In April of 1970, McCartney announced his departure from the band, effectively ending The Beatles. But with longtime producer/mentor George Martin's help they pulled it all together for resounding last hurrah on 1969's Abbey Road. By 1968's eclectic, untitled double LP, which came to be known as The White Album, the band was beginning to fragment. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, both wildly innovative and unprecedentedly influential.
The band began expanding its sound enormously on 1965's Rubber Soul and helped kickstart the psychedelic revolution with the one-two punch of 1966's Revolver and the following year's Sgt. "A Hard Day's Night," the 1964 Beatles-starring movie whose soundtrack was their album of the same name, spread the legend even further, influencing untold numbers of new bands. Thereafter, The Beatles were golden, an unstoppable hit machine as well as a rapidly evolving, endlessly innovative artistic entity fronted by two songwriting geniuses in Lennon and McCartney. debut album, 1964's Meet the Beatles, reached No. LP's, Please Please Me and With the Beatles (both 1963), hit No. 1 "I Wanna Hold Your Hand." The band's first two U.K. 2 and Beatlemania began sweeping the nation. Top 20, but the 1963 follow-up, "Please Please Me," reached No. Their first single, 1962's "Love Me Do," hit the U.K. Eventually he snared a deal with EMI, after which Best was replaced by Ringo Starr (nee Richard Starkey). He became their manager and started shopping them to record labels, originally receiving a deafening round of apathy. By 1961 they were a buzz band back home in Liverpool, especially at the Cavern Club, where they were seen by music biz entrepreneur Brian Epstein. Sutcliffe defected to become a painter and McCartney shifted to bass. That summer they began playing residencies in the clubs of Hamburg, Germany, where they learned their trade through long nights of multiple sets playing covers and their first batch of original material. Pete Best soon became the drummer, completing the first Beatles lineup. After Lennon's friend Stuart Sutcliffe joined on bass in 1960 they became The Beatles. They grew out of singer/guitarist John Lennon's '50s group The Quarrymen, which included singer/guitarist Paul McCartney and lead guitarist George Harrison. rock 'n' roll of the '50s and the British skiffle scene. Internationally acknowledged as the greatest rock band of all time, The Beatles did pretty much everything first and better than anyone else.
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