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Welcome To The Beatles Wiki! A wiki founded in 2006 by Vidur about the world's greatest musical act, adopted by Nobody Cares and ListentoMusic in 2010, by Glamra in 2013, KirbyTheBulborb in 2021, and again by BootlegsATrolley in 2024. Ever since 2006, this wiki has given the finest wiki information about The Beatles. And you can help! (Not sure how you can help? Check out this wiki's to-do list.)

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Beatles News

Rutherford Chang, Who Turned Collections Into Art, Dies at 45 - Richard Sandomir - 2025/02/11 20:01

He was best known for amassing more than 3,400 copies of the Beatles’ “White Album” and using them to demonstrate the aging of a cultural artifact....

Beyoncé and Young Women Pop Sensations Lead 2025 Grammy Nominations - Ben Sisario - 2025/02/03 07:00

Charli XCX, Billie Eilish, Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter will compete in the biggest categories, along with Taylor Swift and Kendrick Lamar....

Grammys Snubs and Surprises: Charli XCX, André 3000, the Beatles and More - Elena Bergeron, Jon Caramanica, Joe Coscarelli, Jon Pareles and Lindsay Zoladz - 2025/02/03 06:59

A look at the nominations’ unexpected and intriguing story lines, including the role of an absent Drake, the validation of André 3000’s flute music and overlooked gems....

John Lennon visitó mi escuela cuando yo tenía 8 años, ¿o me lo imaginé? - Laurie Gwen Shapiro - 2025/01/26 06:01

Una historia de recuerdos confusos, una estrella del rock reticente y un día especial de 1973. ¿O fue en 1974?...

John Lennon Came to My School When I Was 8. Or Did I Imagine It? - Laurie Gwen Shapiro - 2025/01/22 02:49

A story of hazy memories, a reluctant rock star and a special day in 1973. Or was it 1974?...

Featured Song

I'll Cry Instead/I'm Happy Just To Dance With You single cover

'I'm Happy Just to Dance with You' is mainly a John Lennon composition (credited to Lennon/McCartney) recorded by The Beatles for the film soundtrack to A Hard Day's Night, and first released on 1 March 1964.

Featured Album

Anthology 1 is a compilation album by The Beatles, released on Apple Records in November 1995. It is the

first of a three-volume collection, all of which tie-in with the televised special The Beatles Anthology, and contains 'Free as a Bird,' billed as the first new Beatles song in 25 years. It topped the Billboard 200 album chart, and was certified 4x Platinum by the RIAA. Read More...

Featured Article

Stuart Sutcliffe (23 June 1940 – 10 April 1962) was a former member and bass player of The Quarrymen. Sutcliffe is one of the group of people sometimes referred to as "The Fifth Beatle". Sutcliffe and John Lennon are credited with coming up with the name for the Beatles, as they both liked Buddy Holly's band, The Crickets. Sutcliffe played with the Beatles in Hamburg, where he met photographer Astrid Kirchherr, to whom he was later engaged. He enrolled in the Hamburg College of Art after leaving The Beatles, and studied under future pop artist Eduardo Paolozzi.

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Did You Know...

...that Say Say Say, the duet by Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson, is credited for the introduction of dialogue and storyline into music videos?
...that the first song the Beatles recorded was In Spite of All the Danger?
...that John Lennon started and ended The Beatles?
...that Brian Epstein was gay?
...that Paul McCartney and George Harrison were best friends since they met on the school bus in 1954?
...that the full interviews of John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and George Harrison are viewable on the Dick Cavett Show page?
...that with the addition of the Hey Jude Disambiguation page, the Beatles Wiki became officially 'evil' (666 pages)?
...that both Cynthia Lennon and Yoko Ono were older than John?
...that John Lennon and Cynthia Lennon had birthdays on consecutive days of the month? (9 October and 10 September, respectively.)
- ...that the above means that their birthdays are 9/10 and 10/9, although which is which depends on which date format you use?

The Beatles

No band has influenced pop culture the way The Beatles have. They were one of the best things to happen in the twentieth century, let alone the Sixties. They were youth personified. They were unmatched innovators who were bigger than both Jesus and rock & roll itself: During the week of 4 April 1964, the Beatles held the first five slots on the Billboard Singles chart; they went on to sell more than a billion records; and 2000's 1 , a compilation of the Beatles Number One hits, hit Number One in 35 countries and went on to become the best-selling album of the 2000s.

Every record was a shock when it came out. Compared to rabid R&B evangelists like the Rolling Stones, the Beatles arrived sounding like nothing else. They had already absorbed Buddy Holly, the Everly Brothers and Chuck Berry, but they were also writing their own songs. They made writing your own material expected, rather than exceptional. As musicians, the Beatles proved that rock & roll could embrace a limitless variety of harmonies, structures, and sounds; virtually every rock experiment has some precedent on Beatles records. As a unit the Beatles were a synergistic combination: Paul McCartney's melodic bass lines, Ringo Starr's slaphappy no-rolls drumming, George Harrison's rockabilly-style guitar leads, John Lennon's assertive rhythm guitar — and their four fervent voices. As personalities, they defined and incarnated Sixties style: smart, idealistic, playful, irreverent, eclectic. Their music, from the not-so-simple love songs they started with to their later perfectionistic studio extravaganzas, set new standards for both commercial and artistic success in pop.

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