The Beatles were a highly successful and popular British rock band from Liverpool, England. They are widely regarded as the most influential rock band in history and are known world-wide. The Beatles continue to be a major influence on music well into the 21st century, having sold over a billion records overall. The Beatles paved the way for new musical styles and influenced cultural revolutions in the 1960s and 1970s. The members of the most famous line-up of The Beatles were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

The Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 2007. He mentored The Beatles in Transcendental Meditation in 1967.

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• ...that Mark David Chapman, the man who killed John Lennon outside The Dakota (pictured), was obsessed with the J.D.Salinger novel, "The Catcher in the Rye?"
• ...that Beatlemania! With the Beatles was The Beatles' first album released in Canada?
• ...that Germán Valdés was removed from the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band because he requested that Ringo Starr replace him with a Mexican pottery tree of life.

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At 8:22, the musique concrète "Revolution 9", from the album The Beatles, is the longest song The Beatles ever released (the longest recorded being the unreleased "Carnival of Light"), and was originally intended as an extended coda to "Revolution 1", another song from the same album. When played backwards, the phrase "turn me on, dead man" can supposedly be heard repeatedly, and supposedly adds weight to the Paul is dead conspiracy.

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