The History of Art, Changed

Many artists and musicians have a claim to fame Elvis Presley is The King of swing-and-roll, Michael capital of Mississippi is The King of pop, Miles Davis made jazz what it is today. But perhaps the only melodious artists that are known for having changed an entire era of youth musically, politically, socially, and even economically are The Beatles. john, capital of Minnesota, George, and Ringo are four names that when said together will, in most cases, solicit the same response The Beatles.There was Beatlemania, Ed Sullivan, previous(predicate) years, transition years, drug years, war years, the fighting, and of course, the break-up. Their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show is just as vivid in the memories of baby boomers as is the memory of John F. Kennedys assassination. Perhaps most surprising is that The Beatles did in 8 years what most artists cant do in a life time they impacted youth culture and became arguably the most well known artists in history.In 1956, at th e eld of 16, John Lennon started a band by the name of the Quarrymen (Schaffner 12). Playing broadly speaking in local clubs, The Quarrymen were a neighborhood band. On July 6, 1957 John Lennon would gain Paul McCartney for the first time. One of Johns band mates, Ivan Vaughan, also a mate of fifteen year old Paul McCartney, invited Paul to the St. Peters Church in Woolton, Liverpool where the Quarrymen would be playing.Introductions were made Paul picked up a guitar and John was very impressed with Paul, not only because he could play so well but because he could tune a guitar, a feat that the others had not yet mastered. A few days later while travel his bicycle, Paul ran into Pete Shotton, one of the Quarrymen. Pete told Paul that they had talked it over and John wanted Paul to join the band. After a moments contemplation, Paul replied Oh, all right (Goldman 72). John and Paul quickly became friends, and the historic song writing duo was born.Ivan Vaughn would go on to intr oduce John and Paul to George Harrison. Paul discovered that the xiv year old George knew dozens more chords than he and John arrange together (Giuliano 28). George could also pick out actual solos instead of but strumming (Goldman 75). The bands name went from Quarrymen to The Silver Beetles, and finally to the Beatles. One of Johns rock n roll heroes was Buddy Holly whose band was called the Crickets so John tried to dream up an insect name of his own. The result was Beetles, but unable to remain firm the pun, he changed Beet to Beat.Explained John, When you said it, people thought of crawly things, when you subscribe it it was beat music (Schaffner 19). Members were added and thrown out of the group eventually leaving only John, Paul, and George. On a brief outing to Hamburg, the three members would welcome a drummer by the name of Richard Starkey, later to be known as Ringo Starr. He got the name Ringo for the many rings he wore on his fingers. On January 24, 1962, the Be atles signed a management contract with Brian Epstein.