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The Beatles' influence on rock music and world culture was – and remains – profound. Before their emergence as pop superstars, it was common for rock bands to rely on professional songwriters for their material (the Brill Building in New York City was a source of many hit singles in the early 1960s) and to rely heavily on studio musicians for their recordings. Image File history File links Stop_hand. ... The Beatles were a British rock music group from Liverpool, England held in very high regard for both their artistic achievements and their considerable commercial success, and have amassed an enormous worldwide fanbase that continues to exist to this day. ... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... The Brill Building (1930- ) in the United States is located at 1619 Broadway, in New York City, New York, just north of Times Square. ... Nickname: The Big Apple Motto: Official website: City of New York Location [[Image:|250px|250px|Location of City of New York, New York]] Location in the state of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R... The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive. ...

It has been said that after the Beatles' initial appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, many who saw them perform were inspired to quickly form rock groups. The Byrds are one of innumerable groups of that era who cite seeing A Hard Day's Night as one of their major sources of inspiration. Ed Sullivan The Ed Sullivan Show was an American television variety show that ran from June 20, 1948, to June 6, 1971, and was hosted by Ed Sullivan. ... The Byrds (formed in Los Angeles, California in 1964) were an American rock group. ... This article is about the film. ...

Like The Shadows before them, The Beatles created a new paradigm for performers in popular music. Their multiple talents enabled them to combine the instrumental abilities of groups like The Shadows, the vocal harmony singing of acts such as The Everly Brothers and a songwriting strength of writer-performers like Buddy Holly and Bob Dylan. The Shadows are a British instrumental rock n roll group active from the 1950s to the 2000s. ... Don (born Isaac Donald Everly February 1, 1937 in Brownie, a small coal-mining town (now defunct) near Central City, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky) and Phil Everly (born Philip Everly January 19, 1939 in Chicago, Illinois) are country-influenced rock and roll performers who had their greatest success in the 1950s. ... Charles Hardin Holley (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959), better known as Buddy Holly, was an American singer, songwriter, and a pioneer of Rock and Roll. ... Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman on 24 May 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and poet whose enduring contributions to American song are comparable, in fame and influence, to those of Stephen Foster, Irving Berlin, Woody Guthrie, and Hank Williams. ...

Their concert performances in the mid 1960s electrified audiences and provided a huge burst of inspiration for local musicians in the countries they visited. Within a few months of their June 1964 visit to Australia, The Beatles' influence had transformed the local pop scene and saw the creation of hundreds of Beatle-style bands around the country. A similar scene was enacted, albeit on a smaller scale, in New Zealand.

But, despite their vast importance, the longterm cultural impact of The Beatles, especially in comparison with other recording artists of the 20th century, is still in debate. Many would say that The Beatles' influence and importance has been over-estimated - in 1998, for example, electronica magazine 'Muzik' cited "Tomorrow Never Knows" as the most important dance record ever released: many would claim this to be a fanciful assertion on reflection, despite the single's forays into the technological. (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the... Tomorrow Never Knows is the final track of The Beatles 1966 studio album Revolver, but it was the first to be recorded for the album. ...

Others would argue that The Beatles' influence, although great, is little or no greater than that of many other artists (see Robert Johnson and Miles Davis) and that The Beatles' influence has simply been stated more often, and with greater enthusiasm, than that of arguably equally important artists. Robert Johnson Robert Leroy Johnson (May 8, 1909/1912 – August 16, 1938) can arguably be considered as the most famous Delta blues singer and guitarist in history, even though he didnt live to see his thirtieth birthday and didnt start recording until three years before his death. ... Davis 1959 album Kind of Blue, likely the best-selling jazz album ever. ...

It should at least, they say, be noted that many of The Beatles' influences on culture have been distinct from their actual talents as musicians of course - witness the oft-emulated moptop haircuts and Rickenbacker guitars for examples. And it has been said also that much of their musical innovations were merely popularising old practices. The Beatles, each sporting the eponymous hairstyle The Beatle haircut, also known as the mop-top (for its resemblance to a mop) is a mid-length hairstyle named for and popularized by the British rock group the Beatles. ... Punk/new wave group The Jams Bruce Foxton (left) on a Rickenbacker bass and Paul Weller on a Rickenbacker guitar Rickenbacker is one of the oldest brand names in the manufacture of electric guitars. ...

All this aside, The Beatles' legacy is of course tremendous, and they are popularly conceived to be one of the most influential artists of the last century. In October 2005, Variety Magazine named The Beatles the #1 icons of the 20th Century, beating Louis Armstrong and Lucille Ball. (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the... Louis Daniel Armstrong (usually pronounced Louee in the French pronunciation with a silent s) (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971) (also known by the nicknames Satchmo and Pops) was an American jazz musician. ... Lucille Ball Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an American actress, comedian and star of I Love Lucy. ...

The music

Composition and recording

Whilst by no means the first to do so (Buddy Holly composed his hits, for example), the Beatles' example made self-composition the standard for rock bands then and since. Although they did not necessarily invent all the new ideas they incorporated in their music, they often competed with and played off the developing ideas of other prominent acts of the period (such as Bob Dylan, The Byrds, and the Beach Boys). As such, they spurred rock music, which hitherto had been largely looked down upon by older music fans, towards becoming an accepted art form. When the Sgt. Pepper album was released, it was hailed by music critics of the time as a major work of art, even compared favorably to classical musicians such as Schubert and Schumann. Within days of its release, the album's title song was being covered by artists like Jimi Hendrix. Charles Hardin Holley (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959), better known as Buddy Holly, was an American singer, songwriter, and a pioneer of Rock and Roll. ... Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman on 24 May 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and poet whose enduring contributions to American song are comparable, in fame and influence, to those of Stephen Foster, Irving Berlin, Woody Guthrie, and Hank Williams. ... The Byrds (formed in Los Angeles, California in 1964) were an American rock group. ... The Beach Boys 1976 album 15 big ones The Beach Boys are a pop music group formed in Hawthorne, California in 1961, whose popularity has lasted into the twenty-first century. ... Sgt. ... For the crater on the moon, see Schubert (crater) Franz Schubert Franz Peter Schubert (January 31, 1797 – November 19, 1828), was an Austrian composer. ... Robert Schumann (June 8, 1810 – July 29, 1856) was a German composer and pianist. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

In the studio, The Beatles were always experimenting with new recording techniques and even coined a few common studio phrases that are still in use today. For example, a common vocal or guitar effect where two copies of the same sound are overlapped and time-shifted slightly (producing a swirling, swishing sound), is now known as flanging, thanks to John Lennon, who named the effect in the 1960s. Flanging is a time-domain based audio effect that occurs when two identical signals are mixed together, but with one signal time-delayed by a small and gradually changing amount, usually smaller than 20 ms (milliseconds). ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive. ...

The Beatles' use of various instruments is regarded as highly innovative. With the help of George Martin, they made wide use of string and brass overdubs for a variety of different musical effects and experimented with some more unconventional instruments. An early example is the string arrangement on "Yesterday"; other notable examples include the use of the sitar on "Norwegian Wood", the exclusive accompaniment of a string octet on "Eleanor Rigby", and the amusing orchestral arrangement (with an initial reference to "La Marseillaise") of "All You Need Is Love". Sir George Martin Sir George Martin CBE (born January 3, 1926) is sometimes referred to as the fifth Beatle, a title that he owes to his work as producer of almost all of the Beatles records. ... Les Paul, a pioneer of multi-track recording. ... The song Yesterday by Paul McCartney was originally recorded by The Beatles for their album Help! in 1965. ... Premla Shahane playing a sitar, 1927 The sitar is a Hindustani classical instrument. ... Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) is a song by The Beatles which first appeared on the 1965 album Rubber Soul. ... Eleanor Rigby is a song by the Beatles, originally released on the album Revolver by EMI/Parlophone Records. ... La Marseillaise is the national anthem of France. ... All You Need Is Love is a song written by John Lennon (although credited to Lennon-McCartney) and first performed by The Beatles on Our World, the first ever live global television link. ...

Instrumentation

The popularity of the individual Beatles combined with their considerable instrumental skills led to a better knowledge in the general public of the musical contributions made by lead guitar, rhythm guitar, drums, and particularly bass guitar. For other kinds of drums, see drum (disambiguation). ... Bass guitars typically have four strings instead of six as found on regular guitars. ...

Paul McCartney was not only cute and loveable, he was also a very melodic bassist and listeners learned to listen more carefully because of it. Paul McCartney (1964) Sir Dr. h. ...

While not flashy, Ringo Starr's drumming was tasteful, precise, and imaginative. Ringo also changed the traditional way of holding drum sticks. Before Ringo, nearly all drummers held drum sticks with the "traditional" grip, with the left hand stick held like a chopstick. Now, most percussionists play holding the drum sticks in the "matched" grip, like Ringo. Ringo used Ludwig drum sets, which quickly became the standard brand of drum sets in rock and roll bands. Ringo Starr as photographed by John Kelly for the 1968 LP The Beatles (aka The White Album). Richard Starkey, MBE (born July 7, 1940 in Liverpool, England), known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is a popular British musician, best known as drummer for The Beatles. ... A drum stick or drumstick is an item used to hit percussion instruments, including but not only drums, to produce sound. ... 2005 Ludwig Amber Vista-Lite Drumkit Neil Peart and his Ludwig drum kit Ludwig-Musser is a drum and percussion instrument manufacturer owned by Conn-Selmer, Inc. ...

The Beatles were legendarily rejected by Decca Records because "guitar bands are passé", but John Lennon and George Harrison disproved that. Even the brand of instruments used by the band became more popular because of the band. Rickenbacker guitars have been widely used by rock and roll bands since the mid 1960s, thanks in part to Lennon's heavy use of the guitar. Decca Records is a record label that was established in 1929. ... John Winston Lennon (later John Ono Lennon) (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980) was best known as a singer, songwriter, poet and guitarist for the British rock band The Beatles. ... George Harold Harrison, MBE (February 25, 1943 – November 29, 2001) was a popular British guitarist, singer, songwriter, record producer, and film producer, best known as a member of The Beatles. ... Punk/new wave group The Jams Bruce Foxton (left) on a Rickenbacker bass and Paul Weller on a Rickenbacker guitar Rickenbacker is one of the oldest brand names in the manufacture of electric guitars. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive. ...

The Hofner violin bass (or "Beatle Bass" as it would commonly be called nowadays) was styled after one of the very first Gibson electric basses, the EB-1. Karl Höfner GmbH is a German manufacturer of musical instruments, now part of The Music Group. ... Gibson Guitar Corporation is one of the worlds best-known manufacturers of acoustic and electric guitars. ...

George Harrison was also the first musician of a pop group in the sixties to make use of the sitar. Because of its psychedelic sound, the instrument would soon be used by many other bands, such as The Rolling Stones, Love and Donovan. Ravi Shankar, who taught the sitar to George Harrison, would even be part of the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. The 1960s, or The Sixties, in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ... Premla Shahane playing a sitar, 1927 The sitar is a Hindustani classical instrument. ... -1... Love was an American rock group of the late 1960s and early 1970s. ... Donovan Leitch Donovan Philips Leitch (usually known simply as Donovan) (born May 10, 1946) is a Scottish musician. ... Pandit Ravi Shankar, Sitar Maestro © www. ... The Monterey International Pop Music Festival took place from June 16 to June 18, 1967. ...

The Hofner version of the violin bass was popular among the bands playing around Germany in the early 1960s, largely because it was cheap. McCartney's use of the instrument led bassists all over the world to buy Hofners, in spite of the fact that at the time, it was generally not considered a high quality instrument and even had difficulty staying in tune. To this very day, it is quite common to see the Hofner "Beatle Bass" being used by up and coming bands on MTV and in concert, which probably would not have happened without the Beatles. A large number of guitar manufacturers have copied the iconic design of the 'violin bass', such as Tanglewood, Cort and Epiphone. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Epiphone Emperor Epiphone is the name of a guitar manufacturer. ...

McCartney returned to using his original iconic violin bass in later years (1988 onwards) and features it regularly on tour, where it gets almost as much applause as he does.

In later years, from around the time of Revolver, Paul McCartney was to be seen sporting a fine-looking fireglo-finish Rickenbacker 4001 bass (see "Hello Goodbye" video, where it was given a psychedelic paintjob). The use of this bass is not as well remembered, as The Beatles ceased touring not long after McCartney took delivery of it. Paul later used it quite extensively on the road with Wings, the paintjob removed and the bass sanded down to a natural finish. Core members of Wings, Linda McCartney, Paul McCartney and Denny Laine. ...

Length of Songs

The Beatles, along with several other artists such as Bob Dylan, and Pink Floyd pushed the boundary for just how long a standard pop single could be, recording songs of up to 4 or 5 minutes, which for the time, was twice the length of the average pop single, and seemed gargantuan by most people's standards. However, by the end of the decade, 3-4 minute singles were quite common. This is generally accepted as being due to the influence of the Fab Four. Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman on 24 May 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and poet whose enduring contributions to American song are comparable, in fame and influence, to those of Stephen Foster, Irving Berlin, Woody Guthrie, and Hank Williams. ... Pink Floyd (formed in 1965 in Cambridge, England) is an English rock music band, noted for progressive compositions, philosophic lyrics, sonic experimentation, cover art and elaborate live shows. ...

The album format

Prior to The Beatles, record albums were of secondary consideration to 45s in mass marketing. Albums largely contained filler material along with one or two worthwhile singles. The Beatles, with the ability to produce albums with consistently well-regarded material and the desire to rarely use singles as part of full albums, helped to define the album as the preferred mechanism for releasing popular music, which in turn resulted in the development of new FM radio formats such as Album-oriented rock (AOR) in the 1970s. The Beatles' song "Hey Jude" was memorable in its time for helping to break down the barriers around pop music. 33⅓ LP vinyl record album The vinyl record is a type of gramophone record, most popular from the 1950s to the 1990s, that was most commonly used for mass-produced recordings of music. ... FM radio is a broadcast technology invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong that uses frequency modulation to provide high-fidelity broadcast radio sound. ... Album-oriented rock, abbreviated AOR and originally called Album-oriented radio, was originally an American FM radio format focusing on album tracks by rock artists. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... Hey Jude is a song recorded by The Beatles, written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon-McCartney (John Lennon and McCartney). ...

To conform with the preferences of commercial radio, most (though not all) songs released as singles up to that time were about three minutes in length; "Hey Jude" clocked in at over seven minutes and helped make it acceptable for a single to be longer than standard length. Even album covers changed during this period, becoming increasingly artistic -- works of art in their own right. (The Beatles seemed to rebel against this in 1968 when they released their plain white album The Beatles, known as the White Album.) While they were not alone in promoting these developments, they were clearly at the forefront of them. 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... The self-titled double album The Beatles, released by the Beatles in 1968 at the height of their popularity, is often hailed as one of the major accomplishments in popular music. ...

The Beatles' album covers themselves were well-thought-out designs that have been copied and imitated hundreds of times by everyone from The Simpsons and The Muppets to the Red Hot Chilli Peppers. This has especially been the case with the covers of With the Beatles, which featured the four band members' faces half-darkened with shadows; The White Album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Abbey Road. Abbey Road in London has become a popular tourist attraction with countless numbers of tourists taking their photo walking along the crosswalk in front of Abbey Road studios. The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening. ... John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together The Muppets are a group of puppets and costume characters created by Jim Henson and the company he created. ... Red Hot Chili Peppers (from left): Flea, Chad Smith, John Frusciante and Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers are a Californian rock band who have combined aspects of funk and hip-hop with rock and roll, pioneering funk metal. ... With the Beatles was The Beatles second album, recorded four months after the bands first album and released in late 1963. ... The Beatles is a double album, released by The Beatles in 1968. ... Sgt. ... Abbey Road was the last album recorded by The Beatles, although it was released second-to-last, on September 26, 1969 in the UK and October 1, 1969 in the US. It was produced and orchestrated by George Martin for Apple Records. ... Abbey Road street sign from Westminster, London Abbey Road is a throroughfare located in the borough of Camden and the City Of Westminster in London. ... The Houses of Parliament and the clock tower containing Big Ben Part of the London skyline viewed from the South Bank London is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. ... Abbey Road Studios, created in November of 1931 by EMI in London, England, is best known as the legendary recording studio used by the rock bands Cliff Richard and The Shadows and The Beatles. ...

Ironically, one of their most experimental and personal cover designs was one which was released and recalled shortly thereafter -- the infamous Butcher Sleeve, photographed by Robert Whitaker. Originally intended by Whitaker to be one of a triptych of allegorical studies of the group, the photo was selected for the cover of the US version of the album Yesterday & Today; thousands of covers were printed, but the "Butcher Sleeve" version of the album was famously withdrawn from sale just prior to release because of complaints from retailers. It has since become one of the rarest and most valuable of all Beatles collectibles.

Photos and music videos

Their rapid ascent to vast international fame quickly made the four Beatles among the most photographed people in history. As part of the assiduous image management of the band overseen by manager Brian Epstein, the group was assigned a succession of leading photographers -- most notably Dezo Hoffmann and Robert Whitaker -- who helped Epstein to carefully sculpt the group's visual image. Whitaker took many of the best known photographs of the band during their heyday as a touring act between 1964 and 1966, including the famous photographs of their legendary Shea Stadium concert. Brian Epstein: The Beatles manager and a force behind the groups early success. ... William A. Shea Stadium is a baseball stadium in Flushing, New York. ...

One other notable photographer who worked with the band was Richard Avedon, who photographed them for a famous and much reproduced series of psychedelic portraits in 1967, as well as the four portrait shots included as inserts with their 1968 album The Beatles ('The White Album'). Richard Avedon (May 15, 1923 – October 1, 2004) was an American photographer. ... The word psychedelic is a neologism coined from the Greek words for mind, ψυχη (psyche), and manifest, δηλειν (delein). ...

The Beatles began filming promotional music videos for their songs in the early 1960s, mainly because they wanted to send them to television programs so they wouldn't have to appear in person. A music video (also video clip, promo) is a short film or video meant to present a visual representation of a popular music song. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive. ...

Perhaps the single most influential of all the visual representations of The Beatles was their first film A Hard Day's Night, directed by Richard Lester. It pioneered many now-standard techniques including the cutting of images to the beat of the music, and it is arguable that this film became the basic template from which the music video as a genre emerged. Especially notable is the "Can't Buy Me Love" segment, which features creative camera work, and the band running and jumping around in a field -- a device which almost immediately has become de rigeur for virtually every pop band since. (George Harrison of The Beatles and Michael Nesmith of The Monkees went on to become pioneering music video directors). Beatles promo videos include "Day Tripper," "Help!," "We Can Work It Out," "Ticket To Ride," "Paperback Writer," "Rain," "I Feel Fine," "Hello Goodbye," "Penny Lane," "A Day in the Life", "Revolution," "Lady Madonna," "Hey Jude," "The Ballad of John and Yoko," and "Something." The film A Hard Days Night (1964) is a mockumentary written by Alun Owen and starring The Beatles during the height of Beatlemania. ... Richard Lester (born January 19, 1932 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a UK based film director famous for his work with The Beatles. ... George Harold Harrison, MBE (February 25, 1943 – November 29, 2001) was a popular British guitarist, singer, songwriter, record producer, and film producer, best known as a member of The Beatles. ... Michael Nesmith in the Monkees, circa 1967, playing the Gretsch 6123 Monkees signature guitar. ... The Monkees in 1967 (left to right): Michael Nesmith, Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork The Monkees were a four-man musical band created to be the stars of an American television series of the same name, which ran on NBC from 1966 to 1968. ... We Can Work It Out is a song written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon and released by The Beatles as a double A-sided single with Day Tripper. The song is a classic instance of true Lennon-McCartney collaboration, its authors meeting more closely in a single song only... Ticket To Ride is the title of a 1965 song by the 1960s pop/rock band The Beatles. ... Paperback Writer is a song written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon and released by The Beatles on the A side of their eleventh single. ... Rain is the title of a 1966 song done by The Beatles. ... Hello Goodbye is a 1967 song by the legendary 60s rock band The Beatles. ... Penny Lane is a street in the English city of Liverpool. ... A Day in the Life is a song composed by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and recorded for the Beatles album Sgt. ... The Beatles recorded three songs with Revolution in the title. ... Hey Jude is a song recorded by The Beatles, written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon-McCartney (John Lennon and McCartney). ... Something is a song written by George Harrison, originally released on The Beatles last chronological album, Abbey Road by Apple Records. ...

Their most innovative film-clip, which remains one of the landmarks of the genre, was that made in 1967 for the single "Strawberry Fields Forever". Shot in the late winter, in the afternoon and early evening, on Salisbury Plain, it depicted the group at the peak of their psychedelic phase, with long hair, colourful clothes, moustaches and what was soon to become Lennon's trademark, his 'granny glasses'. It used many techniques previously only seen in experimental film, including intricate jump-cuts that rapidly alternated between night and day, reversed film and other avant-garde devices. Strawberry Fields Forever is the title of a 1967 song recorded by The Beatles. ... This article is about the plateau in southern England; Salisbury Plain is also an area on South Georgia Island. ...

Legacy and parody

Even decades after the band broke up, The Beatles have become a yardstick to which nearly all new rock and roll bands are compared. It is extremely common for new bands to be promoted as being "the next Beatles" or "the new fab four". It is also quite common for record reviewers and members of the media to refer to musical acts as being "Beatlesque" given The Beatles impact on Baby Boomer culture. To this day, no new artist or band has quite lived up to the hype of being compared to The Beatles. Inspiring the same degree of popularity as The Beatles may be unattainable now due to the splintering of popular tastes in music. Beatlesque (pronounced ) is a term used to describe rock and pop bands and musicians who make music similar to that of The Beatles, a British rock-pop music band from the 1960s. ...

The influence of The Beatles even extended beyond their music. Perhaps the most notable was their influence on male fashion. Their relatively long hair, when they burst onto the scene in 1964, was a shocking fashion statement, one that was quickly adopted by other rock bands of the time, and by the 1970s, long hair became standard fashion for men. The hair styles even led toy manufactures to begin producing "Beatle Wigs". In the early Beatle-mania years, the Beatles would occasionally wear grey, collarless suits. These unusual suits eventually became extremely common for new bands after 1964. In fact, it was not unusual for bands to appear on the Ed Sullivan Show or another similar program wearing the suits made popular by the band. Hair with a round cross-section will fall straight, as opposed to curly hair, which has a flat cross-section Hair is a filamentous outgrowth of the skin found only in mammals. ... A display of Roman toys, including several that would be familiar to children today: a doll, dice, rattles, and toy dishes for playing house. ... For the Nintendo 64 emulator, see 1964 (Emulator). ... The Ed Sullivan Show was an American television variety show that ran from June 20, 1948, to June 6, 1971, and was hosted by Ed Sullivan. ...

Surprisingly for a band as controversial, prolific and as ubiquitous as The Beatles, there have been very few noteworthy parodies of their work and style.

• The Rutles, an outfit created by Eric Idle (of Monty Python's Flying Circus fame) and Neil Innes, formerly of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and a frequent Python contributor, was a satire of the Beatles' legend.
• The cover of The Residents' first album Meet the Residents (1974) mimicked the cover of Meet the Beatles. Their 1977 single "The Beatles Play the Residents and the Residents Play the Beatles" featured a humourous collage of Beatles record snippets on "Beyond the Valley of a Day in the Life" and the voice of John Lennon saying "please everybody, if we didn't do everything we could have done we tried" with the Residents yelling "WE TRIED, WE TRIED, HA HA HA!!!" on an uncomplimentary cover of "Flying" [1].
• Frank Zappa's 1968 album We're Only In It For The Money parodied the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and the whole hippie culture of the time with its cynical and sarcastic songs.
• One notable parody was recorded by the Beatles themselves. George Harrison's "Only a Northern Song", named after a Lennon-McCartney publishing company, included many of the swirling studio effects identified with the psychedelic-era Beatles and ironic references to excessive dependency on the recording studio:

If you think the harmony

Is a little dark and out of key

You're correct, there's nobody there.

• Some of the same psychedelic excesses were parodied on the 1969 single "Have You Heard the Word" credited to The Fut, but actually recorded by Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees and members of an Australian band called Tin Tin. The parody was so well done that it has appeared on several Beatles bootlegs, and in 1985 Yoko Ono even applied for a copyright on it under John Lennon's name.
• The cover of Gorillaz' second album, Demon Days (2005) is styled similarly to the cover of Let It Be and includes several other Beatles-inspired artwork in the Demon Days booklet.
• Beatallica, a homage/spoof band that hybridizes the music of The Beatles with Metallica, released two EP's of music for free on their website[2], and was threatened with a lawsuit by Sony/ATV Music Publishing for using Beatles songs without permission or license.
• The Powerpuff Girls: The teleplay for Episode 39B, Meet the Beat-Alls, is composed almost entirely of Beatles songs. In this episode, The Powerpuff Girls must fight against Mojo Jojo, Princess Morbucks, Fuzzy Lumpkins, and Him otherwise known as "The Beat - Alls". This "Brutish Invasion" takes over the streets of Townsville until Moko Jono breaks up "The Beat-Alls".
• The Punkles, a German based band, played Beatles songs in the 1976 punk rock style of The Ramones. They made six albums between 1998 and 2003, all containing Beatles songs with album covers mimicking the original Beatles' album covers. [3]

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• Article Analysing the ways that the Spice Girls' success mimicked that of The Beatles