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RollingStone.com:
The impact of the Beatles -- not only on rock & roll but on all of Western culture -- is simply incalculable. As musicians they proved that rock & roll could embrace a limitless variety of harmonies, structures, and sounds; virtually every rock experiment has some precedent on Beatles records. As a unit they were a musically synergistic combination: Paul McCartney’s melodic bass lines, Ringo Starr’s slaphappy no-rolls drumming, George Harrison’s rockabilly-style guitar leads, John Lennon’s assertive rhythm guitar -- and their four fervent voices. One of the first rock groups to write most of its material, they inaugurated the era of self-contained bands and forever centralized pop. And as personalities, they defined and incarnated Sixties style: smart, idealistic, playful, irreverent, eclectic. Their music, from the not-so-simple love songs they started with to their later perfectionistic studio extravaganzas, set new standards for both commercial and artistic success in pop. Although many of their sales and attendance records have since been surpassed, no group has so radically transformed the sound and meaning of rock & roll.
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SonicNet.com:
The origin of the phenomenon that became the Beatles can be traced to 1957 when Paul McCartney (b. 18 June 1942, Liverpool, England) successfully auditioned at a church fête in Woolton, Liverpool, for the guitarist's position in the Quarry Men,
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a skiffle group led by John Lennon (b. 9 October 1940, Liverpool, England, d. 8 December 1980, New York, USA). Within a year, two more musicians had been brought in, the 15-year-old guitarist George Harrison (b. 25 February 1943, Liverpool, England) and an art school friend of Lennon's, Stuart Sutcliffe (b. 23 June 1940, Edinburgh, Scotland, d. 10 April 1962, Hamburg, Germany).
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IMusic.com:
Anthology III, the third and final chapter from the Anthology collection comprises 50 songs -- first takes, out-takes and never before heard recordings from the period 1968-1970, a total of 2 1/2 hours of music.
This was a time of The White Album, Let It Be, and Abbey Road and The Beatles Anthology III includes "stripped bare" alternative versions
of Beatles classics from that period, including "Helter Skelter," "Come Together," "Hey Jude," "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," "Glass Onion," "Don't Pass Me By" and "Something."
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