The Beatles
...maintain public appeal for an entire decade. The Beatles, however, are an entirely different story. Greatly impacted by their own lives and the influenced by the circumstances of their generation, the Beatles became possibly the most popular pop band of all time. The group employed several constituent parts of drama with in their musical career: spectacle and character delineation. Spectacle seems to be an aspect of drama the group was naturally blessed with, but it was in their later works that they were able to use character delineation in their work.
In 1957, at a church picnic, John Lennon, 17, was introduced to Paul McCartney, 15. McCartney began showing Lennon several guitar cords and from that moment the two began on a journey to musical fame and success. The name of their original pair was The Quarry Men, after the high school Lennon attended, Quarry Bank High. George Harrison would soon join the two in their musical endeavors along with Pete Best on drums, would become The Beatles, a name created as a pun in honor of Buddy Holly's band, The Crickets. In 1960, the group played at the Liverpool College of Art, where Lennon was completing his third year, every Friday afternoon. After being hired by Larry Parnes and Billy Fury, the group went on their first tour with Johnnie Gentle, followed by a four month trip to Hamburg, Germany where the group spent their time honing their skills and perfecting their sound, then made their first recording with Tony Sheridan, an English Singer.
From the very beginning of this groups' musical career, they had certain qualities that set them apart from the other Elvis impersonators, so popular in England at the time. The furious energy with which they resurrected original style rock and roll, the intelligence with which Lennon and McCartney jointly pursued the craft of popular songwriting, and the way the...
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