McCartney Times

From their formation in 1960 through to their demise in 1970, The Beatles achieved a wide variety of musical successes that not only made them the world’s biggest band but quite possibly the most pioneering musical group of all time. Even today, fifty years after the band broke up, they are still the world’s best-selling artist in history.

The Liverpudlian icons played a crucial role in the development of the 1960s counterculture movement, aiding the rise of popular music into the mainstream as an art form. The band took their cues from skiffle, beat and ’50s rock and roll. Latterly, the band would be influenced by classical music, ballads, Indian music, psychedelia and hard rock. Ultimately, The Beatles revolutionised every aspect of popular music.

Famously, the group were helmed by songwriting power couple John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Over three years, starting with the group’s inception in 1960, they built up a strong following playing at clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg, Germany. The story of the latter is a much-fabled tale.

The core trio of the Beatles was Lennon, McCartney and guitarist George Harrison, and they had been together since 1958. The three had met playing in the Liverpool skiffle scene of the ’50s and, in their early days, they had a line of drummers, including Pete Best, who was replaced by Ringo Starr in 1962 following a short illness. Now the classic Beatles line-up had formed.

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