Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 67. Chapters: The Beatles, The Temptations, Labelle, The Four Seasons, The Marvelettes, Rare Earth, Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, The Sonics, Dick and Dee Dee, Jay and the Americans, The Orlons, The Rattles, The Barron Knights, The Chiffons, The Paramounts, The Tams, The Springfields, The Dixie Nightingales, Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra, The Outlaws, Nero and the Gladiators, The Moontrekkers, Melodeers Chorus, Memphis Symphony Orchestra, The Tornadoes, American Brass Quintet, Hawaii Opera Theatre, Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra, The Blues Busters, Shep and the Limelites, The Romeros, Schola Cantorum of Oxford, Los Mac's, Belfast Operatic Company, The Pyramids, La Sonora Dinamita, University City Symphony Orchestra, London Concert Choir, Les Chaussettes Noires, Wurttembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn, Quartette Tres Bien, China Central Chinese Orchestra, Flamingokvintetten, Cruisers Rock Combo, Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra. Excerpt: The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon (rhythm guitar, vocals), Paul McCartney (bass guitar, vocals), George Harrison (lead guitar, vocals) and Ringo Starr (drums, vocals). Rooted in skiffle and 1950s rock and roll, the group later worked in many genres ranging from pop ballads to psychedelic rock, often incorporating classical and other elements in innovative ways. The nature of their enormous popularity, which first emerged as "Beatlemania," transformed as their songwriting grew in sophistication. They came to be perceived as the embodiment of ideals of the social and cultural revolutions of the 1960s. Initially a five-piece line-up of Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe (bass) and Pete Best ...