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WikiPedia] The Beatles were an English rock band formed in 1960, in the city of Liverpool, comprising of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
Over the course of a decade-long career, The Beatles achieved unprecedented global influence and commercial success, and fundamentally altered the trajectory of popular music through their systematic artistic reinvention. Their catalog spans 13 studio albums containing 213 original compositions, documenting an evolution from concise rock arrangements to complex studio experimentation.
The group's technical innovations—including pioneering use of feedback, tape loops, and multi-track recording—established new parameters for studio production.In addition, they are credited as the archetype for self-contained bands: writing original material, playing instruments, and directing their artistic vision—a model that remains the standard against which subsequent groups are measured.
The Beatles are the best-selling music act of all time, with estimated sales of 600 million units worldwide, and the most successful act in the history of the US Billboard charts.They are the recipients of eight Grammy Awards, four Brit Awards, an Academy Award (for Best Original Song Score for the 1970 documentary film Let It Be) and fifteen Ivor Novello Awards. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in their first year of eligibility, 1988, and each principal member was individually inducted between 1994 and 2015. In 2004 and 2011, the group topped Rolling Stone's lists of the greatest artists in history. Time magazine named them among the 20th century's 100 most important people.
