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Line 8: \|"[[Grand Finale\|The End]]"}} ~~Four~~'''The Beatles''' are an obscure British band, made up of four lads from Liverpool -- [[John Lennon]], [[Paul McCartney]], [[George Harrison]], and [[Ringo Starr]] -- who released some albums in [[The Sixties]], and are credited by many for changing the face of rock music~~, while~~; for others they were at least major pioneers of the new style of pop rock, and a major force of [[The British Invasion]]. For many people, they are also the face of [[The Sixties]]. Which is not bad work, really. ''[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]'' is considered by many critics to be the greatest album in history and is credited with really changing the way people listened to pop music; it also has one of the most parodied and homaged album covers in the history of music. The simpler image on the cover of ''Abbey Road'' of [[Abbey Road Crossing\|the band walking in near-lockstep across the street]] is a close competitor for most homaged cover, as is the half-shadowed band portrait that was used on the British album ''With the Beatles'' and its American equivalent/[[Macekre]] ''Meet the Beatles''. The Beatles were the first band in history to make music video equivalents to their own songs, which every musician does now. They played themselves in three fictional films: the [[Mockumentary\|pseudo-documentary]] ''[[A Hard Day's ~~Night\|A Hard Days~~ Night]]'' (1964), the [[James Bond (film)\|James Bond]] parody ''[[Help!]]'' (1965), and the critically-panned surrealist television film ''[[Magical Mystery Tour]]'' (1967); they were also the subject of the [[Documentary]] film ''[[Let It Be]]'' (1970). Their [[Celebrity Toons]] equivalents starred in two very different [[Band Toon]]s, each with a distinct set of character designs for the Fab Four. [[The Beatles (animation)\|Their wacky 1965]] [[Animated Series]] was the first made-for-TV cartoon based on a real band (or any real people), and therefore both the [[Ur Example]] and [[Trope Maker]] for [[Celebrity Toon]]. Meanwhile, the 1968 feature ''[[Yellow Submarine]]'' brought kid-friendly psychedelic imagery to the masses. The band broke up in 1970 under [[Creative Differences\|circumstances painful to think about]]. Everyone went on to solo careers. The dissolution was finalized in 1974, but Apple Corps (the Beatles' management company) was left intact. For perhaps fifteen years, few people saw any purpose for that... Line 26: On December 24 2015, their music became available on most streaming services.<ref>[http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35166985 BBC News article]</ref> [[File:The Beatles logo.svg\|thumb\|200px]] {{discography\|Their complete discography (as available in the 9/9/09 remastered box sets) is:}} * ''Please Please Me'' (1963) Line 62 ⟶ 63: * ''[[Across the Universe (film)\|Across the Universe]]'', a Mamma-Mia style musical using parsed lyrics to cobble together a loose plot * ''[[I Am Sam]]'', a [[Sean Penn]] movie whose mentally disabled protagonist loves the Beatles * ''[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (film)\|Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]'', a 1978 [[Jukebox Musical]] {{tropenamer\|The Beatles are the [[Trope Namers\|Trope Namer]] for:}} * [[Abbey Road Crossing]] (The album cover from ''Abbey Road'') * [[Bigger Than Jesus]] (Although [[John Lennon]] [[Beam Me Up, Scotty\|didn't actually say that]]) Line 74 ⟶ 76: * [[Yoko Oh No]] (John's wife [[Yoko Ono]]) {{creatortropes\|The Beatles provide examples of the following tropes:}} * [[Alliteration]]: Mean Mr. Mustard and Polythene Pam. Bungalow Bill and Rocky Raccoon. And Sexy Sadie. Line 233 ⟶ 235: Hell, everything about Julian Lennon. Both he and his father were born to parents too young and immature to raise a child; both were pretty much abandoned by their parents (though Julian did still live with his mother); and then, by the time they had mended their respective relationships, both times the parent gets killed by someone else. And Julian looks like his mother, Cynthia, and sounds a lot like his father. His younger half-brother Sean did better, at least from an artistic POV. Sean's 1998 indie rock effort ''Into the Sun'' was different enough from not only Julian's more pop efforts, but also the works of [[Oasis (band)\|a certain other band who played the same genre as him]] who were endlessly indebted to his father, that it wound up being very well received. * Sean unfortunately has decided to imitate his parents in his own [https://web.archive.org/web/20100822082516/http://www.thetripwire.com/news/2009/09/10/sean-lennon-rips-off-john-lennon/ pretty creepy way]. (Link NSFW). There's also Dhani Harrison, who is half of the alternative rock duo, thenewno2. And by the way, his voice sounds nearly identical to that of his father. And he somehow looks just like George. * He looks so much like George that during the big tribute concert that Eric Clapton arranged a year after George's death, Paul quipped that with Dhani onstage alongside himself, Ringo, Eric Clapton, Tom Petty, and a lot of George's other longtime friends, "It looks like George stayed young and all the rest of us got old." Line 480 ⟶ 482: {{reflist}} {{Grammy Award for Best New Artist}} {{Grammy Award for Album of the Year}} [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]▼ [[Category:The Sixties]]▼ [[Category:The Seventies]] [[Category:Musicians]] [[Category:Baroque Pop]] ▲[[Category:The Sixties]] [[Category:Trope Overdosed]] [[Category:Trope Makers]] [[Category:Music]] [[Category:Pages with working Wikipedia tabs]] [[Category:Musicians of the 1960s]] [[Category:Musicians of the 1970s]] [[Category:Names to Know in Music]] {{Featured Article}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Beatles (band), The}} ▲[[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]