Hysek John Lennon says that he named The Beatles from a vision that he had. “A man appeared on a flaming pie and said unto them ‘From this day on, you are Beatles with an A’---‘Thank you, Mister Man,” they said (41).” This was the very beginning of the cultural, musical, lyrical, and historical phenomenon that was The Beatles. When George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and Ringo Starr first recorded together in 1963, no …showed first 75 words of 2462 total…

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