How Did The Beatles Influence People In The 1960s

John Lennon had said in the 1960s, “It matters not who you love, where you love or how you love, it matters only that you love.” This quote explains the challenges, the failures, and struggles, one of the major bands, the Beatles have encountered during the 1960s. When two of the Beatles were younger, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, they would sometimes leave school to practice together. McCartney's younger schoolmate George Harrison was soon recruited as another guitarist, as was Lennon's art college friend Stu Sutcliffe, to play bass. The group broke through the Liverpool club scene and eventually made its way to Hamburg. They started traveling their way down the road of success and became famous. The Beatles were influential because of how they started their band, their music that struck the hearts of people listening to them, and what made them popular in the first place. …show more content…
The Beatles built their reputation playing clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg over a three-year period from 1960, with Stuart Sutcliffe initially serving as bass player. (Consequenceofsound.com) George Martin guided and developed their recordings, greatly expanding their popularity in the United Kingdom after their first hit, "Love Me Do", in late 1962. They acquired the nickname "the Fab Four" as Beatlemania grew in Britain the next year. (Consequenceofsound.com) They four members of the band traveled together everywhere, just trying to get some fame. Paul is not McCartney's first name, James is (Telegraph.co.uk). Also Ringo’s real name is Richard Starkey (Mentalfloss.com). They both decided to change it in order to be more appealing to the public. Overall, The Beatles major success helped them raise the bar for other by bands, yet their music also helped their