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BY RIKKE ÅRVOLL |
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The Beatles
I have wrote
about The Beatles to know their story, their background,
how they grew up, how they met eachother and how the whole story
about the four boys from Liverpool began.
It has been
very interesting, and I think I have concidered the mainly
points in their career and lifes.
Sources:
The Beatles (Hunter Davies)
A video about The Beatles.
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John Winston Lennon
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the bombs were falling above Liverpool 9 October 1940, a little child came
to this world and he was christened immediately as John Winston Lennon. It
was his aunt Mimi that chosed "John", and his mothers moment of
love to the native country resulted in "Winston".
The 3th of December Johns parents Julia Stanley and Fred Lennon got
married at the bailiff.
Julia worked as a seatbokker in a cinema; Trocadero in Liverpool. Fred was
a sailor.
After the wedding, Fred continued to sail in West-Indian and Julia kept
her job at Trocadero, and until Fred succeded getting them an apartment,
Julia stayed at her parents house.
But then the war started and John was born.
 When
John was aproxomently 18 months the shipping company where Fred was an
employer suddenly stoped the payment of Freds job to Julia.
No one knew what really happend, they didn`t hear anything from Fred for a
long time, but it ended with
Fred back.
But in the main time Julia had met a new man she wanted to marry. A year
later Julia and Fred got divorced.
And Johns aunt Mimi took care of John. She and her husband George took
care of him like he was their own son, and they never really talked to him
about his parents relationship. Mimi wanted to protect him from
problems like that - she just wanted him to be happy. And John was
very grateful to Mimi for taking care of him.
John started 1th grade at Doverdale, he had a keen mind, and, according to
his teacher, he could if he just wanted to.
As a 17 years old he began to draw his own small comic strips.
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was in the end of the 1950`s John started his interess for popmusic and
this was also the time when the shifflegroup-time began, and soon it was
more than 100 shifflegroups - only in Liverpool, and one of them was
called the Quarrymen. -It seemed natural, since some boys at Quarrybank
etablished it. Those boys were: Eric Griffits - guitar, Pete Shotton -
washboard, Len Garry and Colin Hanson
- drums and Rod - banjo. John played the sologuitar.
But his mothers death also brougth him and Paul even more closer, now they
had one more experience in common.
John showed his grief in a strange and in many ways a macabre way. He
could for example jell to old people he met on the street, or he could say
really bad things to functioninhibited people.
He did also draw his grief in some grotesque motives/pictures. |
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James Paul McCartney
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James
Paul McCartney was borned 18 June 1942 in Liverpool, in a private ward at
Walton Hospital in Liverpool.
 His
mother was Mary Patricia Mohin and his father was Jim McCartney. They were
both of irish origin.
Pauls family were poor and they belonged tothe workingclass.
Paul
and the Qarrymen
Paul,
in contary to John, didn`t have any enjoy
of music. Both him and his brother Michael had to take piano - lessons as
children, but the profit was like zero. Paul also had to try-sing for the
church-choir and the result was the same.
But when Paul got an old drum he started to practice and teach himself
different melodies.He got his musicaltalent from his father. Jim McCartney was the only
"Beatle-parent" that had any experience as a mucician.
In a age of 14, Paul suddenly wanted a guitar. Paul started to get
interesed in popmusic when he was about 12 - like his friends.
 The
first popconcert he did experience was when Eric Delaney played on the
Empitheatre in Liverpool.
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George Harrison
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 George
Harrison is the only "Beatle" which came from a big family and
the only one with a normal and undramatical background.
He was the youngest of the four "Beatle" and he was also the
youngest of Loise and HHarold Harrisons four children.
George was born 24. February 1943 in Arnold grove 12, Wavertree,
Liverpool. Died of cancer nov.2001.
His mother Loise, was buxom, kind and extrovert woman. His father, Harold,
was a thin considerable man and he was comfortable with everything he did.
Georges parents had some problems about gettting him into school, because
all schools were crowded. And they didn`t succeded to get him into a
school before he was six.
George
and the Quarrymen
When
George was about 14, he suddenly started to jot down guitars everywhere.
George came to his motherr one day and asked for help - a classmate was
selling a guitar for £3, (It costed £5 as new), and George really wanted
this guitar. And of course Louise would help him.
So
now they were three people that tougtht in the same way; John, Paul and
George was the permanent core in the Quarrymen. Other members came and
diseappered.
In the autum 1960 the Quarrymen went to Hamburg, were they f.i. played at
Kaiserkeller. The Quarrymen was now made of John, Paul, George, Pete
(Best) and Stu (Stuart Sycliffe).
After about 5 months in Hamburg they lost their work-permit, and they were
forced to leave Germany and go home - bankrupty and broked down.
27. December 1960 was the final turning point for the Quarrymen, which now
had changed name to "The Beatles".
The posters announced: "The Beatles - directley from Hamburg"
when they played in Litherland Town Hall.
With hugh steps The Beatles catched up with Rory Storm and the Hurricans,
which was Liverpools best band.
From January 1961, The Beatles played permanent at Cavern - a club in
Liverpool, which now is famous because of The Beatles. They played at
Cavern 292 times, the first time they earned £5, and the last time they
earned £300.
In April 1961 they went on their second tour to Hamburg. Now they were
playing at Top Ten and changed their hair and the way they dressed. Stu
was the first one with a shaggy fringe, the rest of the Beatle-boys
laughed of him for two days, but then George, Paul, Pete and finally John
followed.
When The Beatles left Hamburg, Stu quit to become a painter. In 1962 he
died of cerebralhaemorrhage. And The Beatles got a new manager; Brian
Epstein. Pete Best got fired and Ringo Starr turned up. |
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Ringo Star
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 Ringo was borned Richard Starkey and his nickname was Ritchie. He was born
7. July 1940, and is the oldest one in The Beatles.
He grew up in a slum-influenced district. His parents Elsie Gleave and
Richard Starkey met eachother when they worked in a bakerystore, and they
got married in 1936.
They bought themselves a small house in Madryn Street.
Ringo was Elsies and Richareds only child, and traditionally he got his
fathers name.
Ringos parents got divorced when he was only three years old.
Ringo started at school early, but after the first year he got
appendicitris which ended in the stomach/belly membrane. Ringo became very
ill and spent a whole year at the hospital.
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Ringo
and The Beatles
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Ringo
didn`t care about music at all and he hadn`t touched any instrument before
the big "shifflewawe" came through England. He became a drummer.
His stephfather, Harry, bought him his first drumset. It was a seconhanded
drumset and costed £10.
The first new drumset Ringo bought costed about £100, and he went to his
grandfather to borrow the necessary money.
He paid punctual back, £1 every week. Slowly Ringo walked the same
inticate way as the other Beatle-boys, until he one day became a member of
Rory Storms band.
 Ringo
had seen more of the bright
sides of the "poplife" than John, Paul and George, before he
became a member of The Beatles.
It was John that called Ringo, and offered him job in The Beatles - thats
how they came intouch.
10.
April 1970 the worldpress wrote on every firstside in every magazine, news
papers and so on that The Beatles were dissolving,
John
also broke up with Cynthia, and he met later Yoko Ono, who he was married
to until he died in 1981. He was killed right in front of his wife,
outside his house in New York.
He was shot of a "autograph-hunter".
Mark Chapmam asked for his autograph, and when he got it in his hand, he
pulled a gun from his pocket and pulled the trigger.
 
John and Yoko and
Paul and Linda
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