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.

Garth Brooks still continues to sell well and according to Nielsen Soundscan, his albums sales through October 2011 are at 68, 561, 000, which makes him the best-selling albums artist in the United States in the SoundScan era ( since 1991 ), a title held since 1991, well over 5 million ahead of his nearest rival, The Beatles.

* 1957 – John Lennon and Paul McCartney of the Beatles are introduced to each other when Lennon's band the Quarrymen performs at the St. Peter's Church Hall fête in Woolton.

Because of the complex and abstract nature of love, discourse on love is commonly reduced to a thought-terminating cliché, and there are a number of common proverbs regarding love, from Virgil's " Love conquers all " to The Beatles ' " All You Need Is Love ".

Highlights of the album are a reggae version of the Beatles song " I Will ", a rendition of " Wake Nicodemus " featuring the Pipes and Drums of the 48th Highlanders of Canada, and a bar-room ballad, " Alan ", composed by Canadian singer / songwriter Tony Kosinec.

In 2002, McCartney released another live album, Back in the U. S. Live 2002, and the 19 Beatles ' songs included are described as " composed by Paul McCartney and John Lennon ".

** In an interview with London Evening Standard reporter Maureen Cleave, John Lennon of The Beatles states that they are " more popular than Jesus now ".

Wilson exhibited his populist touch in June 1965 when he had The Beatles honoured with the award of MBE ( such awards are officially bestowed by The Queen but are nominated by the Prime Minister of the day ).

Martin's extensive musical training ( which he received at the Guildhall School of Music ) and sophisticated guidance in the studio are often credited as fundamental contributions to the work of The Beatles ; he was without question a key part of the synergy responsible for transforming a good rock-and-roll group into the most celebrated popular musicians of their era.

* Likenesses of Astaire and Rogers, apparently painted over from the Cheek to Cheek dance in Top Hat, are in the " Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds " section of The Beatles film Yellow Submarine ( 1968 ).

Before Evensong each evening, hymn tunes are played on a baton keyboard connected with the bells, but occasionally anything from Beethoven to the Beatles may be heard.

The lyrics are generally believed to concern McCartney's relationship with Jane Asher, also considered to be the muse for future Beatles songs such as " I'm Looking Through You " and " You Won't See Me " from Rubber Soul and " For No One " from Revolver.

Although most of the songs on any given Beatles album are usually credited to the Lennon – McCartney songwriting team, that description is often misleading, and rarely more so than on The Beatles.

) Some South American editions did not feature the Kelly photographs in the gatefold, instead including uncredited performance photographs of the band from circa 1964-65 ( the Beatles are clean-shaven and wearing matching suits in the photos, as Brian Epstein insisted they do in performance during this period ).

* Tony Palmer, in The Observer, wrote shortly after the album's release: " If there is still any doubt that Lennon and McCartney are the greatest songwriters since Schubert, then ... album The Beatles ... should surely see the last vestiges of cultural snobbery and bourgeois prejudice swept away in a deluge of joyful music making ..."

The Rutles ( The Prefab Four ) are a band known for their visual and aural pastiches and parodies of The Beatles.

Composite edits of " We Can Work It Out ", " Day Tripper ", and " Ticket To Ride " are seen in " The Beatles Anthology ," DVD set.

Many of the songs are duets, such as the Beatles ' " In My Life " with Randy Stonehill and the Everly Brothers " All I Have to Do is Dream " with Jeremy Casella.

They have cited several acts that have influenced their work, including Joni Mitchell, The Incredible String Band (" we have all the String Band records our rural sensibilities are similar "), The Beatles (" really became enthralling to us through their psychedelism ") and My Bloody Valentine (" even if we don't sound like them, there's a connection in terms of the approach to music ").

They perform as " John Lennon's Original Quarrymen " and are known as " The Quarrymen – The Band That Became The Beatles

Visits within the property are run by The National Trust, and start from The Beatles Experience at the Albert Dock.

However, in the original article on Young from the first edition of the Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll and a subsequent article in the 1983 Rolling Stone Record Guide, critic Dave Marsh used this album to accuse Young of deliberately manufacturing a self-mythology, arguing that while his highlights could be seen to place him on a level with other artists from his generation like Bob Dylan or The Beatles, the particulars of his catalogue did not bear this out.

This was the same episode of the show in which The Beatles made their first appearance.

In 1964, he achieved that with the first live American appearance of The Beatles, on February 9, 1964, the most-watched program in TV history to that point and still one of the most-watched programs of all time.

* 1964 – The Beatles first arrived in the United States.

* 1964 – The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a " record-busting " audience of 73 million viewers.

The Beatles song " Norwegian Wood ", which first appeared on the band's 1965 album Rubber Soul, was the first western pop song to actually incorporate the sitar ( played by lead guitarist George Harrison ).

He saw The Beatles perform at the Cavern Club when he was 16, then played guitar along to their first album, Please Please Me, learning the chords.

Two of the most successful and influential acts of the era, Bob Dylan and the Beatles, were among the first to experiment with such references.

A similar path was pursued by the Bee Gees, formed in Brisbane, but whose first album Bee Gees ' 1st ( 1967 ), recorded in London, gave them three major hit singles and contained folk, rock and psychedelic elements, heavily influenced by the Beatles.

Phish, along with Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead, and The Beatles, was one of the first bands to have a Usenet newsgroup, rec. music. phish, which launched in 1991.

She was among the first of the " old guard " to recognize this new genre, as seen by her recording music from The Beatles, Randy Newman, Carole King, James Taylor and other up-and-coming songwriters.

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.

George Harrison experimented with slide guitar during the latter half of The Beatles ' career, first using the technique on an early outtake recording of " Strawberry Fields Forever " in 1966.

The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d ( 1956 ) starring Peter Sellers was the first attempt to translate Goons humour to TV ; it was followed by A Show Called Fred and Son of Fred, both made during 1956 and directed by Richard Lester, who went on to work with The Beatles.

Oldham promoted the Rolling Stones as the nasty opposites of the Beatles by having the band pose unsmiling on the cover of the first UK album.

Although the song was written by Lennon during his tenure with the Beatles it was both written and recorded without the help of the band and released as Lennon's first independent single under the " Plastic Ono Band " moniker.

* January 20 – Meet the Beatles !, the first The Beatles album from Capitol Records in the United States, is released ten days after Chicago's Vee-Jay Records releases Introducing ...

* February 1 – The Beatles vault to the # 1 spot on the U. S. singles charts for the first time, with " I Want to Hold Your Hand ", forever changing the way popular music sounds to Americans, also starting the British Invasion in America.

** The Beatles arrive from England at New York City's JFK International Airport, receiving a tumultuous reception from a throng of screaming fans, marking the first occurrence of " Beatlemania " in the United States.

* February 9 – The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show, marking their first live performance on American television.

* July 6 – John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time, as teenagers at Woolton Fete, 3 years before forming the Beatles.

* March 22 – The Beatles release their first album Please Please Me.

* February 9 – The Beatles perform for the first time at the Cavern Club.