Parsons had already acted as assistant engineer on The Beatles ' Abbey Road and Let It Be, had recently engineered Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, and had produced several acts for EMI Records.

Proper nouns that are plural in form take a plural verb in both AmE and BrE ; for example, The Beatles are a well-known band ; The Saints are the champions, with one major exception: largely for historical reasons, in American English, the United States is is almost universal.

George Martin, producer and arranger for The Beatles, warns arrangers about the intonation issues when only two like instruments play in unison.

* 1970 – Paul McCartney announces that he is leaving The Beatles for personal and professional reasons.

) The Beatles did a cover version of " Words of Love " that was a close reproduction of Holly's version, released on late 1964's Beatles for Sale ( in the U. S., in June 1965 on Beatles VI ).

During the January 1969 sessions for the Let It Be album, the Beatles played a slow impromptu version of " Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues " — although not written by Holly, it was popularized by him — with Lennon mimicking Holly's vocal style ; the recording was eventually released in the mid-1990s on Anthology 3.

He wrote to the newly successful washing-machine entrepreneur John Bloom inviting him to " do for us what Brian Epstein has done for the Beatles — and make another million.

The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band is seen playing its song " Death Cab for Cutie " ( also performed in The Beatles ' film Magical Mystery Tour ) in the DVD, Episode 7.

" John Lennon borrows these same words as lyrics for The Beatles song, Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!

Starting in the mid-1960s, and partly as a result of the success of such UK musicians as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, London became a centre for the worldwide youth culture, exemplified by the Swinging London subculture which made Carnaby Street a household name of youth fashion around the world.

John Lennon played harmonica on early Beatles ' hits as " Love Me Do ", " Please Please Me ", " I'll Get You " and " I Should Have Known Better ", in the later songs such as " Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!

However, in the Beatles Anthology series in 1996, the three surviving Beatles confirmed that there was never an idea of having Julian sit in for his father as part of a Beatles reunion, with McCartney saying " why would we want to subject him to all of this?

But Orton, still on an absolute high, proceeded over the next ten months to revise The Ruffian on the Stair and The Erpingham Camp for the stage as a double called Crimes of Passion ; wrote Funeral Games ; wrote the screenplay Up Against It for the Beatles ; and worked on What the Butler Saw.

In 1976, Moon covered the Beatles ' song " When I'm Sixty-Four " for the soundtrack of the film documentary All This and World War II.

Vit Wagner, writing for The Toronto Star in 2001 on the re-mastered edition of " Forever Changes ," said, "( It ) might not rank with the Beach Boys ' ' Pet Sounds ' and the Beatles ' ' Revolver ' and ' Sgt.

* Beatles Songs ( 1966 ) ( satirical arrangements of four Beatles songs ) for female voice and piano

Beatles for Sale is the fourth studio album by the English rock band The Beatles, released on 4 December 1964 and produced by George Martin for Parlophone.

Beatles for Sale did not produce a single for the UK – the non-album tracks " I Feel Fine " and " She's a Woman " performed that role.

Beatles for Sale did not surface as a regular album in the US until 1987.

In its place was Beatles ' 65 which featured eight songs from Beatles for Sale, plus the A and B-side of " I Feel Fine " and " I'll Be Back " from the UK's A Hard Day's Night album.

The Beatles began their first studio session for Beatles for Sale on 8 June 1964, only seven days after their last session for A Hard Day's Night.

On 26 February 1987, Beatles for Sale was officially released on Compact Disc ( catalogue number CDP 7 46438 2 ), as were three other of The Beatles ' albums, Please Please Me, With The Beatles and A Hard Day's Night.

When Beatles for Sale was being recorded, Beatlemania was just past its peak ; in early 1964, The Beatles had made waves with their television appearances in the United States, sparking unprecedented demand for their records.

Beatles for Sale was The Beatles ' fourth album in 21 months.

The Beatles ' 1968 track " Back in the U. S. S. R " references the instrument in its final verse (" Let me hear your balalaikas ringing out / Come and keep your comrade warm ").

Rock music in India has its origins in 1960s when international stars such as The Beatles visited India and brought their music with them.

Also, in 2007, Paramount sold another one of its " heritage " units, Famous Music, to Sony / ATV Music Publishing ( best known for publishing many songs by The Beatles, and for being co-owned by Michael Jackson ), ending a nearly-eight-decade run as a division of Paramount, being the studio's music publishing arm since the period when the entire company went by the name " Famous Players.

Drawing on sources ranging from the Stooges to The Beatles and The Beach Boys to Herman's Hermits and 1960s girl groups, the Ramones condensed rock ' n ' roll to its primal level: "' 1-2-3-4!

* George Harrison's 1975 song " This Guitar ( Can't Keep from Crying )", a lyrical sequel to his Beatles track " While My Guitar Gently Weeps ", references the magazine in its second verse: " Learned to get up when I fall / Can even climb Rolling Stone walls ".

On August 21, 1965, during a Beatles concert tour, Randy Resnick of B-Sharp, a Minnesota music store, presented Harrison with a second model 360 / 12 FG " New Style " 12-string electric guitar, distinguishable from Harrison's first 12-string by its rounded cutaways and edges.

After the Beatles 1965 summer tour, Paul McCartney frequently used a left-handed 1964 4001S FG Rickenbacker bass, as its tone was better suited to recording than the lightweight Höfner basses he had used previously.

Other bands, including The Moody Blues, The Rolling Stones, and The Beatles would go on to add it to their records, both to provide sound effects and as a musical instrument in its own right.

The band expanded from its folk roots, drawing inspiration from The Beatles, The Byrds and The Lovin ' Spoonful, and gradually developed a more pop-oriented electric sound.

The album's run in the charts was not complete either ; on 7 March 1987, almost 23 years after its original release, Beatles for Sale re-entered the charts briefly for a period of two weeks shortly after the first CD release on 26 February 1987.

" You Like Me Too Much " and " Tell Me What You See " were rejected for use in the film by its director, Richard Lester, though they did appear on the album ( and also on Beatles VI ).

Ian MacDonald, in his book Revolution in the Head, argues that The Beatles was the album in which the band's cryptic messages to its fan base became not merely vague but intentionally and perhaps dangerously open-ended, citing oblique passages in songs like " Glass Onion " ( e. g., " the walrus was Paul ") and " Piggies " (" what they need's a damn good whacking ").

* Also of note: " Cheese & Onions "-the version heard on Saturday Night Live-made its way onto several Beatles bootleg albums, as an unreleased John Lennon demo.

" Twist and Shout " charted again, 16 years after the Beatles broke up, as a result of its prominent appearance in both this film and Back To School ( where Rodney Dangerfield performs a cover version ) which was released the same weekend as Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

In 1956, he began to tour Europe and America playing Indian classical music and increased its popularity there in the 1960s through teaching, performance, and his association with violinist Yehudi Menuhin and rock artist George Harrison of The Beatles.

The Byrds recorded at the same studio and heard Shankar's music, which led them to incorporate some of its elements in theirs, introducing the genre to their friend George Harrison of The Beatles.

Two new 325s were created for Lennon and were shipped to him while The Beatles were in Miami Beach, Florida, on the same 1964 visit to the US: a one-off custom 12-string 325 model and an updated six-string model with modified electronics and vibrato.

The modified treatment ( often misrepresented as a " Wall of Sound ," although neither Spector nor the Beatles used this phrase to refer to the production ) and other overdubs proved controversial among fans and The Beatles themselves.

A Beatallica song is typically a blend of a Beatles song and a Metallica song with a related title ( e. g. " The Thing That Should Not Let It Be ", combining The Beatles ' " Let It Be " and Metallica's " The Thing That Should Not Be " or " And Justice for All My Loving " combining Metallica's " And Justice for All " and the Beatles ' " All My Loving "), though sometimes just a Beatles song will be used as a basis with modified lyrics.

The Beatles, minus John Lennon, recorded 67 takes of the rhythm track, with Harrison on vocals and acoustic guitar, McCartney playing a modified Hammond organ, and Starr on drums.