According to the decision of UNESCO the 16-th of January is considered to be the International Day of “The Beatles” According to the decision of UNESCO the 16-th of January is announced the International Day of the “Beatles” from the year 2001

This famous group is known all over the world. They are known as the “Fab Four”, the four boys from Liverpool.

What popular British pop and rock stars do you know? The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Queen, U2, Sting, Elton John, Phil Collins and others

“The Beatles” raised in a very musical country. The words pop, rock, punk and acid rock are well- known to everybody and they are all of English origin

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in They became the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed act in the history of popular music.

The guitarist John Lennon, Oct. 9, 1940 The guitarist Paul McCartney, June 18, 1942 The guitarist George Harrison, Feb. 25, 1943 The drummer Ringo Starr, Richard Starkey, July 7, 1940 They were all born and raised in LiverpoolLiverpool

The Beatles showed professionalism and made impressive figures on the stage.

Lennon and McCartney had played together in a group called The Quarrymen. With Harrison, they formed their own group, The Silver Beatles, in 1959, and Starr joined them in 1962.

The English ROCK MUSIC of the Beatles gave the 1960s it’s characteristic musical flavor and had a profound influence on the course of popular music They looked nicer than anyone else. Their manager Brian Epstein gave them the new “clean” image with short hair, white shirts and elegant suits. Their songs and unusual sense of humor drew the peoples’ attention.

As The Beatles, they developed a local following in Liverpool clubs, and their first recordings, "Love Me Do" (1962) and "Please Please Me" (1963), quickly made them Britain's top rock group. Their early music was influenced by the American rock singers Chuck BERRY and Elvis PRESLEY, but they infused a hackneyed musical form with freshness, vitality, and wit.

The release of "I Want to Hold Your Hand" in 1964 marked the beginning of the phenomenon known as "Beatlemania" in the United States. The Beatles' first U.S. tour aroused a universal mob adulation. Their concerts were scenes of mass worship, and their records sold in the millions. Their first film, the innovative A Hard Day's Night (1964), was received enthusiastically by a wide audience that included many who had never before listened to rock music.

Many more people began listening to pop music. Girls loved The Beatles and the young men tried to look like them. Newspapers, televisions focused on the group and made it famous. A hysteria that was called “Beatlomania” swept Britain and soon afterwards, America.

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