The Beatles were one of the most successful and influential rock bands of the 20th century. The group was formed by the "Fab Four": John Lennon (rhythm guitar, vocals), Paul McCartney (bass guitar, vocals), George Harrison (lead guitar, vocals), and Ringo Starr (drums, vocals). From Liverpool to Global Domination Formed in Liverpool in 1960, they dominated the British and international charts from 1962 to 1970. In the early 1960s, their enormous popularity sparked a global phenomenon known as "Beatlemania." As their music grew in sophistication—led by primary songwriters Lennon and McCartney—the band evolved from pop idols into the embodiment of the 1960s counterculture. They experimented with psychedelia, Indian classical music, and studio techniques that changed the face of the recording industry forever. A Prolific Legacy The Beatles wrote over 200 songs (including 186 original compositions released during their active years). Their catalog includes timeless mast...
For thousands of year, the literature wasn't printed word but spoken word. Poems, tales, folklore and mythological tales were recited by professional poetry and story-tellers. The same went for medieval Britain: the epic singer or bard, and the singer of tales or scop recited their epic poems to a musical accompaniment aloud from memory and moved from one noble court to another. In Anglo-Saxon Britain the king was striving for enduring fame. This could only be achieved through glorious deeds celebrated in poetry. The best representative Anglo-Saxon poems are Beowulf and The Seafarer. The poetic genre for singing the heroic lives and deeds of the great warrior kings was the epic. Moreover, Anglo-Saxon poetry were didactic because king's glorious deeds, courage, the heroic resistance of the English at the battle of Maldon were examples to follow. These epic poems were characterized by rhetorical figures such as: alliteration: the repetition of the same initial consonant sound in...