"I declare that the Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen." -Timothy Leary

I've been listening to the music of Beatles my entire life and they are definitely my favorite band! So, I had to dedicate a section of my web page to the one and only Fab Four! Besides, how could you not love them? They're cute, have great music, and hilarious movies! Here's a bit about John, Paul, George, and Ringo's band: The Beatles.

The English rock music group The Beatles gave the 1960s its characteristic musical flavor and had a profound influence on the course of popular music, equaled by few performers. The guitarists John Winston Lennon, b. Oct. 9, 1940, d. Dec. 8, 1980; and George Harrison, b. Feb. 25, 1943; bass player Paul James McCartney, b. June 18, 1942; and the drummer Ringo Starr, b. Richard Starkey, July 7, 1940, were all born and raised in Liverpool. 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. 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's first U.S. tour aroused universal mob adulation. Their concerts were scenes of mass worship, and their records sold in the millions. Their films, the innovative A Hard Day's Night (1964) and Help (1965), were received enthusiastically by a wide audience. Composing their own material (Lennon and McCartney were the major creative forces), The Beatles established the precedent for other rock groups to play their own music. Experimenting with new musical forms, they produced an extraordinary variety of songs: the childishly simple "Yellow Submarine"; the bitter social commentary of "Eleanor Rigby"; parodies of earlier pop styles; new electronic sounds; and compositions that were scored for cellos, violins, trumpets, and sitars, as well as for conventional guitars and drums. Some enthusiasts cite the albums Rubber Soul (1965) and Revolver (1966) as the apex of Beatle art, although Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), perhaps the first rock album designed thematically as a single musical entity, is more generally considered their triumph. The group disbanded in 1970, after the release of their final album, Let It Be, to pursue individual careers. On Dec. 8, 1980, John Lennon was fatally shot in New York City. In 1991, Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio was performed in Britain and the United States. Older live recordings of the band continue to be released on record.

Great Quotes from The Beatles

"Love is the answer and you know that for sure". -John Lennon

"Am I crazy or am I a genius? I don't think I'm either." -John Lennon

"Life is what happens to you when you are busy making other plans" -John Lennon

"If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or my music, then in that respect you can call me that...I believe in what I do, and I'll say it." -John Lennon

"Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war-for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more." -John Lennon

"Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you rattle your jewelry." -John Lennon (Royal Variety Performance, 1963)

"When I was about twelve, I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed....If there is such a thing as a genius... I am one, and if there isn't, I don't care." -John Lennon

"I've never really done anything to create what has happened. It creates itself. I'm here because it happened. But I didn't do anything to make it happen apart from saying 'Yes'" -Ringo Starr

"I think people who truly can live a life in music are telling the world, 'You can have my love, you can have my smiles. Forget the bad parts, you don't need them. Just take the music, the goodness, because it's the very best, and it's the part I give most willingly.'" -George Harrison

"There's a lot of random in our songs...writing, thinking, letting others think of bits-then bam, you've the jigsaw puzzle." -Paul McCartney

"We thought that if we lasted for two to three years that would be fantastic." -Ringo Starr

"I'm really glad that most of our songs were about love, peace and understanding." -Paul McCartney

Here are the box pictures for some of their awesome movies

And here are just some more pictures of the Fab Four