The Beatles

John Lennon and Paul McCartney never took guitar lessons. They were so poor that when they finally scraped the money together to purchase their own guitars, they taught themselves the rudimentary skills of the instruments. From this inauspicious origin, these two primary members of the "Fabulous Four" would take Great Britain and America by storm within less than four years, while establishing themselves as millionaires for life. Brian Epstein took the Beatles from four unknown local lads in playing small London pubs, to international recording superstars. Epstein recalls on first impression; "I saw four boys with very l

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McCartney means this, and perhaps he does, but he and the rest of the Beatles are familiar enough with the artistic process to know that when you sell the rights to your own product, you lose control over that product. If he really wanted it to stay a true message, and to stand for an era and not be undermined into sales slogans, he and the other Beatles should have known they had enough money for life, and kept their own rights. One unfortunate aspect which helped to dissolve some of the purity of the Beatles image was the unexpected assassination of John Lennon. No incident in the history of the Beatles did more to galvanize the nation than this unfortunate occurrence. Coming after Water-gate, and near the assassination attempt of Ronald Reagan, it truly seemed that the purity and "love" message of the sixties was gone forever now that one of the "Beatles Forever" was truly gone. The sales of John Lennon's solo albums had not been spectacular but immediately upon his death, his last album skyrocketed to number one on Billboard's Top 40 Albums chart. In addition, the death put an end forever to the speculation that the Beatles, the most desired group of performers in the history of music, might someday reunite in concert.
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