The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, widely regarded as the most influential band in the history of popular music.
The band's four members, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, rose to fame in the early 1960s amid a wave of popularity known as 'Beatlemania,' marked by intense fan enthusiasm across Britain and, from 1964, the United States.
The Beatles' songwriting, primarily led by the Lennon-McCartney partnership, evolved dramatically over the course of the 1960s, from straightforward pop songs to more experimental and studio-driven work on albums such as Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
The band broke up in 1970 amid personal and business tensions, but their catalog of music remains enormously influential and commercially successful, and they are widely credited with transforming the artistic possibilities of popular music.