When we look at the beginning, it all ready started 1956, when John Lennon started the group, The Quarrymen. 1957 the friend Paul McCartney came to the group. They started now a cooperate as composers and a couple of years later(-58), George Harrison completed the group. During the autumn they used the name, Johnny and the Moondogs. They played now often in Liverpool and the people began to like them...
One of their first public gig was at the Liverpool-club The Cavern. One of the spectators was Brian Epstein. He had a record store in the town and he knew the boys. He was very imprest by their gig, and he wanted to be their manager. They couldn�t said no to a offer like that!
Pete Best didn�t feel comfortable in the band and 1962 Ringo Starr(Richard Starkey) replaced him. He had before that played in a group called Rory Storm and The Hurricanes. The same year, Sutcliffe died in Hamburg and Paul McCartney said that he could play the bass. In October 1962 their first single, Love Me Do came out and it was more or less a hit. From now they were touring in the whole country, and with the new song, Please Please Me they achieved the first place at the hitlist. More early songs that raised the first place was She Loves You, and From Me To You. Now the real �Beatlemania� broke out. The same year they visited Sweden for the first time. Now USA waited for them. Brian Epstein and their producer George Martin wanted to go there. But The Beatles said: "We�re not goin� to America until we�ve got a number one there!" So instead they went to France, and after a show they got a telegram to the hotel: "Capitol Records congratulates you, number one in US charts." So after France they went to US
A, and they made a great success.
After a big tour in America they went back to England. There they started to make their first movie, A Hard Day�s Night.
The year was 1965 and now The Beatles was touring around the whole world. They also got medals by their queen. Help was the name of the new record and their second movie. It was a million seller.
In the end of 1965 they played at The Shea Stadium in New York, in front of a record public with 55 000 people. Nobody had played for so many people before.
The music started now to be more varyating and George Harrison was inspired by Indian music. Example for that can you hear on the record Rubber Soul. They were now touring in Asia with new songs like Paperback Writer. They went to the Philippines, but now they didn�t feel happy. It was too much, the �Beatlemania� everywhere and they were very tired. In the end of 1966 they played at Candelstick Park in San Fransisco. It was their last official gig ever.
Now they had more time to make records and 1967 they made Sergeant Pepper�s Lonely Hearts Club Band and the singles All you need is Love and Penny Lane / Strawberry fields forever. They said: "The records are now our performance". Those records counts to The Beatles greatest. Later they did their own produced tv-film Magical Mystery Tour (also a record). 1968 they made "The white album". 1969 they did Let It Be. They all were very tired, and they thought that the recordings would be the last. But they thought that Let It Be was too sad and that�s why they did Abbey Road (first-realeased). Their last gig was on the roof to the Apple-building in London. In April 1970 The Beatles declared dead. The members continued to make music on their own. Their records are still selling, and the new Anthology-records have sold very much.
The Beatles were, are and maybe remain the most popular musical group ever!
- George, a schoolmate of Paul, joins the Quarry Men
- They paid 17s6d to record Buddy Holly's That'll Be The Day and a Harrison/McCartney composition In Spite Of All The Danger
- The group's name is changed to Johnny & The Moondogs
- Pete Best joins the group as drummer
- A decision is made to replace Pete with Ringo (July 7 1940)
- The Beatles debut single, Love Me Do is released and reaches UK#17
- From Me To You, Please Please Me, She Loves You and I Want To Hold Your Hand and tops UK chart
- Please Please Me and With The Beatles tops UK chart
- Meet The Beatles! tops US chart
- The Australian chart published: #1 I Saw Her Standing There #2 Love Me Do #3 Roll Over Beethoven #4 All My Loving #5 She Loves You #6 I Want To Hold Your Hand
- The Billboard chart reads: #1 Can't Buy Me Love #2 Twist and Shout #3 She Loves You #4 I Want To Hold Your Hand #5 Please Please Me
- Can't Buy Me Love tops UK chart
- Beatles For Sale tops UK chart
- A Hard Day's Night tops UK and US chart
- A Hard Day's Night and I Feel Fine tops UK and US chart
She's A Woman hits US #4
- Help! tops UK and US chart
- Rubber Soul tops UK chart
- Nowhere Man hits US #3
- Paperback Writer tops UK and US chart
- Yesterday...and Today tops US chart
- Revolver tops UK and US chart
- Yellow Submarine and Eleanor Rigby tops UK chart
- Yellow Submarine hits US #2 and Got To Get You Into My Life hits UK #6
- Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields Forever hits UK #2
- Penny Lane, All You Need Is Love and Hello Goodbye tops UK and US charts
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band tops UK and US charts
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is critically revered as perhaps the "best" album in rock history, and is seen by others at the climax of the group's career
- The Beatles form Apple Publishing Limited
- Sgt. Pepper wins Album Of The Year,
- Best Contempory Album, Best Engineered Recording and Best Album Cover at the 10th Grammy Awards
- Lady Madonna tops UK chart and hits US #4
- Hey Jude tops UK and US charts
- The White Album tops UK and US charts
- Lennon marries Yoko Ono
- Lennon changes his middle name from Winston to Ono
- Get Back tops UK and US charts
- Hey Jude wins Ivor Novello Award
- The Ballad Of John And Yoko tops UK chart, and it's the group last UK #1
- Abbey Road tops UK and US charts
- Come Together and Something tops US charts and both songs hits UK #4
- Let It Be hits UK #2
- Paul quits the Beatles, and the Beatles broke up
- Let It Be tops US charts
- Let It Be tops UK and US charts
- Let It Be wins an Oscar for Best Film Music
- Beatles released a 10-hour documentary called Anthology
- Sir Paul McCartney receives Knighthood
-Best vocal performance by duo or group - Free As A Bird
-Best video (short form) - Free As A Bird
-Best video (long form) - Anthology Series