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By Dom Chandler

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The Beatles

Most Influential band in pop music throughout the whole of britain,whose development linked to the changes of music taste in the 1960s.

Instrumentation Vocals(John Lennon and Paul McCartney along with George Harrison

and Ringo Starr)

Backing Vocals from all the band members Drums

Bass

Electric Guitar

Acoustic Guitar

12 String Acoustic Guitar

Piano Percussion

Sometimes included orchestral sections, electronic keyboards andexperimental studio sounds.

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Performance and Arrangement

• Earlier songs in the career were based on Rock and Roll, Rhythm andBlues and Motown/ Soul Sounds

•It was an energetic and lively band creating those types of songs, with

mainly sweet melodic tunes but less often they did rocky songs.

• The works later on throughout the Beatles career had diverse

instrumentation, complex structures, and changing keys and time

signatures.• They also used SONIC EXPERIMENTATION- which recorded ambient

sound of which they mixed in with the music.

• The recording of the arrangements used reverse tape which played

sounds which had been recorded normally onto a tape and had literally

just been reversed so you heard them the wrong way round.

• Also use of extreme reverb and delay settings and added phasing andflange effects.

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Please Please Me- The First Album (1963)•EMI had to rush the release of this album due to the growing

reputation of the band as a live act.• The recording was captured on a two track tape as basically a live

recording with all instruments on one track and simply just the vocals

on the other. This was mixed into mono.

• Topped the charts for 30 weeks.

•Influenced by R&B and the American Popular sound; lively, guitar

led, catchy.

With the Beatles (1963)• Sold over a million copies, which knocked the previous album off of the

top spot.

• Still straight up rock/pop but with diverse instrumentation with a range of

percussion, hammond organ and a harmonica.• Lennon and McCartney did mainly R&B covers such as “Roll over

Beethoven” and “Money”

• Used sound on sound overdub which included some double tracked

vocals. This time the album was released in both mono and stereo. But

the panning in this type of stereo left a hole in the middle of the stereo

image with guitars and vocals on one side and bass and percussion onthe other

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ar aysNight(1964)• Soundtrack for the film of the same name, which starred The Beatles as

youthful and chaotic figures. The soundtrack and Can’t Buy My Love were

successful singles from the album.

• Recorded onto a FOUR track multi-track record, which was mixed in mono andstereo once again.

BEATLES FOR SALE (1964)

• Recording was squeezed into heavy touring demands.

• Played dark melancholy such as “No Reply”, “ I’m a loser”

and “Baby’s in Black”. The song “Eight Days a Week” wasrecorded in many takes and points to early studio

experimentation as it includes the fade in at the start.

REVOLVER (1966)

• Rocky Album made in more relaxed circumstances as they took a

break from touring to create the album. Used many classical elements

such as a stark string arrangement.

• Psychedelic Influence emerged in “Tomorrow Never Knows” which

featured tape loops, vocal effects and reverse guitar. They also used

automatic double tracking on the album for the first time.

•Songs explored political and social themes.

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Key Facts• Formed in Liverpooooooooooooool.

• Went to play and live in Germany for a bit before being signed by

EMI after widespread live success.• First Band to recieve worldwide recognition.

• Huge international sales of their work continue to this day.

• Their early sound is known as Merseybeat

• Their later sound had strong elements of Psychedelic rock

• Did not perform live after the album “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts

Club Band” • Had a rebel image like the US Bands in the 1960s.

• Known as “the band who changed everything.”

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The Rolling StonesInstrumentation

• Vocals, Backing vocals, electric guitar, bass, drums, percussion;

piano/keyboards, strings and horns at certain times.Performance and Arrangement• Largely influenced by the Chicago Blues and Chuck Berry’s rock and roll

guitar.

• Had raunchy vocals and blues-rock guitar which gave the songs a gritty hard

sound.

• Verse-chorus-verse-bridge-solo song structure, though they have producedsome more adventurous work at times.

Key Facts and Terminology• Rivals to The Beatles for the popularity in the mid to late 60’s.

• Part of the British Invasion that enjoyed popularity in the USA at around that

time.

• Continued to write, record and perform successfully throughout the 1970’s

and 1980’s and remain active today.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wrs5DjHNUOE&feature=related

The Beatles- Yellow Submarine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-Q9D4dcYng

The Beatles- A Day in the Life

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPVUa29kHu8

The Rolling Stones- Paint it Black

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuiTperxZnw

The Rolling Stones- Little Red Rooster

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