Facts

Formed: Liverpool, England, 1957

Members: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr

First single: Love Me Do (October 1962)

Album discography: Please Please Me (March 1963); With The Beatles (November 1963); A Hard Day's Night (June 1964); Beatles For Sale (December 1964); Help! (August 1965); Rubber Soul (December 1965); Revolver (August 1966); Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (May 1967); Magical Mystery Tour (US, November 1967); The Beatles (aka The White Album, November 1968); Yellow Submarine (January 1969); Abbey Road (September 1969); Let It Be (May 1970).

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