FREE ESSAY ON THE BEATLES

THE BEATLES

The Beatles started as a small boy, rock and roll band in high school. Brian Epstein
discovered them in 1964. They stayed as a strong group until 1968, after that they
started going down hill and the group finally broke up in 1970. This band stood out
because their music was different from everyone else. It was clean and fun; the group had
a lot of enthusiasm that influenced many teens. I interviewed Deborah Santos, who was
affected by the break up of the Beatles.
By 1965, the Beatles got so big they didn't know how to handle their fame. They started
using all sorts of drugs as a way to calm themselves down. Several people warned them
about doing these drugs, but they thought all those reasons weren't good enough to quit.
Until they met a man named Maharishi. He led people into meditating and wanted the
Beatles to join in. The band used meditating as a way to stay clean. In August 1967,
Brian Epstein, the Beatles manager, died of a drug overdose. The Beatles used meditating
to get through this bad time. Shortly after that the Beatles realized that Maharishi was
just another human being and not someone with higher power. All of this meditating that
they had done gave them a lot of bad publicity. By the end of 1967, the Beatles was still
without a manager. This caused a lot of arguments. Paul McCartney wanted to use his new
father in law, Lee Eastman, but the others wanted to use Allen Klein, a though American
businessman.
Then in 1968, the band created a label called "Apple". They wanted to use this label as a
way to make it easier for new musicians and filmmakers to get into the business. John
Lennon started becoming more and more influenced by his new wife, Yoko Ono. She wanted
him to take more control over the label and Paul McCartney started feeling left out. This
is what is believed that finally pushed Paul to make the announcement that he was leaving
the band in 1970. Even though Paul was the first to make the announcement that he was
leaving the group, he was actually the last one that wanted to.
The group had such a big affect on the world. Almost every teenage girl had at least one
poster of the Beatles in their room. The group did a lot of charity, which influenced
many people to do the same. John Lennon got involve with the civil rights demonstrators
and led a lot of young people to do the same. When the band broke up many teens locked
themselves in their room listening to the records over and over again, hoping that when
they left their room the group would be back together. But that never happened. No one
ever thought that another group would come around like the Beatles, with such enthusiasm
and great music. They were right. 
On December 2, I interviewed a woman named Deborah Santos, who was a big fan of the
Beatles. She said, " I liked the Beatles because they were a new kind of music that my
parents didn't get mad about me listening to and when we went to parties no one fought
about the music because everyone wanted to hear the Beatles.
Why do you think the break up was such a big deal? "Probably because they were almost
everyone's favorite group, so who were they going obsess about now that the group broke
up."
What was your reaction when you first heard the group broke up? "Well I got mad at Paul
McCartney because he was the first one to do it. Everyone was, they didn't understand why
the group would break up when they were so big and had so many fans. I just kept
listening to their records until I finally accepted that it was over."
The Beatles grew so big and so fast that their fame overwhelmed them. They tried to
handle certain situations the wrong way, which was one of the problems that led to the
break up. Then other people started getting involved that shouldn't have and this created
even more tension. No one understood what the group was going through and that the break
up was the best thing they could have done for themselves. Even though Deborah Santos was
upset about the break up the Beatles will always be one of her favorite rock and roll
bands.
Bibliography
1. Giuliano, Geoffrey. The lost Beatles Interviews. New York:Penguin Books U.S.A. Inc.
1994
2. Jones, Jack. Let Me Take You Down. New York: International and Pan-American
1992