01. fact file for the beatles

3rd version- with a video link

1. Lucy Pratt 12u 09/10/17
Fact-file for The Beatles
Name:
Members’ names: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, George Harrison
Age (when band formed- finished): //// they meet in their late teens.
Active: 1960-1970
Genre of music: rock, pop
Their image/ style: range of styles popular with
youth all-over Europe
Their record label: apple records/ EMI

How did they get signed?: they were recognised by
the label due to their rise in money they got from small gigs in the cavern in Liverpool which lead to
them getting Brian Epstein as their new manager who then went on to find the Beatles a records
label. They were rejected by every major record label in the UK, such as: Columbia, Philips, oriole,
Decca, Pye etc. There first album was recorded at Abby Road studio.
What did they do before they were signed?: Paul McCartney and John Lennon were teenagers
when they first met and Paul had a band which he invited John to join- The Quarrymen. George
Harrison join the band shortly after and they played small gigs at a club called The Casbah. They
were then joined by a vocalist, Stuart Sutcliffe and drummer Peter Best (whose mother own the
club). The band went through several names and some nicknames; names were- The Quarrymen,
Johnny and the Mood Dogs, and the silver Beatles. Nicknames included- The Fab four. John Lennon
thought up their final name- the Beatles- a mix of Beat and Beetles. They were eventually joined by
Ringo Starr who played previously for a band named Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. The band’s first
studio work was after their first tour of Germany; they were the backing band for a studio recording
of the singer Tony Sheridan. However, the credits listed the band’s name was listed as The Beat
Brothers.
Target audience: originally wrote for a teenage girl audience as in the 1960s there was a large
percentage of teenagers as they were the generation born shortly after World War 2.
Awards and recognitions:
Table- awards and nominations (Wikipedia- list of awards and
nominations received by the Beatles)
Award wins Nominations
American music
awards
0 1
Brit awards 4 4
Grammy awards 11 28
Ivor Nevello awards 15 21
NME awards 17 17
World music awards 3 3

( Some of my information was found on http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1397313/bio)

2. Lucy Pratt 12u 09/10/17
Fact-file for The Beatles
How did the Beatles impact popular culture?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_impact_of_the_Beatles
The Beatle were inspiring changes to the music industry as they were writing their own music and at
the time artists and bands hired songwriters. This inspiration threatened professional songwriter’s
jobs as more and more artists wanted to write their own music.
The Beatles also influenced the youth. “evidence suggests thousands – if not hundreds of thousands
or even more – young musicians across the country formed bands and proceeded to play." They
were inspiring the young generation with music and it was very quick and clear as “"Within weeks of
that, you could drive through literally any neighbourhood in Gainesville and you would hear the
strains of garage bands playing ... I mean everywhere. And I'd say by a year from that time,
Gainesville probably had 50 bands."”
“George Harrison was the person to own a Rickenbacker 360/12, a
guitar” which he used “during the recording of A Hard Day's Night
(1964)” This sparked up popularity for the guitar which led to other
musicians in other bands such as ‘the Everly Brothers’ and the
Searchers’ loving the sound and using it within their songs. These
bands “laid the foundations for jangle pop in the late 1950s to mid-
1960s”
“With the rise of the Beatles in 1963, the terms Mersey sound and
Merseybeat were applied to bands and singers from Liverpool, and
this was the first time in British pop music that a sound and a
location were linked together.”
“Progressive rock (or art rock) grew out of the classically-minded
strains of British psychedelia. In 1966, the level of social and artistic correspondence among British
and American rock musicians dramatically accelerated for bands like the Beatles, the Beach Boys and
the Byrds who fused elements of cultivated music with the vernacular traditions of rock.”
“The Beatles were the first entertainment act to stage a large stadium concert.” This is hugely
significant for the music industry and music culture as whole as now stadium concerts are a part of
music performances and rise in popularity in artists and bands.
“The Beatles style changes throughout the years starting off in
all black matching suits to going completely patterned in
paisley clothing to wearing plain white t shirts all styles were
very popular with their fans and The 4 were most certainly
trend setters.” “Because of the immense popularity of the
Beatles, the haircut was widely imitated worldwide between
1964 and 1966. Their hair-style led toy manufacturers to begin
producing real-hair and plastic "Beatle Wigs”.” The Beatles
boots were also a trend-setter and are now known as ‘Beatle
boots’