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- Rock 'n' Roll (Rockabilly)
- Elvis Pressley (8 bar blues) Little Richard (Lucille 12-bar blues) Chuck Berry (Johnny B. Good) Buddy Holly & the Crickets (That'll be the Day) The Every Brothers (Dream)
- Hamburg (1961)
- "My Bonnie" (The Beatles with Tony Sheridan "Aint She Sweet" "Cry for a Shadow" (Harrison-Lennon)
- London (Jan. 1962)
- Unsuccessful audition for Decca Records "Searching" "Hello Little Girl" (Lennon-McCartney)
- London (June 1962)
- George Martin, "Love Me Do" "P.S. I Love You" "Ask Me Why" Recorded with Pete Best
- First EMI Recordings (First Single)
- "Love Me Do" - Skiffle - AABA "P.S. I Love You" - AABA - Pop-ballad but with Latin-tinged sound - Maracas cha-cha-cha
- Selected Covers (1960-1963)
- Motown (JL sings lead) - The Marvelettes, "Please Mr. Postman" - The Miracles, "You've Really Got a Hold On Me" Brill building Pop - The Coasters, "Searchin" - The Shirelles, "Baby It's You" Mainstream Pop - Peggy Lee, "Till There Was You" (The Music Man) - Lenny Welsh Soul/Gospel - The Isley Brothers, "Twist and Shout"
- First EMI Recordings - Second Single
- "Please Please Me" (Lennon-McCartney) "Ask Me Why" Released Jan. 1963 and was first no.1 hit
- Three More No. 1 Records
- - "From Me To You" - "She Loves You" - "I Want To Hold Your Hand" - Eyeball to eyeball
- Second Album
- "With The Beatles" - No songs were released as singles - "It Won't Be Long" - "All My Loving"
- The Rolling Stones
- - Present in the London scene - Hard chicago blues feel (Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf) - The Beatles, "I Wanna Be Your Man" (Cover)
- Meanwhile in U.S.
- - Capitol showed no interest in The Beatles (early releases with small independent labels like vee jay and Swan) - Hit Songs from U.S. - The Kingsmen, The Beach Boys, The Drifters
- British Invasion
- Dave Clark Five, Rolling Stones, Jerry and the Pacemakers all occupy no. 1 slots in US charts
- A Hard Day's Night (Movie)
- - Beatles first feature length film - Written by Alun Owen - Directed by Richard Lester
- A Hard Day's Night (Third Album)
- - First album with all original songs - "A Hard Days Night" - "Things We Said Today" - "And I Love Her" - "I'll Be Back Again"
- Beatles For Sale (Fourth Album)
- - Both originals and covers - Chuck Berry (Rock and Roll Music) - Little Richard (Kansas City/Hey Hey Hey) - Buddy Holy (Words of Love) - Carl Perkins (Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby/Honey Dont) - "No Reply" - "I Feel Fine" - "Eight Days a Week"
- Help! (Fifth Album)
- - "Ticket To Ride" - "You've Got To Hid Your Love Away"
- "Ticket to Ride" (1965)
- - John Lennon - Standard form - Everything changes in bridge - Fade out outro with new version of riff
- "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away"
- - All/mostly acoustic - Flute is playing at end - No bridge or chorus - Bob Dylan (I Don't Believe You)
- Bob Dylan
- - Met Beatles in 1950's - Both tap pulse of youth and were taken seriously - "Blowin in the Wind" - "I'm A Loser" has a Bob Dylan feel
- "You're Going To Lose That Girl"
- - Girl Group Style - John lead singer, with backup singers
- "Yesterday"
- - Paul McCartney - AABABA form - Acoustic guitar, viola, violin, cello - Song is sung by Paul only
- "We Can Work It Out"
- - Verse - In major key - Expressive dissonances over unchanging bass - Bridge - introduces change in meter in middle - Outro - Gives a closed harmonic ending - Harmonium is used (old fashioned sounding instrument like nasally accordian)
- Rubber Soul Project (1965)
- - From this point all albums are original songs - Recorded 12-bar blues song that was strictly instrumental (never released) - Turning point - Growing as musicians - Changing Roles (John and Paul began to learn other instruments) - Paul played lead guitar, john ad paul played keyboard, george played sitar - Focus on musical detail - Rich vocals, meaningful lyrics, new timbres, etc. - Songs seem to get along together (song cycle) - Change in youthful listening habits - Shift from music for dancing to music for listening - Shift from fast tempo to a slow tempo (shift from rock 'n' roll to just "rock") - Impact of increasing drug use
- Rubber Soul (Songs)
- Side A - "Drive My Car" - "Norwegian Wood" - "You Won't See Me" - "Nowhere Man" - "Think For Yourself" - "The Word" - "Michelle" Side B - "What Goes On" - "Girl" - "I'm Looking Through You" - "In My Life" - "Wait" - "If I Needed Someone" - "Run For Your Life"