The Beatles explored their passions through writing music‚ touring the world‚ and experimenting with different sounds that were new to the music industry. The Beatles often incorporated different genres of music including Indian music‚ psychedelic‚ and hard rock‚ which was not done or believed to be a good idea at the time. They didn’t stop at different sounds‚ but they also explored different methods to make music‚ like sampling‚ artificial double tracking‚ and multitrack recording machines. As
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John‚ Paul‚ George and Ringo after the 1970 break-up • 1967 Lennon and McCartney rarely wrote together • The White Album (The Beatles) 1968 signaled the independence of each member felt from the other • 1969 Album Let it Be showed the band in disarray • Manager Brian Epstein in 1967 the group lost its rudder o Paul took control • Abbey Road was their last great effort • Paul legal action to dissolve the group April 1970: • Ringo overdub drums in Abbey Road studio. “I‚ Me‚ My” He is
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John Lennon "When I was 5 years old‚ my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school‚ they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ’happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment‚ and I told them they didn’t understand life" (John Lennon). This was a quotation from John Lennon stating that he wants to become a successful person and be happy. John Lennon created many songs and protests against war‚ used Thinking Flexibly to overcome
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Imagine being a rebel without a clue. What would you do? This is what happens when Eddie “lives the life” in the song “Into The Great Wide Open” by Tom Petty. This story tells how complicated a one hit wonders life is‚ has a changing tone‚ and is very unrealistic. While Eddie was being a rock star‚ his life got pretty complicated. Eddie was eighteen‚ and moved to hollywood. He met this girl‚ and they both had tattoos. Later they moved in together. He worked at a nightclub‚ and later on his girlfriend
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Glen Ballard was born and raised in Natchez‚ Mississippi in 1953. Ballard started working with music by playing piano‚ followed by guitar‚ in his early years. He started writing songs at ten years old and was in many local rock bands by the beginning of fifth grade. Soon after he graduated he joined Elton John’s organization in L.A. in which he had such success to get him a secured professional job as a songwriter at MCA Music Publishing. As his music taste is exceedingly diverse he has worked with
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Robert Allen Zimmerman was born on May 24‚ 1941. Most people know him as the American singer/songwriter‚ Bob Dylan. He was born in Duluth‚ Minnesota‚ and he was raised in Hibbing‚ Minnesota. He was born to Jewish parents‚ Abram Zimmerman and Beatrice Stone. He had one younger brother named David. He lived in Duluth‚ Minnesota until he was six years old‚ that was when he moved to Hibbing‚ Minnesota‚ where he lived for the remainder of his childhood. As a child‚ Bob Dylan enjoyed listening to the
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John Winston Lennon was an extremely talented and very well known songwriter‚ composer‚ and recording artist in the 1960’s. Many people today still look at Lennon as an inspirational singer that put meaning into the songs he wrote. Lennon demonstrates his powerful thought in his best-selling single of his solo career “Imagine”. This song encourages listeners to imagine a world at peace and to not live a life focused on material possessions. He started off small‚ just like any other‚ and had plenty
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The song “Faithless by Default‚” off of Dark Tranquillity’s 2016 album‚ Atoma‚ is an exemplary song that serves a dual purpose. First‚ this song is meant to have an intense and steady melody coupled with a driving rhythm. This is a staple of songs that belong to the genre of melodic death metal. Secondly‚ this song is able to perpetuate the band’s ideas about religion and issues that it presents. Throughout various interviews‚ the members of the band have conveyed their distaste for religion
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John Lennon by Andy Warhol John Lennon by Andy Warhol was created in 1985 (Christies.com)‚ shortly after the Vietnam War ended in 1975 (Kennedy Hickman). John Lennon‚ who was an antiwar activist‚ was assassinated in 1981 (Wikipedia). Due to his pivotal role in the music industry‚ he was extremely influential. Andy Warhol executed his portrait of John as a tribute four years after Lennon’s death. As a medium‚ Warhol used synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen inks on canvas (Christies.com). His
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Back in 2001‚ Joseph Trohman was just another 16 year old Chicago suburb high school student stuck in a low paying job with dreams. Joe‚ as he was called by friends and family‚ had a passion‚ a passion for music. Joe could play the guitar well and had a dream to start a band. With this dream in mind‚ Joe called up a friend from another local band‚ that Joe had toured with‚ Arma Angelus and asked him to play. Pete Wentz was most noticeably the second member of an unnamed band. Peter Wentz was
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