Beat groups: The Beatles, The Who, The Yardbirds, The Moody Blues, The Zombies, Gerry & the Pacemakers, Small Faces, Hermans Hermits, The Dave Clark Five, Manfred Mann, The Kinks, The Shadows, The Hollies, The Easybeats, Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 155. Chapters: The Beatles, The Who, The Yardbirds, The Moody Blues, The Zombies, Gerry & the Pacemakers, Small Faces, Herman's Hermits, The Dave Clark Five, Manfred Mann, The Kinks, The Shadows, The Hollies, The Easybeats, Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich, The Honeycombs, Marmalade, Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs, The Tremeloes, The Nashville Teens, The Troggs, The Bachelors, The Syn, The Searchers, The Creation, The Remo Four, The Fortunes, Freddie and the Dreamers, Goldie & the Gingerbreads, The Swinging Blue Jeans, The Spencer Davis Group, Siluete, The Monks, The John Barry Seven, The 69'ers, The Merseybeats, Elipse, The Mindbenders, Honeybus, The Rattles, The Scorpions, The Rockin' Berries, The Fourmost, The Fifth Estate, The Applejacks, D¿entlmeni, The Undertakers, Sounds Incorporated, The Mojos, The Lords, The Action, The Deakins, The Big Three, The Flee-Rekkers, The Paramounts, The Dakotas, Daltoni, Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers, Downliners Sect, The Escorts, The Outsiders, The Artwoods, Tomi Sovilj i Njegove Siluete, Los Bravos, The Cryin' Shames, Q65, The Matadors, Hep Stars, Liverpool Five, Samonikli, The Churchills, The Outlaws, Bern Elliott and the Fenmen, The Sorrows, Nero and the Gladiators, Iskre, The Moontrekkers, The Hullaballoos, The Rockin' Vickers, The Remains, Hedgehoppers Anonymous, The Liverbirds, The Roadrunners, I Ribelli, The V.I.P.'s, The Purple Gang, The Smoke, Floating di Morel, Tages, The Riot Squad, The Koobas, The Poets, Los Shakers, Ray Brown & The Whispers, The Roulettes, The Syndicats, A Band of Angels, The Black Knights, The Pussycats, The Rats, October Cherries, The D-Men, Johnny and the Semitones, The Puppets. Excerpt: The Beatles were an English rock band, formed in Liverpool in 1960. They are one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. From 1962, the group consisted of John Lennon (rhythm guitar, vocals), Paul McCartney (bass guitar, vocals), George Harrison (lead guitar, vocals) and Ringo Starr (drums, vocals). Rooted in skiffle and 1950s rock and roll, the group later worked in many genres ranging from pop ballads to psychedelic rock, often incorporating classical and other elements in innovative ways. The nature of their enormous popularity, which first emerged as "Beatlemania", transformed as their songwriting grew in sophistication. They came to be perceived as the embodiment of ideals of the social and cultural revolutions of the 1960s. Initially a five-piece line-up of Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe (bass) and Pete Best (drums), they built their reputation playing clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg over a three-year period from 1960. Sutcliffe left the group in 1961, and Best was replaced by Starr the following year. Moulded into a professional outfit by their manager, Brian Epstein, their musical potential was enhanced by the creativity of producer George Martin. They achieved mainstream success in the United Kingdom in late 1962, with their first single, "Love Me Do". Gaining international popularity over the course of the next year, they toured extensively until 1966, then retreated to the recording studio until their break-up in 1970. Each then found success in independent musical careers. Lennon was murdered outside his home in New York City in 1980, and Harrison died of cancer in 2001. McCartney and Starr remain active. During their studio years, they produced what critics consider some...