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The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band, formed in Liverpool in 1960. With members John LennonPaul McCartneyGeorge Harrison and Ringo Starr, they became widely regarded as the foremost and most influential act of the rock era. Rooted in skifflebeat, and 1950s rock and roll, the Beatles later experimented with several genres, ranging from pop ballads and Indian music to psychedelia and hard rock, often incorporating classical elements in innovative ways. In the early 1960s, their enormous popularity first emerged as "Beatlemania", but as the group's music grew in sophistication, led by primary songwriters Lennon and McCartney, they came to be perceived as an embodiment of the ideals shared by the counterculture of the 1960s.

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