Ringo Starr

Country with the Beatles, was an hour-long television film that aired as a special on BBC1 at 8:35 p.m. on December 26, 1967. The psychedelic production followed a group of people on a British mystery tour and loosely focused on Mr. Richard Starkey (Ringo Starr)…

John Lennon should be called “John Legend” John Lennon is known as the creator of the Beatles, a rock God, and an inspiration to millions. He was able to shake the music industry with new music that would never be forgotten and a kind heart that was giving and passionate for world peace. John Lennon was an intelligent, hard-working man that greatly impacted society by encouraging anti-war protests and supporting the peace movement, as well as developing the world of rock n’ roll while catching…

Popular music, "music written and marketed with the intention of achieving mass distribution and sales now principally in the form of recordings" (Merriam-Webster.com), played a significant role in the daily life of people of the 20th and 21st centuries. From psychedelic to rock, modern music encompassed it all. As time progressed, the quality and genre adapted to the people 's interests. Some artists decided to go against the grain and change popular music for the better. These five artists-…

Among other events, there were two important events that took place during the 1960s. One of them was the Space Race. The Space Race was a fight between the United States and the USSR to see who could put satellites into space first. Another event that occurred was the progression of 1960s of music. With music progressing, many groups from Great Britain came to the United States. This became known as the British Invasion and the groups that came had a great influence on the people of United…

“The psychic shiver the Sgt Peppers sent through the world was nothing less than a cinematic dissolve from one zeitgeist to another”. MacDonald, I. (1994) Revolution in the head Fourth estate P220. The Beatles appeal to all generations young and old. They are unique in so many ways and had the amazing ability to listen to what was happening around them in popular music and respond to it. By creating the alter ego that is Sgt pepper’s lonely hearts club band, the Beatles, never became…

with a spotlight overhead and the title of “the voice of a generation” plastered across his forehead, made Cobain deeply uncomfortable. In a 1993 MTV News interview, he once said “I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but the anonymity of Ringo Starr” (Fricke). The weight of his increasing drug use, the pressure of wanting to be the person that his daughter Francis Bean needed as a father, and the increasingly jaded spotlight that had lost its short lived appeal, were all beginning to…