披头士乐队英语作文

　　The Beatles were an English rock band that formed in Liverpool, in 1960. With John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, they became widely regarded as the greatest and most influential act of the rock era.

　　Rooted in skiffle and 1950s rock and roll, the Beatles later experimented with several genres, ranging from pop ballads to psychedelic rock, often incorporating classicalelements in innovative ways. In the early 1960s, their enormous popularity first emerged as "Beatlemania", but as their songwriting grew in sophistication they came to be perceived as an embodiment of the ideals shared by the era's sociocultural revolutions.

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　　The Beatles亦称为“甲壳虫乐队”、“披头四乐队” ，是英国利物浦的摇滚乐队，成员为约翰·列侬、保罗·麦卡特尼、乔治·哈里森及林戈·斯塔尔，星探及经纪人为布莱恩·艾普斯坦。披头士乐队被公认为英国音乐在1960年代“英国入侵”美国的代表乐队。

　　其音乐风格源自1950年代的摇滚，之后开拓了各种曲风如迷幻摇滚、流行摇滚、古典音乐的融合等，其音乐性之创新深深影响了之后的欧美乐坛发展，尤其是列侬与麦卡特尼这一双子星搭档更是音乐乐史上最佳唱作搭档之一。而且随著作品的社会意识日渐加深，他们的影响力也伸延到六十年代的社会及文化革命方面。

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