The 1960’s were known as The Beatle Decade. The Beatles revolutionized music in that they were the first band to have a major mainstream success (Associatedcontent.com). The Beatles played all over the world and wrote music that everyone loved. They started out as a young boy band fifty years ago and to this day, their music is still playing. The impact the Fab four had on the world is
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Because it took so long to produce, The Beatles released a double sided singles to fill in the long gap. Released in February of 1967, "Rain" and "Strawberry Fields Forever," were noted for their amazing electronically altered sounds. In June of 1967, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was released.
By 16, he made the successful choice to switch to the baritone saxophone and was then involved in the Lucky Thompson’s band in 1947. His music has been described as being “very long, tumbling, double-time melodic lines. And that raw, piercing, bark-like timbre”. He had an amazing ability to play the difficult baritone at very fast paces of hard bop music like no other player had before. Some of his most famous songs include; Binary, Alone Together, and Now in Our lives.
The Beatles were a band that influenced Pink Floyd greatly in the lead up to the release of Dark Side of the Moon; most bands were influenced by the Beatles at this time. Sgt. Peppers Lonely Heart Club Band, labelled the bible of summer 1967, gobsmacked musicians all over the world, Pink Floyd being no exception. When Syd Barrett was still in the band, he quoted from the album‘s title song in his own single Apples and Oranges, while Walters twice quoted Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, lyrically in Let There be More Light, and musically in Point me at the Sky. When Gilmour joined, he took much of his guitar sound from the sonic palette used for The Beatle’s The White Album.
They had begun working on two songs particularly for this new album in late 1966: Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields Forever. The Beatles originally planned for the album to have a theme of childhood nostalgia. The titles Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields are actually real places from the
Music was an escape for Bruce, and he was inspired to pursue a career in music after seeing Elvis and the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. He taught himself to play the guitar, and when he was 16; his mother took out a loan to buy him a guitar for Christmas. During Bruce Springsteen concerts, he would express feelings about his family and the problems he endure during childhood. Basically he used memories from childhood and current issues to write his music. One of the best songs he ever wrote was “Born to Run”.
Rock Music History Final Paper April 25, 2012 Boys II Men Who would have thought that such a young group of young men would of tuned into the best R&B group of all time. It all begins at an early age at Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts in Philadelphia in 1988. They were originally known as Unique Attraction in High school. Nathan Morris and Marc Nelson are who came together at first and then they recruited the winning formula by getting tenors Wanya Morris and Shawn Stockman and also Bass singer Michael McCary. The group rehearsed and rehearsed, they often rehearsed in Bathrooms due to the acoustics that the Bathroom Provided.
The Beatles were clever and abnormally demanding in the ways they shaped and elaborated their musical ideas. Each Beatle had a different personal style; Paul McCartney, having a natural melodic temperament voiced his romantic- sentimental confidence in a wide range of tunes that were capable of being sung or whistled without musical support (Studwell & Lonergan). His harmonic designs were the most stylish in the Beatles’ repertoire, often demonstrating classical grace and formal composure. John Lennon on the other hand preferred lines close to the narrow span of speech-inflections, depended on harmonic context to emphasize color and emotional power. Lennon-McCartney became the house name for original song writing and in many cases succeeded
In this essay I will be comparing “Love Me Do” – (1962) – by The Beatles with “Breathe” – (1972) – by Pink Floyd, displaying the use of melody and harmony used in each song in contrast with one another. The instrumentation varies significantly between both songs - and indeed between both bands altogether – which has a direct effect on the harmonies and melodic devices that could be used in each song because of the different ranges in the specific instruments. Examples of this in “Love Me Do” is John Lennon’s use of a chromatic harmonica, which is capable of playing twelve notes of the Western Chromatic scale, and Lennon played the harmonica introduction to this song in diatonic C; however in “Breathe” (Slide Guitar and Organ) the instrumentation lends itself to new time signatures and utilises the technical advances in recording at that time. Pink Floyd’s music was (is) far more elaborate than that of The Beatles, as the structure of the chorus suggests that music is the only release from daily noise and day-to-day life. The tempo is quite slow (which is typical of Pink Floyd) in “Breathe” in common time (4/4) with the first four lines of music being based on the progression Em9 – A, and the last four lines of the song being based on the more vivid chord progression CMaj7 – Bm – F – G – Dm7 .
It is recognized all over the world, and it has the ability to bring people together in times of joy, tragedy, war, and peace. As someone who understands both the simplicity and the complexity of music, I am very opinionated as to what makes music “good” or in better words, worth listening to. Composers such as Vivaldi, Mozart, and many others helped to define music of their generations. Everyone knew and appreciated the works they composed, and a great number of people still find the time to appreciate it. In the rock and roll era, The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix, and Led Zeppelin started revolutions in their own ways.