All you need is ... music!

Have you ever listen to All You Need is Love? It's just one of the several popular songs by the greatest English rock/pop band The Beatles. You have never heard about them? It's absolutely impossible! They stand for the most influential and representative icon of English music of all times. If you're not sure about their songs and music, just skip on YouTube link below and let their sound get to your ears: you'll immediately recognize it from the very starting notes! But first, let's have a look at their origin! 

They were from Liverpool and joined in 1960. With members John Lennon, Paul MacCartney (the two primary songwriters), George Harrison and Ringo Starr, they experimented with different genres, from pop ballads to psychedelia and hard rock. In the early Sixties they became so popular that they came to be perceived as an embodiment of the ideals shared by the era's sociocultural revolutions. 

They gained success in the United Kingdom after their first hit, Love Me Do, in late 1962. They acquired the nickname "the Fab Four" as Beatlemania grew in Britain over the following year, and by early 1964 they had become international stars, leading the "British Invasion" of the United States pop market. From 1965 onwards, the Beatles produced what many consider their finest material, including the innovative and widely influential albums Rubber Soul (1965), Revolver (1966), Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), The Beatles (commonly known as the White Album, 1968) and Abbey Road (1969), that one with the well-known LP cover portraying the four guys crossing the famous street in London where their recording studio was. There's no tourist in London who doesn't take a picture while walking on that crosswalk the way the band did!

They broke up in 1970, but they all had successfull musical carreers, especially Lennon and McCartney. In particular the latter one is still musically active. 

Now, let's enjoy their music! But don't forget to pay attention to the lyrics: it's one of the most effective ways to learn new words and new language structures of English. :) 

 

And now it's your turn! What kind of music do you listen to? Are there any English, American, Irish or whatever other bands/singers you most like? Talk about your favourite music, tell us about it, how you found it, why you like it so much and in what ways they are now the brand new icons of English/American musical culture! ;)