The emergence of the name of the Beatles. The Beatles
("The Beatles", MFA: [ðə ˈbiː.tlz]; separately, the members of the ensemble are called the "Beatles", they are also called the "Magnificent Four" [Eng. Fab Four] and the "Liverpool Four") - British rock band from Liverpool, founded in 1960, which included John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. also in different time The group included Stuart Sutcliffe, Pete Best and Jimmy Nichol. Most of The Beatles' compositions were co-authored and signed with the names of John Lennon and Paul McCartney. The band's discography includes 13 official studio albums, published in 1963-1970, and 211 songs.
Starting by emulating the classics of American rock and roll of the 1950s, The Beatles came to their own style and sound. The Beatles had a significant impact on rock music and are recognized by specialists as one of the most successful groups XX century, both in the creative and commercial sense. Many famous rock musicians admit that they became such under the influence of songs Beatles. Since the release of the single “Please Please Me / Ask Me Why” in 1963, the group began their ascent to success, giving rise to a global phenomenon with their work - Beatlemania. The four came first British group, whose records gained popularity and first places in the US charts, and it began the worldwide recognition of British bands, as well as the "Liverpool" (Merseybeat) sound of rock music. The musicians of the group and their producer and sound engineer George Martin own innovative developments in the field of sound recording, combining various styles, including symphonic and psychedelic music, as well as filming video clips.
Bruno Ceriotti (historian): "On this day, the Rory Storm and Hurricanes group (Rory Storm And the The Hurricanes perform at Cambridge Hall (Southport). Lineup: Al Caldwell (aka Rory Storm), Johnny Byrne (aka Johnny "Guitar"), Ty Brien, Walter "Wally" Eymond (aka Lou Walters), Richard Starkey (aka Ringo Starr).
From the diary of Johnny "Guitars" (Rory Storm and the Hurricanes band): "Southport. They played badly."
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Peter Frame: "When Stu Sutcliffe joined the band in January 1960, the first thing he did was to suggest changing the band's name to The Beatals, which would soon (April) be changed a bit."
approx. - it is believed that the name of the group "Beatles" appeared in April 1960. Most likely, from the words of Paul McCartney (Paul: "One April evening in 1960 ..."). According to thebeatleschronology.com, the name The Beatals was proposed by Stu Sutcliffe in January 1960 and was original title groups. He is mentioned by Paul McCartney in his letter to summer camp Butlins. It is possible that, speaking at the art college on Fridays in the first months of 1960, they did not have any official name at all.
From Paul McCartney's Flaming Pie interview:
Floor: Long years there was ambiguity with who came up with the name "The Beatles". George and I clearly remember that it was like this. John and some art school buddies rented an apartment. We were all clustered there on old mattresses - it was so great. Listened to Johnny Barnett's records, raged until the morning, as teenagers do. And then one day John, Stu, George and I were walking down the street, suddenly John and Stu say: “Hey, we have an idea how to name the group - The Beatles, through the letter “a” (according to the rules of grammar, it was supposed to write “The Beetles” - “bugs”). George and I were surprised, and John says: “Well, yes, Stu and I thought of that before.”
So this story is remembered to me and George. But over the years, some have begun to think that John himself came up with the idea for the name of the group, and as evidence they cite the article "A Brief Digression on the Questionable Origins of the Beatles", which John wrote in the early 60s for the Mercybeath newspaper. There were such lines: “Once upon a time there were three little boys, their names were John, George and Paul ... Many people ask: what is the Beatles, why the Beatles, how did this name come about? It came from a vision. A man appeared on a flaming pie and told them: “From now on you are the Beatles with the letter “a”. Of course, there was no vision. John joked, in a goofy manner typical of the time. But some people didn't get the humor. Although, like, everything is so obvious.
George: “Where the name came from is debatable. John claims he made it up, but I remember talking to Stuart the night before. The Crickets, who played along with Buddy Holly, had a similar name, but in fact Stewart adored Marlon Brando, and in the movie The Savage Man there is a scene in which Lee Marvin says: "Johnny, we were looking for you, the bugs miss you, all the bugs miss you." Perhaps both John and Stu remembered it at the same time, and we left this name. We attribute it equally to Sutcliffe and Lennon."
Bill Harry: “I witnessed how John and Stuart [Sutcliffe] came up with the name The Beatles. I called them the college band because they didn't use the Quarryman name anymore and couldn't come up with a new one. They sat in the house where Lennon and Sutcliffe rented an apartment and tried to come up with a name, it turned out stupid names like "Moondogs". Stewart said, "We play a lot of Buddy Holly songs, why don't we name our band after Buddy Holly's Crickets." John replied: "Yes, let's remember the names of insects." Then the name "Beetles" appeared. And the name has become permanent since August 1960.
PAUL: John and Stewart came up with the name. They went to art school, and while George and I were still being forced to sleep by our parents, Stuart and John could do what we only dreamed of: stay up all night. Then they came up with the name.
One April evening in 1960, walking along Gambier Terrace near Liverpool Cathedral, John and Stewart announced: “We want to call the group The Beatles. We thought, “Hmm, sounds creepy, right? Something nasty and creepy, huh?” And then they explained that in this case the word has a double meaning, and it was wonderful ... - "It's okay, this word has two meanings." The name of one of our favorite bands, The Crickets, also has two meanings: playing cricket and also called little grasshoppers. This is great, we thought, this is real literary name. (We later spoke with the Crickets and found out that they had no idea about double meaning its name).
Pauline Sutcliffe: "Stuart didn't like the name of the group" Johnny and moon dogs", which he considered unoriginal. It seemed to him a kind of echo of such famous bands like "Cliff Richard and the Shadows", "Johnny and the Pirates".
Bill Harry: Stewart came up with the name Beetles because it was an insect, and he wanted to connect it with Buddy Holly's Crickets, because the Quarrymen ( approx. - or Johnny and the Moondogs, or both?) used many Holly numbers in her repertoire. That's what they told me at the time."
Paul: “I think Buddy Holly was my first idol. It's not that we just loved him. Many people loved him. Buddy has been a huge influence on us because of his chords. Because when we were learning to play the guitar, many of his songs were based on three chords, and we had learned these chords by that time. It's a big deal to hear a record and be like, "Hey, I can play that!" It was so inspiring. In addition, on the announced tour of Britain, Gene Vincent was supposed to perform with The Beat Boys. How about "The Beetles" (Beetles)?.
Pauline Sutcliffe: Stewart suggested a new name for the band. Buddy Holly had a band called the Crickets, and in the coming months Gene Vincent and the Beat Boys were due to arrive on a UK tour. Why don't they become Beetles? One of the biker gangs in [the movie] The Wild One was also called that. Stu was a big fan of Marlon Brando, a popular movie actor at the time. He watched films with his participation several times, but one film, “Wild”, especially sunk into his soul. The film, shown in Britain, was a resounding success, many wanted to be like the hero Brando, dressed in the skin of the leader of the motorbikers. They rode their motorcycles with a group of chicks and were known as The Beetles.
PAUL: "In the movie 'The Savage', when the character says, 'Even the Bugs miss you!' he points to the girls on the motorcycles. A friend once looked into the dictionary of American slang and found out that "bugs" are motorcyclists' girlfriends. Now think for yourself!"
Albert Goldman: New member group Stu Sutcliffe suggested the band a new name "Beetles" (Beetles) - that was the name of Marlon Brando's rivals in the romantic film about motorcyclists The Savage.
Dave Persails: In the second edition of The Beatles' autobiography, Hunter Davis said that Derek Taylor told him that the title was inspired by the movie Wild. The black leather motorcycle gang was called the Beetles. As Davis writes, “Stu Sutcliffe saw this movie, heard this remark, and when he got home, he suggested it to John as the new name for their band. John agreed, but said that the name would be spelled "Beatles" to emphasize that this is a beat group. Taylor repeated this story in his book.
Derek Taylor: "Stu Sutcliffe saw the then-famous movie" Wild "( approx. - the film premiered on December 30, 1953) and suggested the title immediately after the film. In the plot of the film there is a motorized gang of teenagers "Beetles". At the time, Stewart was imitating Marlon Brando. There has always been a lot of discussion about who came up with the name The Beatles. John claimed he came up with it. But if you watch the movie Wild, you'll see the scene with the motorcycle gang where Johnny's gang (played by Brando) is in the coffee bar and another gang led by Chino (Lee Marvin) rides into town, getting into a fight."
Dave Persails: "Indeed, in the film, Chino's character refers to his gang as the Bugs. In a 1975 radio interview, George Harrison agrees with this version of the origin of the name, and it is more than likely that he was the source of this version for Derek Taylor, who simply retold it.
George: "John would say in an American accent, 'Where are we headed, boys?' and we would say, 'To the top, Johnny! We said it for laughs, but it was actually Johnny, I guess, from the Wild One. Because when Lee Marvin pulls up with his biker gang, if I heard right, I could swear that when Marlon Brando refers to Lee Mervin, then Lee Marvin refers to him, “Listen, Johnny, I think so-and-so, the Bugs think you are so-and-so…”, as if his biker gang was called the Bugs.
Dave Persails: "Bill Harry denies the Wild movie version because he claims the movie was banned in England until the late 1960s and no Beatles were likely watching it at the time the title was coined."
Bill Harry: “The story of the film “Wild” is not credible. It was banned until the late 1960s and they couldn't see it. Their comments were made retroactively."
Dave Persails: "If that's the case, the Beatles must have at least heard of the film (it was banned after all) and may have known story line film, including the name of the biker gang. That possibility, in addition to what George said, makes it plausible."
Bill Harry: “They were also not familiar with the plot of the picture to such details as small dialogues or a vague title. Otherwise, I would have heard about it during my many conversations with them.
Dusty Springfield: John, a question that you have probably been asked a thousand times already, but that you always ... you all lead different versions, answer in different ways, therefore, you will answer it to me now. How did the name "The Beatles" come about?
John A: I just made it up.
Dusty Springfield: Did you just make it up? Another brilliant Beatle!
John A: No, no, really.
Dusty Springfield: Did you have any other name before that?
John: They were called, uh, "Quorrimen" ( approx. - John says the name "The Stonecutters" but not "Johnny and the Moondogs". Again, to the fact that both names were used at that time?).
Dusty Springfield: Ooo. You have a harsh personality.
From an interview with the Beatles:
John: When I was twelve years old, I had a vision. I saw a man on a flaming pie, and he said, “You are the Beatles with an [letter] “a”, and it happened.
From an interview in 1964:
George: John got the name "The Beatles" ...
John: In a vision when I was...
George A: A long time ago, you see, when we were looking, when we needed a name, and everyone came up with a name, and he came up with The Beatles.
From an interview with Bob Costas in November 1991:
Floor: We were asked, uh, someone asked, "How did the band come about?" And instead of saying, “The band started when these guys got together in Woolton City Hall at 19…”, John mumbled something along the lines of, “We had a vision. One person appeared before us on a bun, and we had a vision.
From an interview with Peter McCabe in August 1971:
John: I used to write so-called Beatcomber notes. I used to admire the Beachcomber approx. — Beachcomber - a coast tramp sea wave) in the [Daily] Express, and every week I wrote a column called "Bitcomber". And when I was asked to write a story about the Beatles, it was when I was at Alan Williams' Jacaranda club. I wrote with George "the man who appeared on the flaming pie ...", because even then they were asking: "Where did the name "Beatles" come from"? Bill Harry said, "Look, they ask you about it all the time, so why don't you tell them how the name came about?" So I wrote: "There was one person, and he appeared ...". I used to do that back in school, all this imitation of the Bible: “And he appeared and said:“ You are the Beatles with [the letter] “a” ... and a man appeared from the sky on a flaming cake, and said, you are the Beatles with an “a” ”.
Bill Harry: “I asked John to write a story about the Beatles for Mercy Beat, and I printed it in early 1961, which is where this flaming pie story came from. John had nothing to do with the title of the column. I liked "Beechcomber" in the Daily Express and I gave it the name "Beatcomber" for his column. I also came up with the title "The Dubious Origins of the Beatles as Recited by John Lennon" for this article in the first issue.
From an interview in The New York Times, May 1997, regarding the title of the album's title track "Flaming Pie":
Floor: Anyone who hears the words "flaming cake" or "to me" (unto me) knows that this is a joke. There is much more that remains fiction due to compromise. If not everyone agrees with the story, someone has to give up. Yoko insists in some way that John has full right to this title. She believes that he had a vision. And it still leaves us with a bad taste in our mouths. Therefore, when I was choosing a rhyme for the words “cry” (cry) and “sky” (sky), [the word] “pie” (pie) came to mind. "Flaming Pie" Wow!
Pauline Sutcliffe: “Stu's offer was accepted by John, but since he was the founder and leader of the group, he had to contribute to this cause. And although John loved and respected Stu, it was fundamental for him that the final word was his. John suggested replacing one of the letters. Ultimately, brainstorming with John led to a modified Beatles (The Beatles, you know, like in beat music).
Cynthia: “To match their changing stage persona, they decided to change the name of the band as well. We had a stormy brainstorm around a beer-stained table in a bar called Renshaw Hall, where we often popped in for a drink.”
PAUL: "Thinking about the name 'Crickets', John wondered if there were any other insects to take advantage of their name and play with it. Stew suggested first "The Beetles" ("Beetles"), and then "Beatals" (from the word "beat" - rhythm, beat). At that time, the term "beat" meant not just a rhythm, but a certain trend in the late fifties, musical style based on rhythmic, hard rock and roll. Also, the term was a reminiscence to the then thundering movement of the “beatniks”, which eventually led to the emergence of such terms as “big beat” and “mercy beat”. Lennon, who was always averse to punning, turned it into "Beatles" (a combination of those words) "just for fun, so that the word would be related to beat music."
Floor: John came up with it [name] mostly just as a name, just for the band, you know. We just didn't have a name. Er, well, yes, we had a name, but we had about a dozen a week, you see, and we didn't like it, so we had to settle for one specific name. And one night John came over with the Beatles and he kind of explained that it should be spelled with an 'e-a' and we said, 'Oh yeah, that's hilarious!'
From an interview in 1964:
Interviewer: Why "Bee" (B-e-a), instead of "Bee" (B-e-e)?
George: Well, of course, you see ...
John: Well, you know, if you leave it with a "B", a double "ee"... It was hard enough to get people to understand why it was a "B", never mind, you know.
Ringo: John came up with the name "The Beatles" and he's going to tell you about it now.
John: It just means The Beatles, doesn't it? Do you understand? It's just a name, like "shoe," for example.
Floor: "Shoe". You see, we could not be called "Shoe".
From a telephone interview in February 1964:
George: We've been thinking about a name for a long, long time, and just got our brains out with different names, and then John came along with this Beatles name, which was great, because it was kind of an insect, and also a pun, you know, "b-and-t" on "beat". We just liked the name and we accepted it.
John: Well, I remember, the other day someone at a press conference mentioned the [group] "Crickets" (Crickets). It slipped from my mind. I was looking for a name similar to "Crickets", which has two meanings ( approx. - the word "rickets" has two meanings, "crickets" and the game "Crocket"), and from "crickets" I came to "beaters" (Beatles). I changed it to "Bee" (B-e-a) because it [word] did not have a double meaning - [word] "beetles" (beetles) - " B-double i-t-l-z" has no double meaning. So I changed to "a", added "e" to "a", and then it began to have a double meaning.
Jim Stack: What are the two meanings, to be specific.
John: I mean, it doesn't mean two things, but it indicates... It's "beat" (beat) and "beetles" (beetles - bugs), and when you say it, something creepy comes to mind, and when you read it, then it's beat music.
From an interview with Red Beard, KT-Ex-Q, Dallas, April 1990:
Floor: When we first heard [the band] Crickets... Going back to England, there's a cricket game there, and we knew about the cheerful, returning cricket Hoppity ( approx. - 1941 cartoon). So we thought it was going to be brilliant, a really amazing title with double meanings, like the style of the game and the bug. We thought it would be brilliant, we decided, well, we'll take it. So John and Stewart came up with this name that the rest of us hated, with the Beatles, which is spelled with an "a". We asked: "Why?" They said, "Well, you know, it's bugs, and it's double meaning, like Crickets." Many things influenced us, different spheres.
Cynthia: "John loved Buddy Holly and the Crickets, so he suggested playing with insect names. It was John who came up with the Beetles. He made “Beatles” out of them, drawing attention to the fact that if you swap the syllables, you get “les beat”, and this sounds in the French manner - elegant and witty. In the end, they settled on the name "Silver Beatles" (Silver Beatles).
John: “And so I came up with: beetles (beetles), only we will write differently: “beatles” (Beatles is a “hybrid” of two words: beetle- beetle and to beat- hit) to hint at a connection with beat music - such a playful play on words.
Pauline Sutcliffe: “And after brainstorming with John, The Beatles were born – you know, like in beat (beat) music?”
Hunter Davis: "Thus, although final version John came up with the name, thanks to Stu, that combination of sounds of the name of the group was born, which became the basis of the name of the group.
Pauline Sutcliffe: “Without a doubt, if Stu and John had not met one day, the group would not have had the name The Beatles.
Royston Ellis (British poet and novelist): “When I suggested to John that they come to London in July, I asked what the name of their group was. When he said it, I asked him to write the title. He explained that they got the idea from the name of the car "Volswagen" (beetle). I said that they have a “Beat” [Beat] lifestyle, “Beat” music, that they support me as a beat poet, and I wondered why they don’t write their name with an “A”? I don't know why John is considered to have adopted this spelling, but it was I who inspired him to stop there. His oft-quoted story about the title mentions "a man on a flaming pie". This is a playful reference to the night I made a frozen chicken and mushroom pie for dinner for the guys (and girls) in that apartment. And I managed to burn it."
Pete Shotton: “Having completed my training, I finally, for a plausible alternative, allowed myself to be persuaded to join the police. To my dismay, I was immediately sent on patrol (where do you think?!) in Garston, the site of the "Bloodbaths"! Moreover, I was also assigned to night shift, while my weapon was a traditional whistle, and a flashlight - and with this I had to defend myself from the wild animals of those infamous vile streets! I was not even twenty at the time, and walking around my precinct, I experienced incredible fear, so it is not surprising that after a year and a half I quit the police.
During this period, I had relatively little contact with John, who in turn was new life with Stuart and Cynthia. Our meetings became more frequent after I became a partner in the owner of the Old Dutch Café, a more or less respectable hangout near Penny Lane. The Old Woman was one of the few establishments in Liverpool that didn't close until late at night, and for a long time served as a convenient meeting place for John, Paul, and all our old friends.
John and Paul often stayed there at night after the band played, and then boarded their buses at the Penny Lane terminus. By the time I started working at the Old Woman on the night shift, they had already adopted black leather jackets and pants as their uniform (? approx. — most likely, Pete eventually forgot that the "skin" appeared after Hamburg) and baptized himself into the Beatles.
When I asked about the origin of this strange name, John said that he and Stuart were looking for something zoological, like Phil Spector's Cubs and Buddy Holly's Crickets. Having tried and discarded options like "Lions", "Tigers", etc. they chose the Beetles. The idea of naming his band such a low form of life appealed to John's twisted sense of humor.
But despite the new name and clothing, the prospects for the Beatles, and John in particular, looked bleak to say the least. By 1960, Merseyside was literally teeming with hundreds of rock 'n' roll bands, and some of them, like Rory Storm and the Hurricanes or Jerry and the Pacemakers, had far more fans than the Beatles, who didn't yet have a permanent drummer. In addition, in Liverpool, which occupied a rather modest place among other cities, even Rory and Jerry did not have the desire to achieve primacy in rock and roll as an end in itself. However, John had already convinced himself that sooner or later the whole country, if not the whole world, would learn to pronounce the word "beetles" with the letter "a".
Len Harry: “One day they were talking about renaming the band to The Beatles, and I thought what strange name. You immediately remember some crawling creatures. It had nothing to do with music for me."
Peter Frame: Since January, the band has been performing under the name Beatals. From May to June under the name Silver Beetles, from June to July under the name Silver Beatles. Since August, the band has been called simply The Beatles.
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Fact #5037
In Texas in 1966, religious groups staged a public burning of the Beatles' records in response to a phrase John Lennon had thrown in an interview: Lennon declared that "Christianity is in decline and the Beatles have become more popular than Jesus Christ."
On Saturday, August 13, 1966, one of the first record bonfires was held in Longview, Texas, and hosted by local radio station KLUE.
The next day, August 14, lightning struck the tower of this radio station. A large amount of equipment was damaged by a lightning strike, and the director of the news department was taken to the hospital.
Fact #5096
In 2009 Liverpool's Hope University opened a specialization called The Beatles, Popular Music and Society. The curriculum states the history of the group in the context of world history. The training consists of four 12-week semesters, and at the end of it the student defends thesis and earns a master's degree. "Thousands of books have been written about The Beatles, but there is not a single serious scientific study among them. Now, when forty years have passed since the breakup of the group and passions have subsided, it's time to start studying The Beatles. Liverpool is the most appropriate place for this, since all musicians were born and raised here, "comments Michael Broken, senior lecturer of the course" Popular music"in Hope.
Source: article by Pavel Filippov, magazine " Rolling stone April 2009
Fact #5514
British scientists have proven that the British loved the Beatles because they sang about ... the weather. So says The Telegraph, referring to the findings of experts from Oxford and Southampton universities. Scientists examined 308 Beatles songs and found that 48 works mention the weather; thus, the share of songs about the weather in their work was 16%.
People in the UK love to talk about the weather, and the Beatles were no exception: they wrote the most songs on this topic among more than 900 songwriters and performers whose work was studied in this scientific work.
The study was published in the journal Weather. Experts analyzed the texts, musical genres, tonality and connection with certain weather phenomena. It turned out that out of 500 greatest songs of all time (according to Rolling Stone magazine) 7% of songs are about the weather. Of the 190 songs, 86 are about the sun, and 74 are about rain. The Beatles' "Here Comes The Sun" is also mentioned there: the authors were inspired by the first spring sunny day after a long cold winter.
