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    while “A Day in the Life” could first be heard on the Sgt. Peppers album. Even though “Strawberry Fields Forever” was released at the end of 1966, the album Magical Mystery Tour debuted in 1967 about six months after Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band was released. As Alan Pollack points out, looking back in retrospect at The Beatles old albums after Sgt. Peppers and Magical Mystery Tour were released, there were definitely songs that broached the theme of exploring existence and the full…

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    “The thing about The Beatles is that they saved the world from boredom,” George Harrison once said. The four rock stars from Liverpool, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, created a heritage for themselves that will never fade away. From hits such as She Loves You to I Want to Hold Your Hand, the four lads made way for a legacy that has shook the rock genre forever. However, creating a legacy is one thing but owning it is a different feat. According to slate.com, “On…

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    “drug” ridden albums, such as Rubber Soul and Revolver, you can see noticeable differences in their songs. The article even mentions noticeable lyrics within the songs, such as “the line “turns me on” into the song “She’s A Woman” (Hertsguard, 195). John mentions that the drugs never wrote the songs for the Beatles, but indirectly drugs did impact the way the Beatles wrote their songs. The drugs allowed them to obtain a different consciousness, as George mentioned, thus allowing them to create…

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    John Lennon was most known for his work in the band the Beatles. They were a rock band that formed in Liverpool in the 1960s. There were four members of this band John Lennon ,Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. They quickly became famous for their good looks and great music, they were a boy band to start. Their albums a hard day’s night, please please me, are still popular albums today. John and the Beatles made many amazing albums ,but once they got older a huge change…

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    In this essay, the band that I chose is “The Beatles” and much of the attention will be focused on talking about its historical sketch, career highlights and the specific reason on why it is meaningful for me. The Beatles, or we say the British rock band, made up of four members of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Stahl. In 1960, the band was established in Liverpool, England, its music style from the 1950s rock and roll, and pioneered the psychedelic rock, pop rock and…

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    1946 in Toronto Canada. From a young age, Neil was attracted to music and began to appreciate music more and more. Young promptly learned how to play folk songs on a plastic ukulele that his father gave him and then years later he accomplished to play acoustic guitar. His passion in music was so immense “that he formed his first band while being in junior high school” (Neil Young Biography). As the years past, Young continued in developing his musical talents. Young was so focused on music that…

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    actually a strange confliction between the two leaders of the Beatles, John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Both John and Paul had very different styles of playing music and even writing music. As one author puts this…

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    John Lennon was the founder of one of the most influential and popular music groups of all time. The Beatles were very popular and had many good years before later breaking up. John Lennon went on to record songs solo, including “Imagine” written and released in 1971. His song was written when the Vietnam War was taking place and the lyrics talk about a time and/or place where everything that divides us is gone and there is peace. I chose this song because I like the message it sends, “Imagine…

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    The Beatles started out as a vocal group called the Quarrymen. John Lennon formed this group when he was in high school. Each member of the Beatles joined this vocal group besides Ringo Starr. They soon became known as the Beatles in 1960. They were discovered by Brian Epstein in 1961. Brian Epstein became a their official manager. He secured a contract with EMI records. Two members of the Beatles left. The two people who left are Pete Best and Stuart Sutcliffe who was replaced by Ringo…

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    SOME LOVE WE CAN NEVER HAVE We live in a world where there had been an old debate of whether love listens to mind or heart. It depends on the person, the motive, the truth in the love. But still sometimes we wonder our minds around every possibility how we can win in love and every time we fall for some angel and act dumb. We are one among the sea of people in this world waiting for their love story to be drafted, edited and get applied in life. Then we spot someone in the crowd and our mind…

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