Four guys from Liverpool got together a few years back and made some of the best pop music in history. That's it.
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- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band routinely tops various critical Top Albums Of All Time lists.
- As do Abbey Road, Revolver, and A Hard Day's Night. Revolver is the most consistently high-ranking on such lists
. - Even when the band was at their most fractious, they made albums like Let It Be and The White Album.
- As do Abbey Road, Revolver, and A Hard Day's Night. Revolver is the most consistently high-ranking on such lists
- The band broke up in 1970, that's about 50 years ago. They are still winning Grammys.
- Furthermore, even Elvis Presley 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.
- 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.
- 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!
- The final chord of "A Day In The Life", called "the most famous E-chord in history".
- According to Songfacts, the chord was made by all 4 Beatles and George Martin banging on 3 pianos simultaneously.
- Not to be confused with that screeching 'Extra Track'...
- How about the first chord of "A Hard Day's Night"?
- T-Mobile managed to get together a 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 Heartwarming Moment. Especially during the coda.
- 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 Meaningful Echo of Awesome.
- The fact that they nailed the recording of their cover of "Long Tall Sally" in a single take (having performed it so many times before, they were pretty good at it by that point, to say the least).
- "Twist and Shout" was also recorded 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. While John had a cold.
- "Rock and Roll Music", which, thanks to John Lennon singing as loud and dynamically as he could and the electronic instrumentation, blew Chuck Berry's 12-Bar Blues version completely out of the water, and inverted and reset the standard for the song. All other versions, including a future remake by The Beach Boys, were dull and paled by comparison.
- 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 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 The Rolling Stones 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.
- Their first performance on The Ed Sullivan Show 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.
- Cool Old Guy: In his 80s, and in an era where artists like Kesha, Taylor Swift, Kanye West, Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars, Kenny Chesney and other young pop-oriented and country artists are top concert attractions, Paul McCartney 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 Ringo Starr is also equal to McCartney coolness-wise. About the only others from McCartney's era who are on his coolness level are Elton John and Fleetwood Mac.
- 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.
- During his appearance on 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.
- They had one of the most bizarre (for the day) contract riders: wherein they refused to play in front of a segregated audience. Ol' Blue Eyes wasn't the only one bringing down barriers way back when.
- On the 11th November 2015, ITV screened a special called "The Nation's Favourite Beatles Number 1", which was 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".
- 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. And Jimmie crushed it.
- In 2023, through usage of special technology that Peter Jackson 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 "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 Tear Jerker, and a massive Heartwarming Moment the whole way through.
- They're the best selling band of all time! They're also tied with Elvis Presley as the best selling recording artist in history.
