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1957-1963: Before Beatlemania
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Skiffle, Day, identity, 1963, church, Donegan, American, British, Richard, Casbah, Hamburg, Pete, sophisticated, softer, covers, Brown, Elvis
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the pre-1964                pop scene:
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highly indebted to                  pop music
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some British music historians will argue that pre-1963 UK pop music was more                            that US pop music of that time
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but when you talk to the people in the business, you learn that the product that the UK industry could sell the most of what American popular music
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UK songs that sold were mostly either              of songs from the US or imitations of that kind of music
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one of the important contributions of the Beatles in          was to help to change this picture
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Beatles were at the forefront of the beat movement which gave UK pop music its own                 
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           never came to the UK but his movies were played in the UK
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               Movement
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very big in 1955-1959
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a guy at the center of the Skiffle movement was Lonnie               
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started out doing a Skiffle bit, folk songs but upbeat, very easy to play
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people became Lonnie Donegan fans, became one of "UKs answer to Elvis Presley"
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even went to #8 in the U.S.
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when Elvis hit, there were many Elvis impersonators in the UK
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Cliff               
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1959 Living Doll
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had a fantastic series of hits
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was as big as big could be
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Beatles didn't try to sell to the US because they thought if Cliff Richard couldn't make it there, they wouldn't be able to either
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Tommy Steele
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1956 Rock with the Caveman
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1960-1963
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the hard, driving Chuck Berry style was out, and a              guitar style was in
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Billy Fury
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1961 Halfway to Paradise
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Larry Parnes
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had a number of lead singers that were Elvis-like, gave them stage names
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Tommy Steele
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Marty Wilde
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Billy Fury
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Vince Eager
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Johnny Gentle
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Duffy Power
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Lance Fortune
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Joe Brown (Larry Parnes wanted to call him Elmer Twitch)
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Beatles did a tour of Scotland as a backing band for Johnny Gentle
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early Beatles
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1957: John (17), Paul (15) and George (14)
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did Skiffle, Elvis, pop
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played at the Jacaranda Club
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             Coffee Club
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venue in West Derby, Liverpool, started by Mona Best in 1959 in the cellar of the family home
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her son          Best was the drummer for awhile
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The Quarrymen: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ken           , went to the club to arrange their first booking
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earliest recording
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1958: "That'll Be the       "
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Harold Phillips
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went to                to explore possibilities for the Royal Caribbean Steel Band
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one of the reasons the Beatles ended up in Hamburg
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history
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1957: Paul meets John at a local              festival and joins The Quarry Men
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1958: George joins
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1960: Stu Sutcliffe joins
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1960: Pete Best joins
Organizing the Biography
1957-1963: Before Beatlemania
Hamburg and Liverpool