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| Paul- The Musician Paul was born in Liverpool, England. He lived in a working-class family. His father, James 'Jim' McCartney was in a Jazz band , and is mother Mary was a nurse. Mary died when Paul was 14 of breast cancer. With the influence on his fathers band, Paul took up guitar (1956). Some time after, Paul met guitar player, John Lennon, and joined his band, the Quarrymen. They played togther for a few years, while changing their name, when finally in '59 they adaped the name, the Beatles. In the Beatles, Paul played bass guitar, sang and was the songwriter, along with John. Together, Lennon-McCartney wrote many timeless hits for Love Me Do to Let it Be. Sence the Beatles breakup in '70, Paul had a good music carrier. He came out with his first solo album, McCartney, April 17, 1970. In 1996 Paul was knighted for his contribution to music. aside from music... From the early years to the mid. years of the Beatles, Paul dated actress Jane Asher. In around 67/68 they split up. They never married. Later he met photographer Linda Eastman. They married in '69. Linda recently passed away (april 17th, 1998). Soon after Paul started dating former model, Heather Mills. Name- James Paul McCartney Born- June 18, 1942 Height- about 5'11 weight- 140-something favourite colour- blue "The Cute Beatle" |
| John- John was also born into a working-class Liverpool family. His mother, Julia, and his father, Freddy, had a rough relationship. Freddy deserted julia when John was three. Julia started dating, and when John had the chance and option, he chose to live with his Aunt Mimi. John was very interested in art. He struggled in math and science, but was very good in English. He went on to art school. At Liverpool Art College, John became interested in music and formed the band, the Quarrymen- later the Beatles. He got Paul and George Harrison to join the band. John played rhythem guitar, sang and wrote songs (with Paul). They wrote many great songs together like I want to hold your hand, Yellow Submarine, Drive My Car and more. John married his school classmate Cynthia 'cyn' Powell. They had a son, Julian, in '63. While married to Cyn, John openly dated artist Yoko Ono. In '68 cyn divorced John. John then married Yoko. They had a son, Sean (oct. 9 1975), after a miscarrage. John and Yoko made solo albums together after the Beatles breakup. On December 8th, 1980, John was brutally shot and killed outside his and Yoko's NYC apartment. He was only 40 when he died. Name- John Winston Ono Lennon Born- October 9, 1940 Height- 5'11 Weight- 140-something favourite colour- green "The Smart Beatle" |
| George- George was born into a working-class family in Liverpool. He started learning guitar as a teenager, and in '58 joined the Quarrymen with older schoolmate, Paul. George started getting interested in Indian music. He took up the ancient Indian instrument, the sitar. In '66 he to the Beatles to India to meditate. He took sitar lessons from Ravi Shankar. He played some songs with the sitar. George played lead guitar in the Beatles, but he also wrote and sang some songs. He also played the sitar on some songs. George had a steady relationship with British model, Patti Boyd. They married, but George lost Patti to singer Eric Clampton (>p) . Clampton and Harrison remained friends. George sometime later met and married Olivia Arias. He had a good solo carrier after the Beatles with albums All Things Must Pass to his last album, Brainwashed. In '99, George was shot but survived with help from wife, Olivia. But, on November 29, 2001, George lost his battle with cancer. He was only 58 when he died. Name- George Harrison Born- February 25, 1943 Height- 5'10 or 5'11 Weight- around 140 favourite colour- purple "The Quiet Beatle" |
| Ringo- Ringo was also born in a working class family in Liverpool. Like John, Ringo's father deserted his mother when Ringo was only three. Ringo was very sick as a child, so he had to drop out of school. He took up drum lessons and took up different jobs. In '57 he joined Rory Storm and the Hurricanes as the drummer. In around '62 the Beatles manager replaced the Beatles old drummer, Pete Best, with Ringo. Ringo doesn't have a wide vocal range so he didn't sing much. When he did, he sang songs written specially written for him, such as With A Little Help From My Friends and Yellow Submarine. But he dis write somes songs like Don't Pass Me By. Ringo married Maureen Cox. At some time they split up and he married Barbara Bach. Ringo also had a pretty good solo carrier, and just came out with a new CD, Choose Love. Name- Richard Starkey Born- July 7, 1940 Height-5'8 Weight-130-something favourite colour- red "The Sad Beatle" |
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| Stuart Sutcliffe- He was born in Edinburgh, Lothian, and brought up in Huyton, Merseyside. He attended Prescot Grammar School, and was himself a schoolteacher's son.
While Sutcliffe was a gifted painter who showed great promise, and had personal charisma and looks comparable with James Dean's, his musical skills were not remarkable. Sutcliffe became a Beatle mostly because of his friendship with Lennon, whom he met while studying at the Liverpool College of Art. Lennon convinced him to buy a bass guitar (choosing a H�fner President) with the money he had made from the sale of one of his paintings. He was very uncomfortable on stage and usually played with his back to the audience. His musical style was elementary, mostly sticking to root notes of chords. (An example of Sutcliffe's bass playing with the early Beatles is the track "Cayenne", on the Anthology 1 album.) Regarding Sutcliffe's musical talent, it should be noted that Bill Harry, founder and editor of the Mersey Beat newspaper, contended in a recent interview that Sutcliffe was a competent, if not brilliant, bassist, and that accounts of his musical ineptitude were exaggerated. Original Beatles drummer Pete Best has expressed similar views. [1] Nevertheless, Sutcliffe's importance to the group came from his artistic rather than musical talent. His sense of style, influenced by his lover Astrid Kirchherr, contributed to The Beatles' early "look." He also had a profound influence on his close friend Lennon, reinforcing the rebellious Lennon's aspiration to art and the bohemian lifestyle, which were on display during the Beatles' psychedelic period (1966-1968). Death He left The Beatles to pursue his career as an artist before they achieved their success, and to marry Kirchherr. Paul McCartney, previously second lead guitarist in the group, replaced Sutcliffe on bass. Months afterwards, in the spring of 1962, Sutcliffe died from a cerebral hemorrhage; after collapsing in the middle of an art class, he was taken to a hospital, but died in the ambulance. It has been claimed that his death was the result of a beating sustained in Liverpool while still a member of the group, but it is more likely to have been a hereditary condition. Lennon later said that he was profoundly affected by his friend's death. Sutcliffe's sister, Pauline, has always claimed that Lennon was the cause of her brother's death, asserting that the two had fought in Hamburg a short while earlier. According to her account, Lennon had repeatedly kicked Sutcliffe in the head, and Sutcliffe never recovered from the injuries. (Her claims are echoed in Albert Goldman's book The Lives of John Lennon.) However, this appears to be unsupported. Kirchherr denies that any such incident occurred, no action was ever taken against Lennon, and when he asked Sutcliffe's mother for the scarf which Sutcliffe had worn at art school, it was given to him as a memento. The Beatles paid homage to Sutcliffe by including his portrait among those on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967. He appears at the extreme left, next to fellow-artist Aubrey Beardsley. |
| Pete Best- Randolph Peter Best (born November 24, 1941 in Madras, India) was the original drummer for The Beatles. The son of Mona Best, the owner of Liverpool's Casbah Club, where The Beatles played occasionally, Best was first invited to join the band in 1959, later rejoining for their 1960�1961 residency in Hamburg. He stayed until shortly after their first audition for EMI in 1962, but was fired on August 16 of that year, to be replaced by Ringo Starr, then of Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. Best was told of the dismissal by The Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein. The reason given was that George Martin, who was to become The Beatles' producer, had been dissatisfied with Best's drumming and intended to replace him on their recordings. (Indeed, Martin did use a studio drummer, Andy White, on their first single session for "Love Me Do", even though Starr had been auditioned beforehand.) The decision appears to have been a 'last straw' with the group, who felt Best had never completely fit in as a member. While Lennon, McCartney and Harrison usually spent their offstage time together, practicing their music or socialising, Best mostly went off alone. He therefore wasn't privy to many of the group's experiences, references, in-jokes and developing sense of style; when the band adopted the mop-top-style Beatle haircut, Best didn't follow suit. Starr, on the other hand, had an appealing, unique playing style (which impressed Harrison, in particular), and he was already quite popular in the Mersey scene and readily joined in all The Beatles' activities. It has been speculated that another reason for dismissing Best (and hiring Ringo) was to draw fans from one of their primary local rivals (The Hurricanes). Aside from that, there has also always been the assumption that the other Beatles were jealous of Best's appeal with the female fans, since he was more conventionally handsome than the other members, a problem that certainly wouldn't exist with Ringo in his place. It has also been reported that Epstein first offered the job not to Starr, but to Johnny Hutchinson of The Big Three, who turned it down. Ringo's old band is said to have invited Best to make the switch reciprocal by becoming The Hurricanes' drummer, but he refused. Oddly, Ringo had always worn a beard during the period that The Beatles had known him, and didn't shave it off until after he had joined the band. When word of Best's replacement broke in Liverpool (through outlets like Mersey Beat), many Beatles fans were upset, and one gave George Harrison a black eye. Quite a few female fans considered Best to be the band's best-looking member � at many early shows, Best had had his own group of female fans present in the audience. In an appearance on the American game show I've Got a Secret, roughly two years later, Best seemed to deny that he was dismissed. Asked why 'he left the band', the still-ducktailed Best replied that he '...didn't think they would go as far as they did.' In later years, Best himself has admitted to being a Beatles fan and owning their records. After his split from The Beatles, Best joined Lee Curtis & The All Stars, which then broke off from Curtis and became Pete Best & The All Stars. They signed to Decca Records - who had previously rejected The Beatles, and signed The Tremeloes instead - and released the single "I'm Gonna Knock On Your Door", which failed to gain an audience. Best then relocated to the U.S. - along with two songwriting musicians from The Remo Four, Wayne Bickerton and Tony Waddington - as The Pete Best Four, and did some recording for small labels. Personnel changes in early 1965 increased the group's size to five, with the new name The Pete Best Combo. They toured the U.S. with their combination of 1950s songs and originals but had little success, hurt by having no hit records in England or major label promotion in the U.S. Finally, they released an album on Cameo Records titled Best Of The Beatles (a dubious play on Peter's name, leading to disappointment for record buyers who expected a Beatles compilation), but disbanded not long after. (Bickerton and Waddington were to find much greater success as songwriters in the 1970s for a series of hits by The Rubettes.) Best apparently tried to commit suicide in 1965 by locking himself in a room and inhaling fumes from a gas fire. Best filed a libel suit against The Beatles in October of that year, because Starr implied in an interview with Playboy magazine that Best had been fired because he was a drug user. The suit was settled out of court for an undisclosed sum. Best decided to leave show business, and in Hunter Davies' 1968 authorised Beatles biography, he was portrayed as both somewhat bitter but also unwilling to further talk about or otherwise cash in on his Beatles association. After a series of jobs outside music, including work as a baker and a civil servant, Best began giving interviews to the media, writing about his time with The Beatles, and serving as a technical advisor for the television movie Birth of the Beatles in the late 1970s. Thus, Best eventually found a modicum of independent fame, and toured as leader of The Pete Best Band. In this public role, Best is uniquely positioned to gratify the many fans who are fascinated with The Beatles' early days. When the surviving Beatles released their Anthology in 1995, which featured a number of tracks with Best as drummer, Best received a substantial windfall � apparently between �1 million and �4 million � from the sales.[citation needed] He also appeared later in a television special, also titled Best Of The Beatles, telling his life story. |