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The Quarrymen
in march 1957, when he was in quarry bank elementary school in liverpool, john lennon decided to create a band called The Quarrymen and asked Paul McCarthey to be his guitarist, he in turn invited harrison to the group and so he left forming the band, some invited more people and others left, so in the end it was that the band was officially formed in 1960 under the name of the Beatles. -
The hamburg
The Beatles played in Hamburg, at the Indra club, on October 4, 1960 they moved to the Kaiserkele. They had to play six or seven hours every night of the week, but on November 21 of that year, Harrison was deported for lying to police about his age, a week later McCartney and Best were arrested and deported for setting a fire. Lennon followed them to Liverpool in mid-December. -
The hamburg
Con el grupo reunido, dieron un concierto el 17 de diciembre de 1960 en el Casbah Club, los Beatles regresaron a Hamburgo en abril de 1961, actuando en el Top Ten Club. El cantante Tony Sheridan los vio actuar esa noche y los reclutó como su banda de apoyo en una serie de grabaciones. -
looking for contracts
Epstein assumed the position of manager of the group in January 1962, looked for a British recording contract, spoke with producers and record executives but was not successful, one of the companies was Decca Recorrds. -
Record Contract
Failing to impress Decca Records, Epstein went to a store on Oxford Street in London to transfer the Decca tapes to diacos when engineer Jim Foy heard them and transferred them to Sid Coleman who ran the editorial arm of EMS. Coleman was not surprised when listening to the demos but when he met the band he liked it. -
Record Contract
Their first recordings were not a success, but months later, in September 1962, they produced the British hit "love Me Do" which reached # 17 on the playlists. In November of that same year they recorded their second single "Please Please Me" which reached number two on the official kingdom charts and number one on the NME chart. three months later they recorded their first album titled "Please Please Me". -
Beatlemania
The first performance shown was on the People and Places program, this caused their fame to spread, creating a frenzy of adulation of the band by teenage fans or called beatlemania. -
The Beatles in America
Although they experienced huge popularity on the UK charts from 1963 onwards, Capitalo Recods did not want to reproduce their hits, but a small radio station in Chicago broadcast them and this is how the Beatles were heard in the US, but they were canceled for non-payment of royalties. This did not prevent them from being a hit in the United States, as when they arrived in the United States on February 7, 1964, a large number of fans were waiting for them, an estimated 3,000 fans. -
The Beatles
The Beatles were one and are one of the most important groups in the history of rock, they started the wave of British rock in America, they were also a great musical influence. They were the first to experience the phenomenon of "Beatlemania" mass fanaticism.
