MUSIC140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: The Cavern Club, Ringo Starr, Brian Epstein
11 Aug 2015
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Stroke of good luck from getting brian epstein and george martin: new drummer : ringo starr, september 1962, love me do ringo didn"t drum this song. Single did fairly well: recorded second song please please me . They study lyrics very carefully; very smart. Highest note at the end of the b session. They are doing it themselves though within a guitar band that follows tpa model: november 1963, royal variety performance. Crazy show became famous after this within uk. One of the singles i wanna hold your hand was becoming popular in states: 1964, feb the beatles are coming. Was on ed sullivan show girls went nuts 70 million viewers. This was known as beatlemania: april 1964- have 12 songs at top 100. Top 5 songs were all bealtles songs. Accounted for 60% of sold records worldwide: a hard days night. End of 64" they made 65 million dollars; unprescedented.
