How Did The Beatles Influence Pop Music
Beatles – The early influences and their guitars
1. Foreword
It’s been almost four decades from the decomposition of the Fab Four, also known as The Beatles, but the universal love towards the band shows no sign of fading. The nostalgia is still substantial and it’s obvious when thinking about the influence they have given to the popular culture in their active years. The essay you’re currently reading focuses on the Fab Four’s musical equipment, mainly guitars and the stories behind them.
Myself, I like to think of me as a semi-pro musician and that is the reason I find this topic quite interesting. I love my instruments and so did The Beatles. They knew what they liked, mostly knew why they liked it and had a great deal of knowledge about their musical instruments they played with.
2. First steps and First guitars
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Early Influences on the Beatles
The Beatles’ career started in 1956 when John Lennon formed his skiffle band The Quarry Men(1960 became known as The Beatles) and ended in 1970. In between that decade or so they managed to release 13 studio albums (recorded 1963-1970), so it’s like two in a year, couple of movies and enormous amount of live shows and events.
The arrival of Paul McCartney in The Quarry Men coincided with and assisted the band’s natural evolution into a rock n’ roll outfit. They skiffeled on for a few months but by March 1958 Macca’s mate George Harrison had been recruited into the group and their repertoire soon extended from the easy bluesy and jazzy numbers of skiffle to more bolder acts from Carl Perkin and Buddy Holly. At first John was a bit sceptic about taking only 14 year old Harrison to the band, but with Paul’s persuasion and after hearing Harrison playing the guitar the way he never could, he was won over. Shortly afterwards, in mid-1958, The Quarry Men recorded a demonstration disc of Holly’s “That’ll be the day” and “In Spite of all the Danger”, an early McCartney composition (Ingham,
1. Foreword
It’s been almost four decades from the decomposition of the Fab Four, also known as The Beatles, but the universal love towards the band shows no sign of fading. The nostalgia is still substantial and it’s obvious when thinking about the influence they have given to the popular culture in their active years. The essay you’re currently reading focuses on the Fab Four’s musical equipment, mainly guitars and the stories behind them.
Myself, I like to think of me as a semi-pro musician and that is the reason I find this topic quite interesting. I love my instruments and so did The Beatles. They knew what they liked, mostly knew why they liked it and had a great deal of knowledge about their musical instruments they played with.
2. First steps and First guitars
A …show more content…
Early Influences on the Beatles
The Beatles’ career started in 1956 when John Lennon formed his skiffle band The Quarry Men(1960 became known as The Beatles) and ended in 1970. In between that decade or so they managed to release 13 studio albums (recorded 1963-1970), so it’s like two in a year, couple of movies and enormous amount of live shows and events.
The arrival of Paul McCartney in The Quarry Men coincided with and assisted the band’s natural evolution into a rock n’ roll outfit. They skiffeled on for a few months but by March 1958 Macca’s mate George Harrison had been recruited into the group and their repertoire soon extended from the easy bluesy and jazzy numbers of skiffle to more bolder acts from Carl Perkin and Buddy Holly. At first John was a bit sceptic about taking only 14 year old Harrison to the band, but with Paul’s persuasion and after hearing Harrison playing the guitar the way he never could, he was won over. Shortly afterwards, in mid-1958, The Quarry Men recorded a demonstration disc of Holly’s “That’ll be the day” and “In Spite of all the Danger”, an early McCartney composition (Ingham,