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beatles
Title: beatles
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 507 | Pages: 2.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
beatles
The Beatles-the singer-guitarists Paul McCartney, John Lennon, and George Harrison, and the drummer Ringo Starr-have been the most influential performing group in the history of rock. Their music, hairstyle, dress, and lifestyle were imitated all over the world, resulting in a phenomenon known as Beatlemania.
All four Beatles were born during the early 1940s in Liverpool, England, and dropped out of school in their teens to devote themselves to rock. Lennon and McCartney, the main …showed first 75 words of 507 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 507 total…s and McCartney’s lyrics were unusually inventive. Their songs were often based on modes-rather than major or minor scales-and their harmonic vocabulary was richer than that of most rock. Sometimes their songs contained changes of meter and phrases of irregular length. Most striking was the Beatles’ use of many electronic and instrumental sounds not previously associated with rock. Many of these novel features can be heard in Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
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