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The Beatles are the most commercially sucessful bands in history
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The Beatles' drummer is born
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The Beatles rythm guitarist and lead vocalist is born
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The Beatles bassist and vocalist is born
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The Beatles lead guitarist and vocalist is born
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John Lennon's group The Quarrymen perform and Paul McCartney is invited to join the group. The first two beatles are united
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Paul's classmate George joins the band. John is impressed by his guitar skills. The third beatle unites with the first two.
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The Beatles with Stu Sutcliffe on bass and Pete Best on drums play on their debut in Hamburg for their first serious shows. (they haven't met Ringo yet.)
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The Beatles perform at The Cavern, The Beatles' local hangout spot in Liverpool.
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The beatles get a manager, Brian Epstein who had a record store in Liverpool.
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The Beatles audition for George Martin at Parlophone/EMI Records. He agrees to sighn the band but insists that Pete Best be replaced.
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Richard Starkey a.k.a Ringo Starr joins the group replacing Pete Best in The Beatles. The band is fully united.
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Love Me Do, the first beatles single is released in the U.K. It reaches #21 on the charts.
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The Beatles' first album is released in the U.K.
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With the beatles, their second album is released the same day President Kennedy is shot.
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I Want To Hold Your Hand their second single is released in both the U.K. and the U.S. The record tops the charts for singles for 7 weeks in America.
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The band comes to the U.S. and performs on the Ed Sullivan Show. Their TV debut in America attracts a record-breaking number of about 75 million viewers.
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The Beatles hold all top 5 spots on the singles charts which has never been done before
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The beatles' first film and third album is released.
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The Beatles' fourth album is released. It stayes at #1 on the U.K.'s charts for 8 weeks.
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Help!, the beatles' second film and fifth album is released.
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The Beatles perform one of the largest concerts in music history at Shea Stadium in Queens, New York. The attendance was nearly 60,000 people.
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Yesterday reaches #1 on the charts for 4 weeks straight. It is the most covered song in rock/pop history with more than 2,500 recorded versions.
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The beatles sixth album is released.
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The Beatles' seventh album is released
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The Beatles announce that they will stop touring. Their last big concert was at Candle Stick Park in San Francisco.
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The Beatles eigth album is released.
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The Beatles' ninth album is released.
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The Beatles new record label Apple Records is made.
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Hey Jude, a beatles single, and possibly the best, hits #1 on the charts and stays for ten weeks.
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While on a trip in India, The Beatles record their tenth album.
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The beatles eleventh album is released.
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On the roof of the Apple HQ in London, England, the beatles hold their last perfomance.
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The Beatles' twelth album is released.
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The Beatles break apart for "personal business and musical differences".
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The thirteenth and last beatle album is released.
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While walking back from the studio to his Dakota apartment, John Lennon is assasinated and officially pronounced dead on the way to the hospital.
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The Beatles, after 25 years from making their first album, are inducted into the rock hall.
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George Harrison dies from brain and lung cancer