The Beatles
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The Beatles

John Lennon

Born and raised in Liverpool, Lennon became
involved as a teenager in the skiffle craze; his first band, The Quarrymen,
evolved into The Beatles in 1960. As the group disintegrated towards the end of
the decade, Lennon embarked on a solo career that produced the critically
acclaimed albums John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, and iconic songs
such as "Give Peace a Chance" and "Imagine". After his
marriage to Yoko Ono in 1969, he changed his name to John Ono Lennon. Lennon
disengaged himself from the music business in 1975 to devote time to raising
his infant son Sean, but re-emerged with Ono in 1980 with the new album Double
Fantasy. He was murdered three weeks after its release.
Lennon revealed a rebellious nature and acerbic
wit in his music, writing, drawings, on film, and in interviews. Controversial
through his political and peace activism, he moved to New York City in 1971,
where his criticism of the Vietnam War resulted in a lengthy attempt by Richard
Nixon's administration to deport him, while some of his songs were adopted as
anthems by the anti-war movement.
As of 2012 Lennon's solo album sales in the
United States exceed 14 million units, and as writer, co-writer or performer,
he is responsible for 25 number-one singles on the US Hot 100 chart. In 2002 a
BBC poll on the 100 Greatest Britons voted him eighth, and in 2008, Rolling
Stone ranked him the fifth-greatest singer of all-time. He was posthumously
inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987 and into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame in 1994.
Paul McCartney

McCartney has been described by Guinness World Records as the "most
successful composer and recording artist of all time", with 60 gold discs
and sales of over 100 million albums and 100 million singles, and as the
"most successful songwriter" in United Kingdom chart history. His
Beatles song "Yesterday" has been covered by over 2,200 artists, more
than any other song in history. Wings' 1977 release "Mull of
Kintyre", is one of the all-time best-selling singles in the UK. McCartney
has written or co-written 32 songs that have reached number one on the
Billboard Hot 100, and as of 2012 he has sold over 15.5 million RIAA-certified
units in the United States.
McCartney has released a large catalogue of songs as a solo artist, and
has composed classical and electronic music. He has taken part in projects to
promote international charities related to such subjects as animal rights, seal
hunting, landmines, vegetarianism, poverty and music education. He has been
married three times and is the father of five children.
George Harrison

Although most of the Beatles' songs were written by Lennon and McCartney,
Beatle albums generally included one or two of Harrison's own songs, from With
The Beatles onwards. His later compositions with the Beatles include "Here
Comes the Sun", "Something" and "While My Guitar Gently
Weeps". By the time of the band's break-up, Harrison had accumulated a
backlog of material, which he then released as the triple album All Things Must
Pass in 1970, from which two hit singles originated: a double A-side single,
"My Sweet Lord" backed with "Isn't It a Pity", and
"What Is Life". In addition to his solo work, Harrison co-wrote two
hits for former Beatle Ringo Starr, as well as songs for the Traveling
Wilburys—the supergroup he formed in 1988 with Jeff Lynne, Bob Dylan, Tom
Petty, and Roy Orbison.
Harrison embraced Indian culture and Hinduism in the mid-1960s, and
helped expand Western awareness of sitar music and of the Hare Krishna
movement. With Ravi Shankar he organised the first major charity concert with
the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh. In addition to his musical accomplishments, he
was also a record producer and co-founder of the production company HandMade
Films. In his work as a film producer, he collaborated with people as diverse
as the members of Monty Python and Madonna.
He was married twice, to model Pattie Boyd from 1966 to 1977, and for 23
years to record company secretary Olivia Trinidad Arias, with whom he had one
son, Dhani Harrison. He was a close friend of Eric Clapton. To date, he is the
only Beatle to have published an autobiography, with I Me Mine in 1980.
Harrison died of lung cancer in 2001.
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