Fun Facts About The Beatles
The Beatles defined the "Merseybeat" sound, a Liverpool-born genre mixing rock and skiffle. While their roots were in Liverpool, they really mastered their craft during grueling eight-hour performance shifts in Hamburg, Germany. Despite being unable to read or write sheet music, they composed enduring hits by ear; the melody for "Yesterday," for instance, famously came to Paul McCartney in a dream. Their unprecedented fame peaked during the "British Invasion," when they held the top five spots on the Billboard Hot 100 simultaneously in 1964. This popularity necessitated the invention of the…
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