Played bass guitar for The Beatles in the 1960s. Considered the most successful pop composer of all time. In the "Guinness Book of World Records" for most records sold, most #1s (shared) and largest paid audience for a concert (350,000+ people, 1989 in Brazil). After the Beatles, he formed Wings, one of the most commercially successful groups of the 1970s. Post-70s solo career has been sporadic in both commercial and artistic terms. Successes include albums "Tug of War" and "Flowers in the Dirt". Flops include movie Give My Regards to Broad Street (1984) and album "Press to Play".
John Winston (later Ono) Lennon was born on October 9, 1940, in Liverpool England. In the mid 1950s he formed his first band The Quarrymen (after Quarry Bank High School, which he attended), who with the addition of Paul McCartney and George Harrison, later became the Beatles. After some years of performing in Liverpool and Hamburg Germany, Beatlemania erupted in England and Europe in 1963 after the release of their singles "Love Me Do" and "Please Please Me". The next year the Beatles flew to America to appear on the Ed Sullivan Show, and Beatlemania spread worldwide...
The youngest member of the Beatles, George Harrison was often considered "the shy one." In fact, his strong voice was arguably the most underrated of the four. Lennon and McCartney often passed over many of Harrison's song submissions, recording only a small selection of his masterpieces per album (including "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and "Here Comes The Sun"). When Harrison's first solo recording, All Things Must Pass, was released, many music critics felt that the triple album's fruitfulness was a direct result of Lennon and McCartney's neglect. In his work with the Beatles and solo, Harrison blended earthy Roots tones with droning eastern influences and cascading melodies. Compared to Lennon's barbed and bluesy grit or McCartney's jaunty pop sensibilities, the sound was organic and blooming, huge yet worldly. His songs unfolded unpredictably and took the listener to unfamiliar sonic regions. Music enthusiasts credit him for integrating eastern sounds into western music -- Harrison introduced the sitar and Indian ragas to pop music. He also spearheaded the Concert for Bangladesh in 1971, a music festival assembled to benefit Bengali refugees of the India-Pakistan war. Harrison passed away on Nov. 29, 2001, in Los Angeles after losing a prolonged battle with cancer.
Popular drummer, Ringo Starr was born Richard Starkey in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, on July 7, 1940. His parents were divorced when he was 3 and her mother and Richard moved to another home of the same city. While attending Silas Infants' Schools, he was suffering the many diseases which ruined his education. Growing up, he was suffering from severe abdominal pains. He was also diagnosed with a ruptured appendix that led to an inflamed peritoneum, that also led to one of his first surgeries. He was in a coma for a couple of months during which more operations were available, and he was known to be accident prone...