The Beatles - Come Together 1969
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.6.2 : Interpret information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and explain how it contributes to a topic, text, or issue under study.
They broke up forty years ago, but their names are still instantly recognized by music fans of all ages all over the world: John, Paul, George, and Ringo. The Beatles were a band unlike any other, and their history is filled with interesting facts. Here are just a few!
The Beatles are the most popular and successful band of all time.
The Fab Four, as they were known, produced a record twenty number one songs in the U.S. alone, and more than 600 million copies of their albums have been sold. One week in 1964, all five spots in Billboard Magazine's Top Forty were occupied by Beatles songs, a feat that has never been matched. Their first U.S. television appearance that same year (on The Ed Sullivan Show) was watched by more than 70 million people, over 40 percent of all Americans.
A Beatles song is the most covered song of all time.
According to The Guiness Book of World Records, the Beatles' hit "Yesterday" has been recorded by more than 3,000 artists, the most versions of any song in history. "Yesterday," though considered a Beatles song and included on the album Help!, it was actually performed by Paul McCartney, backed by a string quartet. John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr did not participate in the recording.
The top ten albums of all time include four by the Beatles.
Rolling Stone magazine surveyed a large group of musicians, critics, and others in the music industry, asking them to choose the best albums ever recorded. The list is one more piece of evidence of the Beatles' place in history. The Fab Four appear four times in the top ten alone.The Beatles (also known as The White Album) is number ten, Rubber Soul number five, Revolvernumber three, and according to the experts, the greatest album of all time is Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
What was the world like in 1969?
They broke up forty years ago, but their names are still instantly recognized by music fans of all ages all over the world: John, Paul, George, and Ringo. The Beatles were a band unlike any other, and their history is filled with interesting facts. Here are just a few!
The Beatles are the most popular and successful band of all time.
The Fab Four, as they were known, produced a record twenty number one songs in the U.S. alone, and more than 600 million copies of their albums have been sold. One week in 1964, all five spots in Billboard Magazine's Top Forty were occupied by Beatles songs, a feat that has never been matched. Their first U.S. television appearance that same year (on The Ed Sullivan Show) was watched by more than 70 million people, over 40 percent of all Americans.
A Beatles song is the most covered song of all time.
According to The Guiness Book of World Records, the Beatles' hit "Yesterday" has been recorded by more than 3,000 artists, the most versions of any song in history. "Yesterday," though considered a Beatles song and included on the album Help!, it was actually performed by Paul McCartney, backed by a string quartet. John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr did not participate in the recording.
The top ten albums of all time include four by the Beatles.
Rolling Stone magazine surveyed a large group of musicians, critics, and others in the music industry, asking them to choose the best albums ever recorded. The list is one more piece of evidence of the Beatles' place in history. The Fab Four appear four times in the top ten alone.The Beatles (also known as The White Album) is number ten, Rubber Soul number five, Revolvernumber three, and according to the experts, the greatest album of all time is Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
What was the world like in 1969?