The Beatles

About The Beatles

The most consequential pop group in history. Formed in Liverpool in 1960 around John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, the Beatles spent their seven-year recording career inventing the conventions modern pop still operates inside: the self-contained band, the album as artistic statement, studio production as compositional tool. Their break-up in 1970 ended the decade they had defined.