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During the sixties, a craze like no other swept the world: four youngsters from Liverpool with weird haircuts conquered hit lists and concert halls worldwide. The Beatles have been and still are in a class of their own.

Stuart Sutcliffe

The Beatles’ first bassist. He left the group early on in Hamburg to pursue his art. Tragically, he died in 1962 of a brain aneurysm.

Pete Best

The so-called Fifth Beatle joined the group in 1960, a day before they were due to go to Hamburg. He was the Beatles’ drummer for two years, before the rest of the group decided he didn’t fit in and asked for him to leave.

Ringo Starr

Ringo joint the Beatles as drummer when Pete Best left the group. He stayed with them until the breakup of the band in 1970. Ringo in commonly seen as one of the first drummers who was on equal footing with the rest of the band. At that time it was common to replace a group’s drummer in the studio, for example. Starr composed a number of modern and exciting drum solos for the Beatles, and had enjoyed a successful career even after the band’s break up. He has even appeared as an actor in a number of movies and worked as a voice artist for children shows.

George Harrison

George, the Beatles’ lead guitarist, was only seventeen when the band travelled to Hamburg. He had to lie to the authorities to be able to get a work permit. He was often found quieter than the other three, and more spiritual. It was George who got involved with Indian and Hindu culture, and who involved the other band members in that culture. The songs he composed for the Beatles are still well known, most famously “Here Comes The Sun”. After the break up, he started a solo career and later formed The Travelling Wilburys. He worked as a movie producer and even wrote an autobiography. Harrison died of lung cancer in 2001.

Paul McCartney

Paul was the Beatles’ main composer and vocalist alongside John Lennon. He even played bass. During the Beatlemania-years, Paul was considered the best-looking by the Beatles’ female fans and was pursued to an absurd degree. After the breakup of the Beatles, Paul formed The Wings. He had several great hits and continued his solo career after that. McCartney has a number of records to his name: Most successful musician and composer in popular music history and most covered song in the history of recorded music (“Yesterday”) being just some of them.

John Lennon

John Lennon was the other part of the Lennon/McCartney songwriting team. After The Beatles he started a highly successful solo career. Songs like “Imagine” and “Give Peace a Chance” are still highly popular. He was well known for his peace activism in which he was shared by his wife Yoko Ono. John Lennon was killed in December 1980 with four shots in the back.