Outline of the Beatles

Overview of and topical guide to the Beatles

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Wikipedia articles available about the Beatles from their formation through their breakup; it does not include information about members' solo careers.

Rock
pop
beat
psychedelia

Years active1960–1970Labels

Parlophone
Capitol
Apple

SpinoffsPlastic Ono BandSpinoff ofThe QuarrymenPast members

John Lennon
Paul McCartney
George Harrison
Ringo Starr
(see Personnel section for others)

Websitethebeatles.com

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. They are regarded as the most influential band of all time^[1] and were integral to the development of 1960s counterculture and the recognition of popular music as an art form.^[2] Rooted in skiffle, beat and 1950s rock 'n' roll, their sound incorporated elements of classical music and traditional pop in innovative ways. The band also explored music styles ranging from folk and Indian music to psychedelia and hard rock. As pioneers in recording, songwriting and artistic presentation, the Beatles revolutionized many aspects of the music industry and were often publicized as leaders of the era's youth and sociocultural movements.^[3]

Overview main articles

History

Background

Performances

Production, management, distribution

Media

Albums

Please Please Me
With the Beatles
A Hard Day's Night (album)
Beatles for Sale
Help!
Rubber Soul
Revolver (Beatles album)
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beatles (album)
Abbey Road
Yellow Submarine (album)
Let It Be (Beatles album)

Non-British releases

Hey Jude (Beatles album)
Yesterday and Today
Something New (Beatles album)
Introducing... The Beatles
Beatles '65
Beatles VI
Meet the Beatles!
The Beatles' Second Album
Twist and Shout (album)
The Beatles' Story
The Beatles' Long Tall Sally
Magical Mystery Tour (LP in the United States)

EPs

4 by the Beatles
All My Loving (EP)
The Beatles (No. 1)
Beatles for Sale (EP)
Beatles for Sale No. 2
The Beatles' Hits
The Beatles' Million Sellers
Extracts from the Album A Hard Day's Night
Extracts from the Film A Hard Day's Night
Four by the Beatles
Long Tall Sally (EP)
Magical Mystery Tour (Double EP in the United Kingdom)
My Bonnie
Nowhere Man (EP)
Souvenir of Their Visit to America
Twist and Shout (EP)
Yesterday (Beatles EP)

Soundtracks

A Hard Day's Night (album)
Help!
Magical Mystery Tour
Yellow Submarine (album)
Yellow Submarine Songtrack
Let It Be (Beatles album)
Across the Universe (soundtrack)
Love (Beatles album)

Singles

Individual songs

12-Bar Original
Across the Universe
Act Naturally
Ain't She Sweet
All for Love (Beatles song)
All I've Got to Do
All My Loving
All Things Must Pass (song)
All Together Now (Beatles song)
All You Need Is Love
And I Love Her
And Your Bird Can Sing
Anna (Go to Him)
Another Girl
Any Time at All
Ask Me Why
Baby It's You
Baby, You're a Rich Man
Baby's in Black
Back in the U.S.S.R.
Bad Boy (Larry Williams song)
Bad to Me
The Ballad of John and Yoko
Be-Bop-a-Lula
The Beatles' Movie Medley
Beautiful Dreamer
Because (Beatles song)
Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
Bésame Mucho
Birthday (Beatles song)
Blackbird (Beatles song)
Blue Jay Way
Boys (The Shirelles song)
Can You Take Me Back
Can't Buy Me Love
Carnival of Light
Carol (Chuck Berry song)
Carry That Weight
Cayenne (instrumental)
Chains (Cookies song)
Christmas Time (Is Here Again)
Clarabella (song)
Come and Get It (Badfinger song)
Come Together
Commonwealth (song)
The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill
Cry Baby Cry
Crying, Waiting, Hoping
A Day in the Life
Day Tripper
Dear Prudence
Devil in His Heart
Dig a Pony
Dig It (Beatles song)
Dizzy, Miss Lizzy
Do You Want to Know a Secret
Doctor Robert
Don't Bother Me
Don't Ever Change (song)
Don't Let Me Down (Beatles song)
Don't Pass Me By
Drive My Car (song)
Eight Days a Week
Eleanor Rigby
The End (Beatles song)
Etcetera (song)
Every Little Thing (Beatles song)
Everybody Had a Hard Year
Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey
Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby
Fixing a Hole
Flying (Beatles instrumental)
The Fool on the Hill
Fools like Me
For No One
For You Blue
Free as a Bird
From Me to You
Get Back
Getting Better
Girl (Beatles song)
Glass Onion (song)
Golden Slumbers
Good Day Sunshine
Good Morning Good Morning
Good Night (Beatles song)
Got to Get You into My Life
Hallelujah I Love Her So
Happiness Is a Warm Gun
A Hard Day's Night (song)
Hello Little Girl
Hello, Goodbye
Help! (song)
Helter Skelter (song)
Her Majesty (song)
Here Comes the Sun
Here, There and Everywhere
Hey Bulldog
Hey Jude
Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!
Hippy Hippy Shake
Hiroshima Sky is Always Blue
Hold Me Tight
Honey Don't
Honey Pie
How Do You Do It?
I Am the Walrus
I Call Your Name
I Don't Want to Spoil the Party
I Feel Fine
I Forgot to Remember to Forget
I Got a Woman
I Got to Find My Baby
I Just Don't Understand
I Me Mine
I Need You (Beatles song)
I Saw Her Standing There
I Should Have Known Better
I Wanna Be Your Man
I Want to Hold Your Hand
I Want to Tell You
I Want You (She's So Heavy)
I Will
I'll Be Back (song)
I'll Be on My Way
I'll Cry Instead
I'll Follow the Sun
I'll Get You
I'm a Loser
I'm Down
I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Cry (Over You)
I'm Happy Just to Dance with You
I'm Looking Through You
I'm Only Sleeping
I'm So Tired
I've Got a Feeling
I've Just Seen a Face
If I Fell
If I Needed Someone
If You've Got Trouble
In My Life
The Inner Light (song)
It Won't Be Long
It's All Too Much
It's Only Love
Johnny B. Goode
Julia (Beatles song)
Junk (song)
Kansas City (Leiber and Stoller song)
Keep Your Hands off My Baby
Komm, gib mir deine Hand / Sie liebt dich
Lady Madonna
Leave My Kitten Alone
Lend Me Your Comb
Let It Be (song)
Like Dreamers Do
Little Child
Lonesome Tears in My Eyes
The Long and Winding Road
The Long One
Long Tall Sally
Long, Long, Long
Love Me Do
Love of the Loved
Love You To
Lovely Rita
Lucille (Little Richard song)
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
Madman (song)
Maggie May (folk song)
Magical Mystery Tour (song)
Martha My Dear
Matchbox (song)
Maxwell's Silver Hammer
Mean Mr. Mustard
Memphis, Tennessee (song)
Michelle (song)
Midnight Special (song)
Misery (Beatles song)
Mr. Moonlight (song)
Money (That's What I Want)
Moonlight Bay
Mother Nature's Son
My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean
The Night Before (song)
No Reply (song)
Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
Not a Second Time
Not Guilty (song)
Nothin' Shakin' (But the Leaves on the Trees)
Now and Then (Beatles song)
Nowhere Man (song)
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
Octopus's Garden
Oh! Darling
Old Brown Shoe
One After 909
One and One Is Two
Only a Northern Song
Ooh! My Soul
P.S. I Love You (Beatles song)
The Palace of the King of the Birds
Paperback Writer
Los Paranoias
Peace of Mind/The Candle Burns
Penny Lane
Piggies
Please Mr. Postman
Please Please Me (song)
Polythene Pam
Rain (Beatles song)
Real Love (Beatles song)
Revolution (Beatles song)
Revolution 9
Rock and Roll Music (song)
Rocky Raccoon
Roll Over Beethoven
Run for Your Life (Beatles song)
Save the Last Dance for Me
Savoy Truffle
Searchin'
September in the Rain
Sexy Sadie
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (song)
She Came In Through the Bathroom Window
She Loves You
She Said She Said
She's a Woman
She's Leaving Home
The Sheik of Araby
Sheila (Tommy Roe song)
A Shot of Rhythm and Blues
Slow Down (Larry Williams song)
Soldier of Love (Lay Down Your Arms)
Some Other Guy
Something (Beatles song)
Song of Love (song)
Sour Milk Sea
Step Inside Love
Strawberry Fields Forever
Sun King (song)
Sure to Fall (in Love with You)
Suzy Parker (Beatles Song)
Sweet Little Sixteen
Take Good Care of My Baby
A Taste of Honey (song)
Taxman
Teddy Boy (song)
Tell Me What You See
Tell Me Why (Beatles song)
Thank You Girl
That Means a Lot
That's All Right
There's a Place
Things We Said Today
Think for Yourself
Thinking of Linking
This Boy
Three Cool Cats
Ticket to Ride (song)
Till There Was You
To Know Him Is to Love Him
Tomorrow Never Knows
Too Much Monkey Business
Twist and Shout
Two of Us (Beatles song)
Wait (Beatles song)
Watching Rainbows
We Can Work It Out
What Goes On (Beatles song)
What You're Doing
What's the New Mary Jane
When I Get Home
When I'm Sixty-Four
Where Have You Been (All My Life)
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Why Don't We Do It in the Road?
Wild Honey Pie
With a Little Help from My Friends
Within You Without You
The Word (song)
Words of Love
A World Without Love
Yellow Submarine (song)
Yer Blues
Yes It Is
Yesterday (song)
You Can't Do That
You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)
You Know What to Do
You Like Me Too Much
You Never Give Me Your Money
You Won't See Me
You'll Be Mine (Beatles song)
You're Going to Lose That Girl
You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
You've Really Got a Hold on Me
Young Blood (The Coasters song)
Your Mother Should Know

Anthology

Cayenne (instrumental)
Free as a Bird
12-Bar Original
Hello Little Girl
If You've Got Trouble
In Spite of All the Danger
Like Dreamers Do
Not Guilty (song)
Now and Then (John Lennon song)
Real Love (Beatles song)
That Means a Lot
You Know What to Do
You'll Be Mine (Beatles song)

Compilations

Greatest hits

1 (Beatles album)
20 Greatest Hits (Beatles album)
1962–1966 ("Red Album")
1967–1970 ("Blue Album")
Greatest Hits Volume 1 (Beatles album)
Greatest Hits Volume 2 (Beatles album)
The Number Ones

Mono versions

Reissues

Revolver: Special Edition
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band: 50th Anniversary Edition
Let It Be: Special Edition
Abbey Road: 50th Anniversary Edition
The Beatles: 50th Anniversary Edition
Let It Be... Naked

Sessions

Sessions (Beatles album)
Live at the BBC (Beatles album)
On Air – Live at the BBC Volume 2

Live material

The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl
The Beatles Bootleg Recordings 1963
The Beatles Tapes from the David Wigg Interviews
The Beatles' rooftop concert
First Live Recordings
Live at the BBC (Beatles album)
Live! at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962
On Air – Live at the BBC Volume 2
The Beatles vs. the Third Reich

Other

The Beatles & Frank Ifield on Stage
The Beatles Ballads
The Beatles Collection
The Beatles in Italy
The Beatles vs the Four Seasons
The Beatles: The Collection
Compilation Deluxe
The Essential Beatles
Jolly What!
Love Songs (Beatles album)
Only The Beatles...
Past Masters
Por Siempre Beatles
Rarities (Beatles compilations)
Reel Music
Rock 'n' Roll Music (album)
Tomorrow Never Knows (Beatles album)
Los Beatles (album)
Songs, Pictures and Stories of the Fabulous Beatles

Album covers

Bob Gibson (artist) (Magical Mystery Tour cover art)
Klaus Voormann (Revolver cover art)
List of images on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Live performances

Films

This section is for films by the Beatles, for films and series about the Beatles, see #Films and series about the Beatles

A Hard Day's Night (film)
Help! (film)
Let It Be (1970 film)
Magical Mystery Tour (film)
The Beatles: Get Back – The Rooftop Concert
Yellow Submarine (film)
The Beatles at Shea Stadium
The Beatles Anthology (TV series)

Artists associated with the Beatles

Musical styles

Locations

Cultural impacts

Books

The Beatles Book
Octopus's Garden (book)
The Beatles Anthology (book)

Films and series about the Beatles

The Beatles (TV series)
The Beatles Story
Birth of the Beatles
All Together Now (2008 film)
Around the Beatles
The Beatles and India
The Beatles Anthology (TV series)
The Beatles at Shea Stadium
Beatles Stories
The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week
The Beatles: Get Back
Birth of the Beatles
The Compleat Beatles
I Met the Walrus
If These Walls Could Sing
It Was Twenty Years Ago Today (film)
Lennon or McCartney
The Love We Make
The Music of Lennon & McCartney
Produced by George Martin
A Salute to the Beatles: Once upon a Time
The Beatles Anthology (TV series)

Beatlemania and fandom

Beatlemania
Egri Road Beatles Múzeum
The Fest for Beatles Fans
Presence (play)
Seltaeb
Fifth Beatle
Global Beatles Day
Beatles Day
Helter Skelter (scenario)
Beatle haircut
Plastic soul
List of songs in The Beatles: Rock Band
Apple scruffs
Beatle boot
Beatlesque

Individuals

Monuments and markers

Beatles Square (Ulaanbaatar)
Beatles-Platz
Eleanor Rigby (statue)
The Beatles Monument (Almaty)
Yellow Submarine (sculpture)

Music and musicals about the Beatles

A Letter to the Beatles
A Walk Down Abbey Road
Abbey Road on the River
Across the Universe (message)
All for the Beatles
Beatlemania (musical)
Beatles Forever
Bigger Than the Beatles
Black Beatles
Early 1970
Glass Onion (song)
God (John Lennon song)
Hello From Earth
How Do You Sleep? (John Lennon song)
I'm the Greatest
John, Paul, George, Ringo ... and Bert
Let It Be (musical)
List of cover versions of Beatles songs
Living in the Material World (song)
Love (Cirque du Soleil)
Love, Love, Love (Glee)
Not Guilty (song)
Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles
Randy Scouse Git
Run of the Mill (George Harrison song)
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band on the Road
Stars on 45 (song)
Sue Me, Sue You Blues
The Beatles: Rock Band
The Cast of Beatlemania
The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the Beatles
Tina in the Sky with Diamonds
Tributes to the Beatles
Two of Us (2000 film)
Wah-Wah (song)
We Love You Beatles
When We Was Fab

Lists

List of awards and nominations received by the Beatles
List of cover versions of Beatles songs
List of songs in The Beatles: Rock Band
List of images on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beatles' recording sessions
List of the Beatles' live performances
Collaborations between ex-Beatles
The Beatles discography
List of people who performed on Beatles recordings
List of the Beatles' instruments
List of songs recorded by the Beatles
List of songs covered by the Beatles
The Beatles timeline

Miscellaneous

References

Notes

Citations

^ Hasted 2017, p. 425.
^ Frontani 2007, p. 125.
^ Frontani 2007, p. 157.

Bibliography

Hasted, Nick (2017). You Really Got Me: The Story of The Kinks. Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-1-7855-8851-8.
Frontani, Michael R. (2007). The Beatles: Image and the Media. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-57806-965-1. Archived from the original on 22 January 2023. Retrieved 31 March 2014.