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Rock and roll and homegrown skiffle, the group explored genres ranging from Tin Pan Alley to psychedelic rock.
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While attending Quarry Bank Grammar School in Liverpool, John Lennon formed a skiffle group called The Quarrymen.
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The young guitarist George Harrison was invited to watch the group (who played under a variety of names) al Wilson Hall, Garston, Liverpool.
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Their innovative music and cultural impact helped define the 1960s, and their influence on pop culture is still to evident today.
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Lennon's art-school friend Stuart Sutcliffe joined and played bass.
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Harrison was deported for having lied to the German authorities about his age.
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The reunited group played their first engagement at the Casbah Club.
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The first recording session at EMI'S Abbey Road Studios in nort London.
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They recorded their second single, "Please Please Me", which reached number two in the official UK charts and number one in the MME chart.
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Art Roberts placed "Please Please Me", into radio rotation, making it the firts time a Beatles record was heard on American radio.
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Beatlemania crossed the Atlantic, when a crowd of four thousand fans at Heathow Airport waved to The Beatles as they took off for their first trip to the United States as a group.
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Rolling Stone magazine ranked The Beatles #1 on its list of 100 Greates Artists of All Time
