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40 unusual facts about the Beatles


1964 Liberty Bowl

It was played indoors at a temperature of 60°F on December 19, 1964 in front of a crowd of 6,059 at the Atlantic City Convention Hall (now known as Boardwalk Hall) which had already hosted events including the Boardwalk Bowl, Miss America Pageant, the 1964 Democratic National Convention that nominated Lyndon B. Johnson for President and one of The Beatles' largest concerts in their first American tour.

2010–11 Miami Heat season

During a post-game chat with Sun Sports' Jason Jackson on January 3, 2011, LeBron James joked "I see we sell out 99.1 percent on the road, so we call ourselves the Heatles off the Beatles, so every time we take our show on the road we bring a great crowd", giving the Heat's trio the unofficial nickname.

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During a postgame chat with Sun Sports' Jason Jackson on January 3, 2011, LeBron James joked "I see we sell out 99.1 percent on the road, so we call ourselves the Heatles off the Beatles, so every time we take our show on the road we bring a great crowd", giving the Heat's famed trio the unofficial nickname.

Alan W. Pollack

He is best known for having musically analysed every Beatles song released.

Allamuchy Township, New Jersey

In 1972 a left-wing group called the Allamuchy Tribe, led by activists Rennie Davis and Jerry Rubin and funded by ex-Beatle John Lennon, met at the Peter Stuyvesant Farm in Allamuchy to organize protests against the 1972 Republican National Convention.

Blokker, North Holland

The village is primarily known in The Netherlands because in 1964 The Beatles gave their two only concerts on Dutch soil there.

Breakfast with the Beatles

The segment format typically features one or more hours of programing consisting exclusively of music by or related to The Beatles.

Brenell Engineering

All of The Beatles had Brenell tape recorders installed in their homes.

Chuck Boyd

Between 1964 and 1979, Boyd photographed artists and musicians including The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, and The Who.

Constant Martin

His Clavioline would be used by famous artists of the day such as The Beatles, Del Shannon, and The Tornados.

Cuban rock

In 2004, Castro made a speech honouring the birthday of John Lennon (whose music, both with The Beatles and as a solo artist had been banned in Cuba).

Danny Neaverth

Neaverth, on behalf of WKBW, was offered the chance to bring The Beatles to Buffalo Memorial Auditorium on February 10, 1964, the day after the band had appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show.

De Volta Ao Planeta Dos Mutantes

De Volta Ao Planeta Dos Mutantes is a two disc best of compilation that includes popular and lesser known tracks from Os Mutantes first five albums, O A e o Z, Tecnicolor, and A Banda Tropicalista do Duprat by Rogério Duprat which includes a cover of The Beatles' "Lady Madonna".

Derek Riordan

Riordan caused controversy in 2005 when he appeared in a video that showed him singing that Hearts player Rudi Skacel was a "fuckin' refugee", to the tune of The Beatles's "Yellow Submarine".

Django Haskins

His family's love for music exposed him to the likes of Cole Porter, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Motown, Gershwin, Thelonious Monk, The Replacements and Elvis Costello, familiarising him with pop music and its many forms.

El Prodigio

His American music interpretations include "Mountain Dance" (originally performed by Dave Grusin) and "Twist and Shout" by The Beatles.

Giles Martin

In 2009 Martin returned to the Beatles catalogue with The Beatles: Rock Band, a video game that allows players to simulate performing Beatles songs with plastic instruments.

Hadar, Ethiopia

The name 'Lucy' was inspired by the song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", by The Beatles, which happened to be playing on the radio at base camp.

Imrat Khan

In addition to his sons, Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones and George Harrison of The Beatles (who also studied under Ravi Shankar) have been some of his famous students.

John Lavington Bonython

In the last role he brought many of the "jazz greats" to Adelaide, and played a major role in negotiating the addition of Adelaide to The Beatles 1964 tour of Australia.

Kenneth Womack

In addition to his work as novelist, Womack is the author and editor of three books devoted to The Beatles, including Reading the Beatles: Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, and the Fab Four (2006; with Todd F. Davis), Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles (2007), and The Cambridge Companion to the Beatles (2009), which was named by The Independent as the 2009 Music Book of the Year.

Lewis Shiner

Several of his novels have rock music as a theme or main focus, especially the musicians of the late 1960s; for example, Shiner's 1993 novel Glimpses considers the great never-recorded albums of The Doors, Brian Wilson, The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix.

Lingasong Records

Lingasong Records was a record label formed by Paul Murphy of Buk Records for the sole purpose of producing and marketing The Beatles' live album Live! at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962.

Lisa Law

Whether she was backstage with The Beatles, Peter, Paul and Mary, The Kingston Trio, Otis Redding, The Lovin Spoonful, The Velvet Underground, The Byrds, taking promotional photographs of Janis Joplin and Big Brother, or at home making dinner for house guests like Bob Dylan or Andy Warhol or helping feed hundreds of thousands at Woodstock with the Hog Farm Commune, her passion for photography grew into a profession.

Louis Siciliano

In 1997 he attended the Engineering Sound course at the Audio Institute of America with Peter Miller, The Beatles' sound engineer.

Marciano Cantero

Cantero was nine when he first heard The Beatles, which he credits as one of his most important influences in his music.

Maxim's Catering

The world-famous rock-and-roll group The Platters performed at the restaurant's opening, and in 1960 The Beatles also performed there during a visit to Hong Kong.

Moona Lisa

In 1965, she presented her own rock group on the show to rival The Beatles.

Paul S. Allen

He is a fan of Jaguar sports cars, The Beatles,Sheffield Wednesday soccer team and is a keeper of Border Collies.

Phonetic palindrome

The Beatles song "Hello, Goodbye" has a phonetic palindrome.

Rautalanka

The golden age of rautalanka in Finland lasted from early 1961 to late 1963, when the interest of youth at large shifted away from the Finnish style to merseybeat, led by The Beatles.

Richard Milward

Adam is a shy, ungainly youth with obsessive compulsive disorder, a love of The Beatles, and a violent father.

Robert Fleck

Despite his dismal goalscoring record at Chelsea, he is remembered fondly by the club's fans, who sang a song in his honour – We all live in a Robert Fleck world – based on the lyrics of Yellow Submarine by The Beatles.

The Beatles: An Illustrated Record

The Beatles: An Illustrated Record is a 1975 book by music journalists Roy Carr and Tony Tyler, published by Harmony Books (ISBN 0-517-52045-1).

The Beatles' 1964 world tour

Note: As Ringo Starr was hospitalized in the UK, Jimmie Nicol was temporarily hired to stand in for Ringo as a drummer for the shows from 4 June -13 June until Ringo rejoined the group in Melbourne.

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Tony Tyler

He co-wrote (with Roy Carr) The Beatles: An Illustrated Record (1975), the first critical assessment of the complete works of The Beatles after their split.

Traffic sign

Bands such as The Beatles and Lynyrd Skynyrd have exacerbated street sign theft as their songs and albums include real place names including Penny Lane, Blue Jay Way, Abbey Road, and Brickyard Road.

William Batty

Batty was one of the most successful circus proprietors in Victorian England, and helped launch the careers of a number of leading Victorian circus personalities, such as Pablo Fanque, the versatile performer and later circus proprietor (best known today from his mention in The Beatles song "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!"), and W.F. Wallett, one of most celebrated clowns of the era.

You Know What to Do

During a photographic assignment on the morning of 3 June 1964, Ringo Starr was taken ill with tonsillitis and pharyngitis, 24 hours before the Beatles were due to leave for a six country tour.


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It was named after the famous 1960s pop and rock group The Beatles.

Albert Stubbins

Stubbins' later claim to fame was an appearance on the front cover of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album, the only footballer to be given that honour.

Alfie Bass

He has had many cameo roles, such as the Indian restaurant doorman in The Beatles' movie Help! (1965), as Clouseau's seafaring informant in Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978), and in Moonraker (1979).

Backdoor progression

The backdoor progression can be found in popular jazz standards in such places as measures 7 and 8 of the A section of "Cherokee," measures 9 and 11 of "My Romance" or measures 10 and 28 of "There Will Never Be Another You," as well as Beatles songs like "In My Life" and "If I Fell."

Bob Moog Foundation

His instruments have been included in recordings by Wendy Carlos, Keith Emerson, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Stevie Wonder, Yes and a host of others.

Clarence Tex Walker

In Las Vegas, Walker appeared with the Drifters who worked in the same venues with Sammy Davis, Jr., Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Tony Bennett and many major rock, blues and jazz artists including: The Rolling Stones; The Beatles; B.B. King; Aretha Franklin; Louis Armstrong; Count Basie; Herbie Hancock; Miles Davis; Ray Charles and Nat King Cole.

Dancehall Sweethearts

A video was recorded for Ireland's national broadcaster, RTÉ, of Horslips performing King of the Fairies, a set dance, Beatles-style on the roof of Bank of Ireland's headquarters in 1975.

David McCallum, Sr.

In 1967 McCallum was one of 40 musicians assembled to perform on The Beatles' track "A Day in the Life".

Des O'Connor

He has worked with many personalities of the day, from rock and pop stars, actors and TV performers, to politicians, princes, to luminaries such as Frank Sinatra, Adam Faith, Sean Connery, Liberace, the Beatles, Shirley Bassey, Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Cilla Black, Tony Blair and members of the Royal Family.

Doyle Holly

During the Carnegie Hall concert, the Buckaroos returned a favor to The Beatles and played "Twist and Shout" while wearing Beatles wigs.

Electric Love Muffin

While the band's original songs won raves from critics, imaginative covers of The Beatles' "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" and the '60s chestnut "Venus" (then best known for Bananarama's version) were highlights of the live set.

For the Boys

The movie soundtrack features adaptations of many classic songs, including "Come Rain or Come Shine", "Baby, It's Cold Outside" by Frank Loesser, "P.S. I Love You", "I Remember You", "Every Road Leads Back To You" and the Beatles' "In My Life".

From the Soul of Man

Lattimore also reimagines The Beatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" as a soulful ballad that closes with a hypnotically layered arrangement of background vocals.

Golden Eggs

The bootleg was something of a first, as up until that point, rock bootlegs had been the domain of only the most successful acts, such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin and Bob Dylan.

Googleshare

For example you can query Google for "Beatles" and "Paul", versus "Beatles" and "Ringo", and see who has a higher Googleshare for "Beatles".

Joey Reynolds

Reynolds and Neaverth, on behalf of WKBW, were offered the chance to bring The Beatles to Buffalo Memorial Auditorium on February 10, 1964, the day after the band had appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show.

KFRC-FM

Some of the music played in the Spring of 1967 included Jefferson Airplane's album Surrealistic Pillow, the first Grateful Dead album, Jimi Hendrix's Are You Experienced and The Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, which KMPX played uninterrupted in its entirety.

Kid Confucius

Kid Confucius draws an eclectic mix of old soul from Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Sly & The Family Stone and Otis Redding, pop from The Beatles and The Beach Boys to the Neptunes, and rock from groups such as Kings Of Leon, The Strokes, Phoenix and The Rolling Stones.

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With newfound influences such as Kings Of Leon, The Strokes, Phoenix and The Beatles meeting older influences such as Marvin Gaye and Otis Redding, the new Kid Confucius is more of a live garage soul experience.

Konobar

For the B-side the band chose to record a cover version of The Beatles' track I've Got a Feeling.

Marcelo Camelo

Marcelo is the composer, singer and solo player of the biggest hit of Los Hermanos, the song Anna Julia, which became a world hit with Jim Capaldi's english version, featuring himself in vocals, Deep Purple's Ian Pace in drums, The Jam's Paul Weller in bass and the beatle George Harrison in guitar (playing the solo).

Mauri Kunnas

The comic parodies 1970s-1980s era rock and roll culture such as The Beatles and The Rolling Stones in a Finnish style.

Nia Vardalos

She performed The Beatles song "Golden Slumbers" on the 2006 charity album Unexpected Dreams – Songs From the Stars.

Orrell Park

The area has historical and cultural links which include the Titanic, The Beatles and The Canadian Army Mutiny in the First World War.

Pandemonium Shadow Show

Among the original songs by Nilsson, were one by Phil Spector (who had earlier co-written a song with Nilsson), Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, "River Deep - Mountain High", and two by The Beatles; She's Leaving Home and "You Can't Do That", the latter in an arrangement that quoted twenty other Beatles lyrics.

Rex Makin

He is most noted for his involvement with The Beatles' early career and subsequently high-profile cases such as the Hillsborough and Heysel Stadium disasters, the Walton sextuplets, and the re-opening of the Cameo Murders case.

Ruben Hakhverdyan

Three songs that Hakhverdyan himself says have influenced him most and have been his all-time favorites are Eleanor Rigby by The Beatles, Amsterdam by Jacques Brel and It's a Man's World by James Brown.

Sgt. Pepper Live

Pepper Live is a performance by American band Cheap Trick with a full orchestra which was released on 25 August 2009, in commemoration of the forty-second anniversary of the release of the historic album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles.

So Emotional

"So Emotional" went to the #1 position as well, giving her six consecutive number-one singles; putting her in a three-way tie with The Beatles and The Bee Gees.

Some Other Guy

The song was part of The Beatles' live repertoire in 1962-63, and a recording was made on 19 June 1963 during a live BBC radio performance by the band at The Playhouse Theatre, London.

Startling Music

After The Beatles broke-up in 1970, Starr wrote or co-wrote much more of his own material for his solo records (with Vini Poncia becoming a longtime collaborator and Harrison teaming up with Starr on "Photograph" and other songs) and Startling Music continued to publish Starr's new music.

Taliesin Orchestra

On Rock Rhapsody (2008) the band covered such famous songs such as Pink Floyd's "Another Brick In The Wall", Eric Clapton's "Layla" and The Beatles' "Hey Jude".

Tara Browne

According to some sources, he was the inspiration for the Beatles song "A Day in the Life".

The Breetles

Their style has been described as primarily resembling those of The Who, The Beatles, and The Byrds, and also having aspects of Nazz and Todd Rundgren.

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It also included a song about the Profumo affair ("Christine Keeler") and it closed with a live cover of The Beatles' "I Should Have Known Better" (retitled "I Shoulda Known Better") featuring Eric Andersen on harmony vocals and harmonica.

Tom Rubnitz

A 1987 "public service announcement" for the Art Against AIDS organization's "Summer of Love" project, which visually referenced the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles in tableau vivant form, featured the B-52s, Willi Ninja, Allen Ginsberg, Nam Jun Paik, Quentin Crisp, Lady Bunny and David Byrne, among many others.

Trampled by Turtles

Simonett, Saxhaug, and Young also play in a side project called Dead Man Winter, and Young fronts The Fiddle Heirs and continues to collaborate with Pert Near Sandstone, perhaps most notably on their rendition of The Beatles classic "I Am the Walrus".

WAQY

Now known simply by the stations call letters WAQY, they played a mix of new rock music from the 1980s mixed with older rock artists of the '60s (The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix etc.) and 1970s (Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, etc.) Artists played included then current and popular Arena rock favorites Blue Öyster Cult, Journey, Foreigner and Fleetwood Mac as well as singer and songwriter artist from Tom Petty to Billy Joel.

WSNY

The station began broadcasting a soft rock format on August 6, 1982 when DJ Chuck Martin played the Beatles, "Here Comes the Sun" as the first song to launch Sunny95.