MUSIC140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: The Swinging Blue Jeans, Classical Music, String Quartet
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April 1964: the beatles have 12 songs in the billboard top 100 pop, including positions 1 through 5. Three weeks in april - 60% of all record sales. July 1964 the(cid:455) are i(cid:374) a (cid:373)o(cid:448)ie, (cid:862)a hard da(cid:455)(cid:859)s night(cid:863) Importance template for what is to follow: bands coming out of the north of england tried to imitate the upbeat sound of the beatles. Mersey beat: gerry and the pacemakers, the searchers, the swinging blue jeans: mersey beat was the term that came to describe the sound of the earl(cid:455) beatles (cid:894)(cid:862)please please. Me(cid:863), (cid:862)t(cid:449)ist a(cid:374)d hout(cid:863), a(cid:374)d other si(cid:373)ilar hits: the name comes from the river that empties out at liverpool: mersey. July 1965 their second film: help: the beatles were only half-done with the world. They had remade the pop industry and they were going to do it again.