In 1962, along with Ringo Starr and George Harrison, they formed the rock group known as "The Beatles". The group featured a modern rock that was new and popular during the period with Lennon and McCartney composing and singing lead vocals on most of the songs. They were backed by Harrison on rhythm and bass guitar and Ringo on drums. Harrison and Ringo also assisted on backing vocals. When they first began playing, the main influence inside the band was John Lennon, who had an uncanny ability to compose songs at a moments notice with an inspiration that others missed. He pushed the members of the band during their touring years and was able to achieve the best possible results from the group. The band began playing in a Music Hall style that is very effective for the audiences but was lacking on their albums. Together with McCartney, Lennon began to evolve the band.

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As Lennon began to use LSD in greater quantities, the other Beatles began to have more influence in the production of the albums. Lennon began to become almost reclusive, and often delayed recording sessions. By the time the Beatles were recording Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967, Lennon would simply propose songs and themes, and McCartney was left to execute the plans. "Beatles songs were quite simple in the early days, you couldn't play around with them too much. But by 1967 we were building sound pictures and my [George Martin] role had changed-it was to interpret the pictures and determine how best to get them down on tape. Paul was fine-he could express what he wanted, the sounds he wanted to have. But John...would make whooshing sounds and try to describe what only he could only hear in his head, saying he wanted a song to 'sound like an orange'."(Bates 74)

The writing of the material on The Beatles seemed more balanced as Lennon began writing more cogent songs, and collaborating on a song-by-song basis with McCartney. Their songs varied from a slow ballad in McCartney's "Blackbird" to the bizarre and intriguing "Revolution #9" by Lennon. Yet McCartney was needed to control Lennon when he recorded the original version of "Sexie Sadie" with the verse, "You little twat/ Who the *censored* do you think you are/ Who the *censored* do you think you are/ Oh, you cunt." Fortunately McCartney prevented the track from preceding any farther than rehearsal. He ended up suggesting that the song take a more sympathetic note and, eventually, Lennon agreed. During this time, one almost constant presence in the recording studio was Yoko Ono, John's wife. This was against an unspoken code amongst the Beatles not to allow wives and girlfriends into the studio. Yoko had a large affect on John, almost completely altering his style, and inspiring t

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