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In March 1957 John Lennon, then aged sixteen, formed a skiffle group with several friends
from school. They briefly called themselves the Blackjacks, Fifteen-year-old Paul McCartney
  joined as a guitarist shortly after he and Lennon met that July.In February 1958 McCartney
 invited his friend George Harrison to watch the group. The fourteen-year-old auditioned for
   Lennon, who was impressed by his playing but initially thought him too young for the band.
                 After a month of persistence, Harrison joined as lead guitarist.
 The Beatles' first recording session under Martin's direction took place at EMI's Abbey Road
  Studios in London on 6 June 1962. He immediately complained to Epstein about Best's poor
      drumming and suggested they use a session drummer in his stead. The band, already
           contemplating his dismissal, replaced him in mid-August with Ringo Starr,
(1)




  After the moderate success of "Love Me Do", "Please Please Me" met with a
more emphatic reception. Released in January 1963, it reached number one on
  every national chart except Record Retailer, where it stalled at number two.
Ten songs were recorded for Please Please Me, accompanied by the four tracks
already released on their two singles. Recalling how the band "rushed to deliver
   a debut album, bashing out Please Please Me in a day", "Lennon said little
thought went into composition at the time; he and McCartney were "just writing
songs à la Everly Brothers, à la Buddy Holly, pop songs with no more thought of
   them than that to create a sound. And the words were almost irrelevant.“
(2)




  Released in March 1963, the album reached number one on the top four British charts,
 initiating a run during which eleven of their twelve studio albums released in the United
  Kingdom through 1970 reached number one.The band's third single, "From Me to You",
came out in April and was also a chart-topping hit, starting an almost unbroken string of
 seventeen British number one singles for the band, including all but one of the eighteen
 they released over the next six years. Released in August, the band's fourth single, "She
   Loves You", achieved the fastest sales of any record in the UK up to that time, selling
three-quarters of a million copies in under four weeks. It became their first single to sell
a million copies, and remained the biggest-selling record in the UK until 1978 when it was
          surpassed by "Mull of Kintyre", by McCartney's post-Beatles band, Wings.
      As their popularity spread, a frenzied adulation of the group took hold; they were
        greeted with riotous enthusiasm by screaming fans—a phenomenon dubbed
                                        "Beatlemania".
(1)




   In June 1966, Yesterday and Today a compilation album created by Capitol
 Records for the US market caused an uproar over its cover, which portrayed
 the grinning Beatles dressed in butcher's overalls, accompanied by raw meat
and mutilated plastic baby dolls. It has been suggested that this was meant as a
 satirical response to the way Capitol had "butchered" the US versions of their
   albums.Thousands of copies of the album had a new cover pasted over the
  original; an unpeeled "first-state" copy fetched $10,500 at a December 2005
 auction. In England, meanwhile, Harrison met sitar maestro Ravi Shankar, who
                      agreed to train him on the instrument.
(2)




   they made their first visit to India.Almost as soon as they returned home, they faced a fierce
      backlash from US religious and social conservatives (as well as the Ku Klux Klan) over a
           comment Lennon had made in a March interview with British reporter Maureen
  Cleave:"Christianity will go," Lennon said. "It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that;
 I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will
 go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity. Jesus was alright but his disciples were thick and ordinary.
  It's them twisting it that ruins it for me."The comment went virtually unnoticed in England, but
 when US teenage fan magazine Datebook printed it five months later—on the eve of the group's
     final US tour it created a controversy with Christians in the American "Bible Belt".Epstein
publicly criticised Datebook, saying they had taken Lennon's words out of context, and at a press
conference Lennon pointed out, "If I'd said television was more popular than Jesus, I might have
  got away with it." Lennon claimed he was referring to how other people viewed their success,
but when prompted by reporters he concluded by saying, "If you want me to apologise, if that will
                                 make you happy, then okay, I'm sorry."
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The Beatles I

  • 8. In March 1957 John Lennon, then aged sixteen, formed a skiffle group with several friends from school. They briefly called themselves the Blackjacks, Fifteen-year-old Paul McCartney joined as a guitarist shortly after he and Lennon met that July.In February 1958 McCartney invited his friend George Harrison to watch the group. The fourteen-year-old auditioned for Lennon, who was impressed by his playing but initially thought him too young for the band. After a month of persistence, Harrison joined as lead guitarist. The Beatles' first recording session under Martin's direction took place at EMI's Abbey Road Studios in London on 6 June 1962. He immediately complained to Epstein about Best's poor drumming and suggested they use a session drummer in his stead. The band, already contemplating his dismissal, replaced him in mid-August with Ringo Starr,
  • 9. (1) After the moderate success of "Love Me Do", "Please Please Me" met with a more emphatic reception. Released in January 1963, it reached number one on every national chart except Record Retailer, where it stalled at number two. Ten songs were recorded for Please Please Me, accompanied by the four tracks already released on their two singles. Recalling how the band "rushed to deliver a debut album, bashing out Please Please Me in a day", "Lennon said little thought went into composition at the time; he and McCartney were "just writing songs à la Everly Brothers, à la Buddy Holly, pop songs with no more thought of them than that to create a sound. And the words were almost irrelevant.“
  • 10. (2) Released in March 1963, the album reached number one on the top four British charts, initiating a run during which eleven of their twelve studio albums released in the United Kingdom through 1970 reached number one.The band's third single, "From Me to You", came out in April and was also a chart-topping hit, starting an almost unbroken string of seventeen British number one singles for the band, including all but one of the eighteen they released over the next six years. Released in August, the band's fourth single, "She Loves You", achieved the fastest sales of any record in the UK up to that time, selling three-quarters of a million copies in under four weeks. It became their first single to sell a million copies, and remained the biggest-selling record in the UK until 1978 when it was surpassed by "Mull of Kintyre", by McCartney's post-Beatles band, Wings. As their popularity spread, a frenzied adulation of the group took hold; they were greeted with riotous enthusiasm by screaming fans—a phenomenon dubbed "Beatlemania".
  • 11. (1) In June 1966, Yesterday and Today a compilation album created by Capitol Records for the US market caused an uproar over its cover, which portrayed the grinning Beatles dressed in butcher's overalls, accompanied by raw meat and mutilated plastic baby dolls. It has been suggested that this was meant as a satirical response to the way Capitol had "butchered" the US versions of their albums.Thousands of copies of the album had a new cover pasted over the original; an unpeeled "first-state" copy fetched $10,500 at a December 2005 auction. In England, meanwhile, Harrison met sitar maestro Ravi Shankar, who agreed to train him on the instrument.
  • 12. (2) they made their first visit to India.Almost as soon as they returned home, they faced a fierce backlash from US religious and social conservatives (as well as the Ku Klux Klan) over a comment Lennon had made in a March interview with British reporter Maureen Cleave:"Christianity will go," Lennon said. "It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity. Jesus was alright but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me."The comment went virtually unnoticed in England, but when US teenage fan magazine Datebook printed it five months later—on the eve of the group's final US tour it created a controversy with Christians in the American "Bible Belt".Epstein publicly criticised Datebook, saying they had taken Lennon's words out of context, and at a press conference Lennon pointed out, "If I'd said television was more popular than Jesus, I might have got away with it." Lennon claimed he was referring to how other people viewed their success, but when prompted by reporters he concluded by saying, "If you want me to apologise, if that will make you happy, then okay, I'm sorry."