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- 21: The Art of Rock and Roll by Charles Brown
- ... well. Sixty-seven percent of the singles that came out of mowtown music hit the top of the charts. Chapter nine talks about one of the greatest influences on Rock and Roll which were the Beatles. Their musical style is defined in three periods which are early beatle, 1962-1964, middle beatles,1965-1966, and late beatles 1967- 1969. The early beatles had the following characteristics: Simple lyrics, Simple background accompaniment, Rock sound from the 1950's, Simple drumbeat and rhythmic patters, Simple bass lines, and domination by lead singer or ...
- 22: Great Rock Musicians: Their Achievements and Effect on Rock and Roll
- ... A short time later, McCartney introduced Lennon to his friend, George Harrison, who was only 13 at the time. The band had a number of names besides The Quarrymen before they finally decided on the Beatles, intentionally misspelled so it would have the word "beat" in it. Like Bob Dylan They gained the attention of a record company by putting on an excellent show in a club. However, unlike Dylan, the ... make a demo recording to send to several record companies. After being rejected by two other labels, George Martin at Colombia like what he heard and signed the band. His only condition was for the Beatles to loose Pete Best, their drummer. They did, and hired Ringo Starr, who had sat in for Best several times, as the full time drummer. In 1962 they released their first single, "Love Me Do ... The British Invasion was a movement of British music and musicians across the Atlantic to America. Bands such as Led Zepplin, Black Sabbath, The Rolling Stones and The Zombies, Ccme through the hole that the Beatles had made. Another phenomenon the song sparked was "BeatleMania". "BeatleMania" saw it's beginnings when the Beatles made an appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. When the Beatles toured the U.S. for the ...
- 23: Allegory Of American Pie By Do
- ... the epic’s hero, Buddy Holly. Holly was a 50s rock and roller who experimented greatly with chords and beats. Many people say that if Holly hadn’t died, no one would have needed the Beatles, who in their time also revolutionized rock. But in any sense Holly was a rock pioneer. He wrote his own songs and popularized the use of the two guitar, bass and drums line-up (Jordan). Holly directly influenced most of the most prominent folk and rock musicians of the 60s including Bob Dylan, the Beatles and many others. The Beatles name actually originated from Holly’s band, the Crickets (Jordan). In February of 1959 tragedy struck. Holly was on tour with a collection of performers, and he wanted to fly to the next stop ...
- 24: John Lennon: Biography
- John Lennon: Biography I, John Winston Lennon, was born in Liverpool, England in 1940. I was the founding member of a group called the Beatles, which was the most popular music group in the history of rock and roll (World Book 197). The group included George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and myself. We originally formed in 1958, but it wasn't until 1960 that we decided to name ourselves the Beatles (World Book 191). My philosophy of the Beatles was, "when you said it, it was crawly things; when you read it, it was beat music (The New Book of Knowledge 108). I, along with Paul, wrote most of the Beatles' music. Songs ...
- 25: Charles Manson
- ... Manson was sent to the US penitentiary. By 1959 Charles had been committed of rape, drug use, pimping, stealing, and fraud. Manson was emotionally insecure and was lacking attention. Manson had obsessions with music; the Beatles and his guitar. He hoped that in his future he would be employed in the music business. (UMKC) On March 21,1967, Charles was released from prison for the second time. The 32 year old ... that in many ways he was following the bible. Charles was "god" and his "family" was his followers. His family believed that the "four angels" referred to in the Revelations, was the popular band, the Beatles. Manson viewed the Beatles as prophets who were placed on Earth to warn of an upcoming revolution. Manson believed that the Beatles were talking to him through their music. (Missouri) Charlie came up with a philosophy; something he ...
- 26: Charles Manson
- ... to trial for the thirty five. THE MOTIVE BEHIND THE MAN The driving force behind Manson's killing was hard to prove and hard to believe. Manson had a plan in his head. When the Beatles first released "The White Album," it was a hit. Manson listened to it often. He had a great devotion to the Beatles, who he believed spoke to him across the oceans in their lyrics and songs. Manson saw the 4 Beatles as the 4 Angels that announced the ending of the world in the bible. (Armageddon) On "The White Album" there are two song titles containing the word revolution. These are "Revolution 1" and "Revolution ...
- 27: Charles Manson- Methods To The
- ... and The Process that even if he was never a member, The Process must have been a great influence on Charles Manson (638-639). A great many other ideas of Manson’s came from the Beatles and the Bible. This may seem like an odd pair, but they fit together surprisingly well in Manson’s mind. Manson had his own unique interpretations of almost every verse from Revelations 9. He believed that the Beatles were the four angels spoken of in the Bible. When the Bible describes locusts emerging from the bottomless pit, he saw it as another reference to the English rockers because locust and “beetles” were one ... and the blacks. He believed that the blacks would win but would be unable to govern and then be forced to turn to the Manson Family for leadership (Bugliosi 329-331). Manson believed that the Beatles song of the same name was a prediction of this race war (“Charles Manson”). He would often quote whole Beatles’ songs and Revelations 9 to support his views (Bugliosi 300). Manson believed that the ...
- 28: Charles Manson
- ... to trial for the thirty five. THE MOTIVE BEHIND THE MAN The driving force behind Manson's killing was hard to prove and hard to believe. Manson had a plan in his head. When the Beatles first released "The White Album," it was a hit. Manson listened to it often. He had a great devotion to the Beatles, who he believed spoke to him across the oceans in their lyrics and songs. Manson saw the 4 Beatles as the 4 Angels that announced the ending of the world in the bible. (Armageddon) On "The White Album" there are two song titles containing the word revolution. These are "Revolution 1" and "Revolution ...
- 29: The Outsiders 2
- ... everything...". He is a bit naive sometimes, like in page 45 when he tried to convince himself that the only difference between socs and greasers is that greasers like Elvis and do not like the Beatles and socs like the Beatles and do not like Elvis. Sometimes, Ponyboy is daydreaming and not connected to reality, like in page 158, when he tried to convince himself that Johnny isn't dead: "...That still body back in the ... different time it was written in the 1950s. A good example for it was that Ponyboy thought the big difference between socs and greasers was that the greasers loved Elvis and the socs loved the Beatles. Since I was not born at Elvis' and the Beatles' time and I do not like either of them I cannot relate to it. The were two other reasons for why it was hard ...
- 30: John Lennon
- ... Minister Churchill. Knowing firsthand the horror of a world at war and living through the era of Vietnam's senseless carnage as well, Lennon came to embrace and embody pacifism via such classics of the Beatles era as "All You Need Is Love" and "Strawberry Fields Forever." Yet he also had a countervailing dark side that found expression in pained outcries that dated as far back as "Help." This unvarnished aspect ... His most fully realized statement, as a solo artist was 1970's John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band. Lennon's first solo album, it followed several avant-garde sound collages recorded toward the end of the Beatles era with his wife and collaborator, Yoko Ono. The raw, confessional nature of Plastic Ono Band reflected the primal-scream therapy that Lennon and Ono had been undergoing with psychologist Arthur Janov. There were, in fact, numerous facets to Lennon's character captured in the ongoing diary of his life in song. Many of his post-Beatles compositions - "Imagine," "Mind Games," "Instant Karma," and "Give Peace a Chance" – have rightfully become anthems, flaunting tough-minded realism, cosmic epiphany, hard-won idealism and visionary utopianism in equal measure. For all of the ...
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