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The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band from the city of Liverpool. The band had four members: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. The Beatles became one of the biggest rock bands in the world in the 1960s.
John Lennon started a band with several of his friends in March 1957 when he was only 16 years old. It wasn’t called the Beatles at that time. Paul McCartney joined the band in the same year when he was 15 years old. In February 1958, McCartney invited his friend, George Harrison, to come and watch them play in a club. Not long after that, Harrison joined the band, too. Both McCartney and Harrison played guitars. In 1962, Ringo Starr became the last person to join the Beatles. Starr played the drums. He got some drums for his birthday when he was a child and that’s how he became interested in playing them.
In the early days, the band played in lots of small bars and clubs in Liverpool and their first hit was a song called Love Me Do. The band quickly became popular in the UK and, by 1964, they were famous all over the world.
They met their manager, a man called Brian Epstein, at the Cavern Club in Liverpool. Epstein was very interested in the band and immediately became good friends with them. He started work as their manager in 1961. Epstein later said, “I immediately liked what I heard. They were fresh, and they were honest...a star quality.” The Beatles recorded their first album at the Abbey Road Studios in London. It was called Please Please Me and every song on the album went to number one.
During the 1960s, the Beatles went on tour several times. Some of the countries they visited were the USA, Denmark, Hong Kong, New Zealand, and Australia. The band was popular until 1970, when they stopped making music together. Now – more than 50 years later – people still love their music and their Greatest Hits album sold 13 million copies in a month
Example: The Beatles were one of the world’s most famous rock bands.
11. Paul McCartney was ______ years old when he started to work with John Lennon.