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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 '''[[User:Nobody Cares|Nobody Cares]]''' and '''[[User:ListentoMusic|ListentoMusic]]''' in 2010, by [[User:Glamra|Glamra]] in 2013, [[User:KirbyTheBulborb|KirbyTheBulborb]] in 2021, and again by [[User:BootlegsATrolley|BootlegsATrolley]] in 2024. Ever since 2006, this wiki has given the finest wiki information about [[The Beatles]]. And '''[[Special:MyPage|you]]''' can help! (Not sure how you can help? Check out this wiki's [[The Beatles Wiki:Tasks which need to be done|to-do list]].)
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[[File:I'll Cry Instead/I'm Happy Just To Dance With You single cover.jpg|thumb|The cover from the ''[[I'll Cry Instead]]''/''I'm Happy Just to Dance With You'' single.]]

<nowiki>'</nowiki>'''I'm Happy Just to Dance with You'''<nowiki>'</nowiki> is mainly a [[John Lennon]] composition (credited to [[Lennon/McCartney]]) recorded by [[The Beatles]] for the film soundtrack to ''[[A Hard Day's Night (album)|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[[File:Anthology 1.jpg|thumb|'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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*...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]] [[:Category:Disambiguation|Disambiguation]] page, the Beatles Wiki became officially 'evil' (666 pages)?
*...that both [[Cynthia Lennon]] and [[Yoko Ono]] were older than [[John Lennon|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?

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[[File:The Beatles.jpg|right|232px]]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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*[https://www.thebeatles.com/ The Beatles - Official Site]
*[https://www.johnlennon.com/ John Lennon - Official Site]
*[https://ringostarr.com Ringo Starr - Official Site]
*[https://paulmccartney.com Paul McCartney - Official Site]
*[https://www.georgeharrison.com/ George Harrison - Official Site]
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