The Beatles - not only on vinyl and cd!

There are litterally tons og information about the Beatles. I have myself one of the books that goes through every song they recorded with comments about how they recorded it, where, who played and arranged what and so on.

The Beatles are the greatest group of all time. Other groups has sold more, have recorded more albums, but ni music group has ever got the earth to stop turning because of an album release. It was more or less like that when Sgt Peppers Lonely hearts club band-record was released in 1967. And they did not even tour after the release for promotion. Thay did not have to.

That is why they are the greatest rock/pop group ever. It is not all about sales.

When they released Sgt Pepper, they had stopped touring, as they said in an interview, they did not hear what they were playing anyway, the audience (mostly the girls) were screaming so loud that the equipment of the 60's couldn't deliver more volume.

They had become proffessional music composers and studio musicians playing on their own albums.

It was paul McCartney on bass guitar, Ringo Starr on drums, George Harrison on lead guitar and John Lennon on Guitar. All of them sang.


The video: From The animated movie "Yellow submarine"

Drugs came into their lifes as musicians, already while the were unknown and played for hours and hours in Hamburg, Germany, but escalated influenced by the Hippie culture and sometimes when you read between the lines in interviews with Paul McCartney, it seems that it was a hard time recording the Pepper album because of Lennons drug use. Anyway, Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts club band, become an album that o lot of music critics consider one of the worlds greatest of all time.

The album is also known for how it is recorded and arranged, together with George Martin (called the fifth beatle because of the graet influence he had through all their carreer as their producer) on two four track recorders, which was extremly high tech at that time, but is in no way today.

John Lennong was shot 8 december 1980. The guitarist George Harrison died 29 november 2001 in cancer.

In november 2010, The music of the Beatles was released in iTunes. Why it is worth mentioning is because it took so long time. Some say it is because of Paul, who want to squeeze ecery penny out of a release, himself say it is because of the record company. Anyway, the Beatles music is now on iTunes!

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