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A Good Source For The Beatles Universe And Anything Else Related 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.) VERY IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMNET: The Rutles Wiki is moving from the old wiki to a new one due to inactive administration, in other words we are hosting coup against them, so if you are interested please help out by copy and pasting the pages over and reuploaded images. IMPORTANT: By editing or uploading on this wiki, you indicate that you have read all the policy pages and that you agree to abide by them. About • Policy • All policy pages Beatles News Mitzi McCall, 93, Dies; Comedian Confronted Beatlemania and Lost - Richard Sandomir - 2024/08/26 19:16 She and her husband had the bad luck to make their “Ed Sullivan Show” debut the same night as the Beatles. They bombed. But their careers would recover.... Judge John Hodgman on the Most Iconic Beatles Album Cover - John Hodgman - 2024/08/08 09:03 A couple compete to see who can be more wrong.... La guitarra que John Lennon usó en ‘Help!’ se subasta por 2,9 millones de dólares - John Yoon - 2024/05/30 18:56 Tras aparecer en varios álbumes de The Beatles, el instrumento permaneció olvidado durante más de 50 años, hasta que apareció en el desván de una casa en la campiña británica.... John Lennon’s Guitar From ‘Help!’ Is Sold for $2.9 Million at Auction - John Yoon - 2024/05/30 14:14 After appearing in multiple albums by the Beatles, the instrument was forgotten for more than 50 years before it turned up in the attic of a British countryside home.... How Big Is Taylor Swift? - Joe Coscarelli, Courtney Cox and Fred Bierman - 2024/05/23 09:34 As big as the Beatles? Michael Jackson? Beyoncé? We crunched the numbers.... Featured Song 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. Read More & Listen... Featured Album Anthology 1 is a compilation album by The Beatles, released on Apple Records in November 1995. It is the '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. Read More... Featured Article John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980), was a 20th-century Academy Award and Grammy Award-winning English songwriter, singer, instrumentalist, graphic artist, author and political activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founders of The Beatles. Lennon and Paul McCartney shared a partnership for writing songs. Lennon, with his cynical edge and knack for introspection, and McCartney, with his optimism and gift for melody, complemented one another uniquely. In his solo career, Lennon wrote and recorded songs such as "Imagine" and "Give Peace a Chance". Lennon revealed his rebellious nature and strong wit on television, in films such as A Hard Day's Night (1964), in books such as In His Own Write, and in press conferences and interviews. He channelled his fame and penchant for controversy into his work as a peace activist, artist, and author. He had two sons, Julian Lennon, with his first wife Cynthia Lennon, and Sean Lennon, with his second wife, avant-garde artist Yoko Ono. Lennon was murdered by a deranged fan Mark David Chapman in New York City on 8 December 1980 after he and Ono returned home from a recording session. In 2002, respondents to a BBC poll on the 100 Greatest Britons voted Lennon into eighth place. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Lennon number 38 on their list of "The Immortals: The Fifty Greatest Artists of All Time" and ranked The Beatles at number 1. He was called "the leader Beatle." Read More Did You Know... ...that Say Say Say, the duet by Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson, is credited for the introduction of dialogue and storyline into music videos? ...that the first song the Beatles recorded was In Spite of All the Danger? ...that John Lennon started and ended The Beatles? ...that Brian Epstein was gay? ...that Paul McCartney and George Harrison were best friends since they met on the school bus in 1954? ...that the full interviews of John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and George Harrison are viewable on the Dick Cavett Show page? ...that with the addition of the Hey Jude Disambiguation page, the Beatles Wiki became officially 'evil' (666 pages)? ...that both Cynthia Lennon and Yoko Ono were older than John? ...that John Lennon and Cynthia Lennon had birthdays on consecutive days of the month? (9 October and 10 September, respectively.) ...that the above means that their birthdays are 9/10 and 10/9, although which is which depends on which date format you use?

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. Read More of Rolling Stone's Beatles Biography...

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