Line #22 Awesome/TheBeatles


1	[[Music/TheBeatles Four guys from Liverpool]] got together a few years back and made some of the [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic best pop music in history]]. That's it.
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3	Oh, you want more?
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5	* ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'' routinely tops various critical Top Albums ''Of All Time'' lists.
6	** As do ''Music/AbbeyRoad'', ''Music/{{Revolver\|Beatles Album}}'', and ''Music/AHardDaysNight''. ''Revolver'' is the most consistently high-ranking on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lugnuts/List_of_albums_considered_the_best such lists]].
7	** Even when the band was at their most fractious, they made albums like ''Music/LetItBe'' and ''Music/TheWhiteAlbum''.
8	* The band broke up in 1970, that's about 50 years ago. [[http://abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/grammy.htm They are still winning Grammys]].
9	** Furthermore, even Music/ElvisPresley fans have to concede: when the Beatles' music is rereleased yet again over the decades in a new recording medium, it's consistently ''headline'' entertainment news with major multi-generational fan anticipation.
10	* During their touring years, there were multiple instances where the combined {{Squee}} of their fans was so loud it ''drowned out the roar of a jet engine''.
11	** A live album recorded during their shows at the Hollywood Bowl but released after they broke up has a persistent white noise running all the way through it. Is this the result of the recording equipment being faulty or broken? Nope, what you are hearing is the sound of ''tens of thousands of fans screaming their lungs out''!
12	* The final chord of "A Day In The Life", called "the most famous E-chord in history".
13	** According to Songfacts, the chord was made by all 4 Beatles ''and'' George Martin banging on 3 pianos simultaneously.
14	** Not to be confused with that screeching [[NightmareFuel/TheBeatles 'Extra Track'...]]
15	** How about the ''first'' chord of "A Hard Day's Night"?
16	* T-Mobile managed to get together a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orukqxeWmM0 15,300-person sing-along of Hey Jude]] in the Trafalgar Square in London. The awesomeness especially kicks in during the 'Na Na Na Na' coda. Easily doubles as a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment\|s}}. Especially during the coda.
17	* The rooftop concert. John's sign-off, "I'd like to say 'thank you' on behalf of the group and ourselves, and I hope we passed the audition", is a [[MeaningfulEcho Meaningful Echo of Awesome]].
18	* The fact that they nailed the recording of their cover of "Long Tall Sally" in a ''[[OneTakeWonder single take]]'' (having performed it so many times before, they were pretty good at it by that point, to say the least).
19	* "Twist and Shout" was also recorded [[OneTakeWonder in a single take]]. What's more, a second take would have not been possible because John's voice was shot. And it was recorded as the last song of the session for their first album. Which (except the four songs from their previous singles) was recorded ''in a single day''. And this while they still were abiding by the normal studio time schedule. ''[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking While John had a cold]]''.
20	* "Rock and Roll Music", which, thanks to Music/JohnLennon singing as loud and dynamically as he could and the electronic instrumentation, blew Music/ChuckBerry's TwelveBarBlues version completely out of the water, and inverted and reset the standard for the song. All other versions, including a future remake by Music/TheBeachBoys, were dull and paled by comparison.
21	* Until The Beatles broke through in the United States with "I Want to Hold Your Hand" in the winter of 1964, only four other songs by British performers had topped the ''Billboard'' pop charts since its inception in 1940. [[note]]Those songs were the ballad "Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart" by Vera Lynn (nine weeks in 1952), the gospel/Sunday school favorite "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands" by Laurie London in 1958, the instrumental "Stranger on the Shore" by Acker Bilk in 1962 and the instrumental "Telstar" by the Tornados in early 1963.[[/note]] British popular music had its occasional appeal in the United States through the early 1960s, but the Beatles made British pop music the most dominant style and began a run of dominance that has yet to be equaled. In 1964 alone, nine songs by British artists reached No. 1 (out of that year's 24 songs that topped the Billboard Hot 100), and by the end of the 1960s, 39 songs from the UK had gone No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, with nearly half (18) by the Fab Four (with Music/{{The Rolling Stones\|Band}} the next closest at five). For the first week in April of 1964, the band held the top ''five'' spots on the Billboard charts (with "Can't Buy Me Love", "Twist and Shout", "She Loves You", "I Want to Hold Your Hand", and "Please Please Me" in that order). We wouldn't see the likes of that again until the streaming era, half a century later.
22	* Their first performance on ''Series/TheEdSullivanShow'' drew over ''73 million'' viewers. Still, one of the highest rated segments in the history of television. To make that possible, The Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, made one of the canniest promotional deals in music history. When he was told by Sullivan's negotiator that the band would only get one appearance as a novelty act, Epstein counter-offered the band would accept a third of the standard appearance fee of one show for three appearances as the headliner and he himself would cover the travel expenses of the band personally. That proposal was too good for Ed Sullivan to pass up, and The Beatles got the most spectacular American promotion possible that set them up as the music mega-legends they would become.
23	* CoolOldGuy: In his 80s, and in an era where artists like Music/{{Kesha}}, Music/TaylorSwift, Music/KanyeWest, Music/LadyGaga, Music/BrunoMars, Music/KennyChesney and other young pop-oriented and country artists are top concert attractions, Music/PaulMcCartney remains solidly in that group of top concert attractions, regularly selling out top venues and drawing fans both young and old. Word has it that Music/RingoStarr is also equal to [=McCartney=] coolness-wise. About the only others from [=McCartney=]'s era who are on his coolness level are Music/EltonJohn and Music/FleetwoodMac.
24	** A good example was a show [=McCartney=] did in Seattle. 47,000 people were in attendance. He played 2½ hours with NO intermission, then brought out the surviving members of Nirvana for the encore. Artists one-third his age can't beat that.
25	** During his appearance on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjvzCTqkBDQ&t=156s Carpool Karaoke]], Paul gives a surprise concert at one of the pubs where he hung out in his youth, quickly getting the place packed as word gets around and just about the whole town races in just as delighted as the famous crowds in the band's prime.
26	* They had one of the most bizarre (for the day) contract riders: wherein ''they refused to play in front of a segregated audience''. [[Music/FrankSinatra Ol' Blue Eyes]] wasn't the only one bringing down barriers way back when.
27	* On the 11th November 2015, Creator/{{ITV}} screened a special called "The Nation's Favourite Beatles Number 1", which was [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a countdown of the nation's favourite Beatles tracks]] and an overview of their career. They said of several things "only the Beatles could have pulled this off".
28	* Ringo had to miss eight shows of the Beatles' 1964 world tour because of tonsillitis. After some debate, the boys decided to take on a session drummer named Jimmie Nichol, who barely had a day to rehearse and get acquainted with the band before being thrust into a world tour, with the biggest pop band in the world, for the biggest audiences of his life. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf-QWMN0T5s And Jimmie crushed it.]]
29	* In 2023, through usage of special technology that Creator/PeterJackson developed for the ''Get Back'' docuseries, the mythological "John Lennon tape" from the 70s finally had his vocal track separated from its piano track - and this allowed Paul and Ringo, with the aid of Jackson's incredible editing team, to put out '''the last Beatles song''', simply titled "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opxhh9Oh3rg Now And Then]]", with archive audio of George accompanying the others to create one final, beautiful track reflecting on the storied history of the band and the memories they, and the audience, all share. It's this, a poetic TearJerker, and a ''massive'' SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoment the whole way through.
30	* They're the best selling band ''of all time!'' They're also tied with Music/ElvisPresley as the best selling recording artist in history.

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