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Biography

So much has been written about the Beatles that it's difficult to summarize their career without restating clichs that have already been digested by…more

Birth Name

Gender

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Credits

Star (1)

Role
- The Beatles
  Playing Their Songs
  - S 3: Ep 6 Wait / I'm Only Sleeping
    10/21/67
  - S 3: Ep 5 Tomorrow Never Knows/I've Just Seen A Face
    10/14/67
  - S 3: Ep 4 Taxman/Eleanor Rigby
    10/7/67
  - S 3: Ep 3 Good Day Sunshine/Ticket To Ride
    9/30/67
  - S 3: Ep 2 And Your Bird Can Sing/Got To Get You Into My Life
    9/23/67
  - + 34 More Credits
Recurring Role (8)

Role
- The Ed Sullivan Show
  Themselves, on film
  - S 23: Ep 13 December 21, 1969: The Swinging, Soulful Sixties
    12/21/69
  - S 21: Ep 12 November 26, 1967: Connie Francis, Al Hirt, John Byner, Morecambe & Wise, Jane Morgan
    11/26/67
  - S 19: Ep 38 June 5, 1966: The Beatles (on tape), Richard Pryor, Jack Benny, Robert Goulet, Charlotte Rae
    6/5/66
  - S 17: Ep 33 May 24, 1964: Liza Minnelli, Duke Ellington, John Paul Vignon, The Beatles (on film)
    5/24/64
  - S 23: Ep 22 Beatles Songbook with The Beatles (on film); Dionne Warwick; Duke Ellington
    3/1/70
- Beat-Club
  Themselves, on film
  - S 4: Ep 11 Show 45: August 2, 1969 (Beach Boys, Dave Clark 5, Steppenwolf, others)
    8/2/69
  - S 4: Ep 8 Show 42: April 26, 1969 (Dave Dee & Co., The Kinks, U.K. Jones, Manfred Mann, Melanie, Clodagh Rodgers, others)
    4/26/69
  - S 4: Ep 3 Bee Gees, Blue Cheer, Dave Dee & Co., Family Dogg, The Hollies, Spooky Tooth, The Who
    11/16/68
  - S 3: Ep 3 Show 26: November 25, 1967 (Bee Gees, Scott McKenzie, Sharon Tandy, others)
    11/25/67
  - S 1: Ep 9 Show 9: June 18, 1966
    6/18/66
  - + 3 More Credits
- American Bandstand
  Themselves, on film
  - S 11: Ep 28 Tribute to the Beatles
    3/30/68
  - S 11: Ep 14 Bruce Channel / The Beatles (on film)
    12/23/67
  - S 10: Ep 27 The Beatles (music videos)
    3/11/67
  - S 8: Ep 6 Beatles Tribute Show
    10/10/64
  - S 7: Ep 44 Tribute to the Beatles (all-Beatles show)
    7/25/64
  - + 2 More Credits
- Top of the Pops (UK)
  Promo Video
  - S 6: Ep 1 4th January 1968
    1/4/68
  - S 4: Ep 52 25th December 1967
    12/25/67
  - S 4: Ep 31 27th July 1967
    7/27/67
  - S 4: Ep 30 20th July 1967
    7/20/67
  - S 4: Ep 29 13th July 1967
    7/13/67
  - + 22 More Credits
- Top of the Pops (UK)
  Repeat Performance
  - S 4: Ep 32 3rd August 1967
    8/3/67
  - S 4: Ep 28 6th July 1967
    7/6/67
  - S 3: Ep 50 26th December 1966 - Christmas Special (1)
    12/26/66
  - S 2: Ep 53 30th December 1965
    12/30/65
  - S 2: Ep 52 Christmas Special 1965
    12/25/65
  - + 15 More Credits
- Top of the Pops (UK)
  Performance
  - S 3: Ep 25 30th June 1966
    6/30/66
  - S 3: Ep 23 16th June 1966
    6/16/66
  - S 2: Ep 15 15th April 1965
    4/15/65
  - S 1: Ep 29 15th July 1964
    7/15/64
  - S 20: Ep 18 5th May 1983 - 1000th Episode
    5/5/83
- Thank Your Lucky Stars (UK)
  Themselves
  - S 5: Ep 8 November 21, 1964
    11/21/64
  - S 4: Ep 42 July 11, 1964
    7/11/64
  - S 4: Ep 13 December 21, 1963
    12/21/63
  - S 4: Ep 5 October 26, 1963
    10/26/63
  - S 3: Ep 48 August 24, 1963
    8/24/63
  - + 5 More Credits
- Top of the Pops (UK)
  Film footage
  - S 1: Ep 1 1st January 1964
    1/1/64
Guest Star (14)

Role
- The Midnight Special
  Themselves, on film
  - S 4: Ep 29 Host: Paul Anka
    5/21/76
- The Music Scene
  Guests, on film
  - S 1: Ep 1 First Show
    9/22/69
- The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
  Guest Star
  - S 3: Ep 3 Show #203
    10/13/68
- Frost on Sunday
  Themselves
  - S 1: Ep 1 The Beatles
    9/8/68
- The Hollywood Palace
  Themselves, on film
  - S 5: Ep 26 Host: Jimmy Durante / Liza Minnelli
    3/30/68
  - S 4: Ep 22 Host: Van Johnson / Liza Minnelli / Mickey Rooney
    2/25/67
- Top of the Pops (UK)
  Promo Video
  - S 4: Ep 47 23rd November 1967
    11/23/67
- Where The Action Is
  Themselves, on film
  - S 3: Ep 135 The Beatles (on film)
    3/14/67
  - S 3: Ep 7 Beatles (filmed interview) / Marvin Gaye / Chad & Jeremy / The Robbs
    9/13/66
- Thank Your Lucky Stars (UK)
  Themselves
  - S 6: Ep 39 June 25, 1966
    6/25/66
  - S 5: Ep 28 April 3, 1965
    4/3/65
- Hullabaloo!
  Themselves, on tape
  - S 2: Ep 16 Show #34 Host: Roger Smith
    1/3/66
- The Ed Sullivan Show
  Themselves
  - S 19: Ep 1 September 12, 1965: The Beatles (4th live appearance), Soupy Sales, Cilla Black
    9/12/65
  - S 17: Ep 21 February 23, 1964: The Beatles (3rd appearance), Cab Calloway, Acker Bilk
    2/23/64
  - S 17: Ep 20 February 16, 1964: The Beatles (2nd appearance), Mitzi Gaynor, Allen & Rossi
    2/16/64
  - S 17: Ep 19 Feburary 9, 1964: The Beatles (1st appearance), Davy Jones, Georgia Brown
    2/9/64
- Ready Steady Go!
  Themselves
  - S 2: Ep 13 November 27, 1964: The Beatles, Kim Weston, Isley Brothers, The Searchers, Sandie Shaw
    11/27/64
  - S 1: Ep 34 March 20, 1964: The Beatles (2nd RSG! appearance), The Animals, Dusty Springfield, Bobby Vee
    3/20/64
  - S 1: Ep 9 October 4, 1963: The Beatles (1st RSG! appearance), Helen Shapiro, Dusty Springfield
    10/4/63
- Shindig
  Themselves
  - S 1: Ep 0 Around The Beatles
    11/15/64
  - S 1: Ep 4 Show 4: October 7, 1964 - The Beatles, Karl Denver Trio, P.J. Proby, Tommy Quickly, Sandie Shaw, Sounds Inc.
    10/7/64
- The Morecambe & Wise Show
  Themselves
  - S 4: Ep 3 April 18, 1964: The Beatles
    4/18/64
- American Bandstand
  Themselves on film

The Beatles News

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Trivia and Quotes

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Trivia
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- On June 5, 2012, a new 4K, frame-by-frame digital restoration of The Beatles' classic 1968 animated feature film, Yellow Submarine, will be released on DVD and Blu-ray disc. It will also be shown in select theaters across the U.S. At the same time, a new digitally remastered soundtrack CD will be released as well. EMI's press release says that "due to the delicate nature of the hand-drawn original artwork, no automated software was used in the digital clean-up of the film's restored photochemical elements." All the work was done by hand, one frame at a time. According to EMI, the original melding of "live-action photography with animation, 3-dimensional sequences and kaleidoscopic 'rotoscoping'" (where film is traced frame by frame into drawings), "took nearly two years, 14 different scripts, 40 animators and 140 technical artists" to complete.
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- On November 16, 2010, after years of bitter wrangling and legal disputes, the entire Beatles catalog of thirteen studio albums, Past Masters and the Red and Blue greatest-hits albums were released for digital distribution on Apple, Inc.'s iTunes. The tracks were made available as either complete album purchases or individual downloads`. At the same time, a rare video recording of the fab four's first US concert (1964) was also released for purchase as part of a digital "boxed set" of the entire catalogue - and, for a limited time, for free streaming as well.
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- On September 9th, 2009, Harmonix Music Systems and MTV Games released The Beatles: RockBand music video game, including 45 digitally remixed Beatles songs (additional tracks have since become available as downloads). On the same day, after a painstaking four-year-long digital remastering process, the core Beatles catalogue was reissued, including the Past Masters compilation of rare and non-album tracks. Three months later, the catalogue was released digitally for the first time on an official, limited edition run of 30,000 USB flash drives - in both FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec), an open and royalty-free digital format, and the more widely used MP3 format (a patented audio encoding process of lesser quality). The Beatles had finally entered the digital age - with a bang!
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Quotes
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- John (on bringing Paul into the band): I'd been kingpin up to then. Now, I thought, if I take him on, what will happen? But he was good. He also looked like Elvis.
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- Paul: I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. "Long Tall Sally" and "Tutti-Frutti", that got me in. That was my audition.
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- Paul: I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.
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