The Beatles Informative Speech

The Beatles: a band so popular that it was compared with Jesus Christ himself. This band like many others had a shaky start, and for many lived for too little. But during its prime the Beatles created some of the world’s favorite music, and influenced an entire generation of it. Firstly the purpose of this essay is to explain the ways that “The Beatles” and its members shaped music around the world. While doing this this essay is going to tell the story of the Beatles. This will include how they came to be, and why they were torn apart. Included in this will be the different stages of the Beatles: boy band, psychedelic. Along with what influenced the band itself. To begin this essay is going to start with the beginnings of the Beatles. This would be in Liverpool England. Here Paul McCartney and John Lennon met at a “Quarrymen” performance (Womack). The “Quarrymen” were a skiffle group meaning that they were the poor man’s music and used everyday items in their music. From this it was hard to attract skilled musicians, but only being 15 at the time Paul accepted the offer (Yannicos). This brings the first two …show more content…
This subsites in the song Eleanor Rigby which is a grim song about alienation and is told through the life story of a lonely women who eventually dies. The influential significance of this song was it was the first of the Beatles that didn’t have a happy ending. This shocked many of the Beatles fans who were us to happy love songs made by the Beatles. Even with this Eleanor Rigby still topped the British charts. This song also shows how deep some of the Beatles songs came to be, seeing how it is expressing distaste for alienation and segregation. An interesting fact about this song is that none of the Beatles actually play instruments in it but they instead have the song driven by strings instruments that include the cello, viola, and the violin