The Beatles were an English rock band that formed in Liverpool,in 1960.With John Lennon,Paul McCartney,George Harrison,and Ringo Starr,they became widely regarded as the greatest and most influential act of the rock era.
Rooted in skiffle and 1950s rock and roll,the Beatles later experimented with several genres,ranging from pop ballads to psychedelic rock,often incorporating classicalelements in innovative ways.In the early 1960s,their enormous popularity first emerged as "Beatlemania",but as their songwriting grew in sophistication they came to be perceived as an embodiment of the ideals shared by the era's sociocultural revolutions.
The Beatles亦稱為“甲殼蟲樂隊”、“披頭四樂隊” ,是英國利物浦的搖滾樂隊,成員為約翰·列儂、保羅·麥卡特尼、喬治·哈里森及林戈·斯塔爾,星探及經(jīng)紀(jì)人為布萊恩·艾普斯坦.披頭士樂隊被公認為英國音樂在1960年代“英國入侵”美國的代表樂隊.
其音樂風(fēng)格源自1950年代的搖滾,之后開拓了各種曲風(fēng)如迷幻搖滾、流行搖滾、古典音樂的融合等,其音樂性之創(chuàng)新深深影響了之后的歐美樂壇發(fā)展,尤其是列儂與麥卡特尼這一雙子星搭檔更是音樂樂史上最佳唱作搭檔之一.而且隨著作品的社會意識日漸加深,他們的影響力也伸延到六十年代的社會及文化革命方面.