in UK and Europe! • No interest in the US as VeeJay release flops • “She Loves You” laughed at on Dick Clark’s AMERICAN BANDSTAND
November 22, 1963 • CBS Morning News profiles Beatlemania in five minute story • Young girl sees and gets a DJ to play “I Want to Hold Your Hand” • When released in December will go to #1 • Beatlemania has reached the US! • Beatles are booked to appear on Ed Sullivan’s variety show for February, 1964
The Beatles arrive at JFK Airport, New York City on February 7, 1964
Beatles on Ed Sullivan Show (Feb. 1964) Half of America (74 million people watch) Crime supposedly to a standstill Beatles head next to Washington, D.C and then Miami
Beatles Tour Australia/New Zealand John, Paul, George and… JIMMY NICHOL WTH? Ringo had tonsilitis!
A HARD DAY’S NIGHT Beatle's first movie Directed by Richard Lester Beatles seen as new Marx Brothers?
“HARD DAYS NIGHT” TRIVIA Phil later changed his name to: • George met his future wife Patti Boyd (subject of songs “Something” and Eric Clapton’s “Layla” and “Wonderful Tonight”) Mr. Todd Geries Phil Collin’s (once a great artist until he sold out to F#*%ing Disney and Hollywood) made his screeen debut as screaming teenager
Beatles Receive MBE from the Queen • Members of the Most Honorable Order of the British Empire • Some members returned theirs in protest • John later returned his! • Paul was knighted in 1997 • Sir Paul!
Beatles’s Second Film! In glorious colour!
Bob Dylan’s Influence • Dylan visits Beatles in New York • Dylan introduces Beatles to marijuana • Believed Paul has said, “I get high” in “Can’t Buy Me Love” instead of “I can’t hide” Lennon’s songs, in particular, become much more introspective (such as “HELP!”, “Hide Your Love Away”, “I’m a Loser”, “Nowhere Man”
Beatles Perform at Shea Stadium! First outdoor rock concert! 56,000 fans watch them! Beatles cannot hear themselves due to screaming! Disenchantment with touring begins! John played piano with elbows!
The Beatles Meet “The King” • Elvis had sent them a congrats telegram and western gun belts and pistols • Elvis’s manager and the Beatles’ manager, Brian Epstein, arrange the meeting • Beatles first stare at Elvis • Elvis threatens to leave • Elvis and Beatles jam for an hour or so and then leave • No pics or recording exist of the meeting
Includes first feedback use on ”I Feel Fine” Included “No Reply” and Baby’s In Black” Ringo even gets to sing in Honey Don’t”
Beatles Experiment With LSD • First time George and John (and dates) are slipped the drug in tea or coffee as sugar cubes • Take it again while in LA • Actor Pete Fonda tells them during trip “I know what’s it’s like to be dead.”
Rubber Soul (1965) • Changed Pop Albums forever • Included hits such as "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)“, "Nowhere Man," "I'm Looking Through You" , “In My Life,” and a Harrison song “If I Needed Someone”
Pattie Boyd Married George: George asked on first meeting: “Will you marry me?" Boyd laughed, so Harrison said, "Well, if you won't marry me, will you have dinner with me tonight Divorced him in late seventies (had affair with Ronnie Wood when he was having affair with Wood’s wife as well as Ringo’s wife. Fell in love with Eric Clapton while was living with her younger sister “Something”,”Layla, “Wonderful Tonight” all written about her The Beatles’s Women! Cynthia Powell Married John in 1962 (pregnant with Julian) Divorced John in 1968
Mo’ Beatles Women Jane Asher Linda Eastman
Even Mo’ Beatles’ Women Maureen Cox Had dated Paul Married Ringo George had affair with her Thanked at end of “Get Back” (Thanks Mo!” Son Zack is drummer for Died of Leukemia in 1990s
Birth of the Music Video • Rather than appear on Ed Sullivan yet again the Beatles lip-synched to two new singles: • “Paperback Writer” • “Rain” (among first to use backward loops) • The music video had been born!
Revolver (late 1966) Contains songs such as: George’s “Taxman” (criticism of England’s socialist government’s hgh taxes) McCartney’s “Eleanor Rigby” (String arrangement by George Martin) “Yellow Submarine” (vocal by Ringo) Paul’s “For No One” John’s “I’m Only Sleeping” Paul’s jazzy “Got to get You Into My Life” John’s other wordly “Tomorrow Never Knows”
The Butcher Shot • Was a cover for American compilation of songs left off earlier American LPs entitled “Yesterday and Today” • Done by surrealist photographer • Showed Beatles in butcher coats with severed dolls’ heads and sausage • Eventually recalled (some had new less offensive covers) glued over them • Mint copies fetch as much as $10,000 today • And now the cover…..!!!
Marcos Fiasco in Philippines • Beatles play two shows in Manila (following shows in Japan) • Beatles were invited (requested) to meet President Ferdinand and First Lady Imelda Marcos • Brian Epstein (without telling Beatles) refuses • Beatles lose protection, are roughed up, and have money taken away • Imelda later famous for shoe collection
“More Popular Than Jesus • In an interview with Maureen Cleave, John said: • ”Christianity will go, it will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first-rock 'n' roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.” • Particularly angers fans in American South • Beatles records were banned, burned or broken • KKK threatens them
John’s “Apology” • At a press conference John said, “ I was not saying whatever they're saying I was saying. I'm sorry I said it really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious thing. I apologise if that will make you happy. I still do not know quite what I've done. I've tried to tell you what I did do, but if you want me to apologise, if that will make you happy, then OK, I'm sorry.” Lennon later wrote, "I always remember to thank Jesus for the end of my touring days; if I hadn't said that The Beatles were 'bigger than Jesus' and upset the very Christian Ku Klux Klan, well, Lord, I might still be up there with all the other performing fleas! God bless America. Thank you, Jesus."[
Mo’ Apology • If I had said television is more popular than Jesus, I might have got away with it, but I just happened to be talking to a friend and I used the words "Beatles" as a remote thing, not as what I think - as Beatles, as those other Beatles like other people see us. I just said "they" are having more influence on kids and things than anything else, including Jesus. But I said it in that way which is the wrong way." • originally I pointed out that fact in reference to England. That we meant more to kids than Jesus did, or religion at that time. I wasn't knocking it or putting it down. I was just saying it as a fact and it's true more for England than here. I'm not saying that we're better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person or God as a thing or whatever it is. I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this." • "I wasn't saying whatever they're saying I was saying. I'm sorry I said it really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious thing. I apologize if that will make you happy. I still don't know quite what I've done. I've tried to tell you what I did do but if you want me to apologize, if that will make you happy, then OK, I'm sorry."
Beatles Last Concert • Candlestick Park San Francisco, CA • August 29, 1966 • Only half of tickets sold • Afterwards Beatles will perform live only once more (Apple rooftop concert 1969)
