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The Beatles-the singer-guitarists Paul McCartney, John Lennon, and George Harrison, and the drummer Ringo Starr-have been the most influential performing group in the history of rock. Their music, hairstyle, dress, and lifestyle were imitated all over the world, resulting in a phenomenon known as Beatlemania. All four Beatles were born during the early 1940s in Liverpool, England, and dropped out of school in their teens to devote themselves to rock. Lennon and McCartney, the main songwriters of the group, began working together in 1956 and were joined by Harrison about two years later. In 1962 Ringo Starr became their new drummer. The group gained experience by performing in Hamburg, Germany; and in Liverpool, a port to which sailors brough
The Beatles stopped touring in 1966, possibly because some of their most imaginative effects were achieved in the recording studio and could not be duplicated in live performance. For several years they devoted themselves to recording, producing such long-playing albums as Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1976), The Beatles (1968; a double record set nicknamed the "white album"), and Abbey Road (1969). The Beatles' vocal delivery sounded carefree and spontaneous, and Lennon's and McCartney's lyrics were unusually inventive. Their songs were often based on modes-rather than major or minor scales-and their harmonic vocabulary was richer than that of most rock. Sometimes their songs contained changes of meter and phrases of irregular len
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