About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 175. Chapters: The Beatles, Queen, Kylie Minogue, Deep Purple, Radiohead, Gorillaz, Pet Shop Boys, Coldplay, Blur, Humphrey Lyttelton, Duran Duran, Bernard Cribbins, Supergrass, The Verve, Peter Ustinov, Paul McCartney, The Church, Richard Ashcroft, Roger Meddows-Taylor, Beverley Knight, A House, Starsailor, Cilla Black, Jamelia, Babyshambles, The Hollies, Bat for Lashes, The Easybeats, The Divine Comedy, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Adam Faith, Siobhan Donaghy, The Herd, Flanders and Swann, Matt Monro, Athlete, Shampoo, The Scaffold, The Temperance Seven, Mrs Mills, The Flys, Don Charles, Frankie Trumbauer, Billy J. Kramer, The Supernaturals, The Sundays, Dubstar, Crazyhead, The Fourmost, The Action, The Paramounts, Simon Dupree and the Big Sound, RPA & The United Nations of Sound, Morning Parade, The Adult Net, Jackie Lee, Tomorrow, Joe Venuti, Scarlet Party, Jimmy Shand, The Onyx, Millicent Martin, Harry Roy, Toe Fat, Mike Sarne, Spacemonkeyz, The Scorpions, The Cougars, Harlan Lattimore, Grass Show, Otis Waygood, Roy Phillips. Excerpt: The Beatles were an English rock band, formed in Liverpool in 1960. They are one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. From 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...
