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ABOUT THE BEATLES John Winston Lennon
Born 9 October 1940 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England
Died 8 December 1980 in New York City, USA (was killed)
Parents: Julia (Stanley) Lennon, Fred Lennon
Relationships: Cynthia Powell from 23 August 1962, in 1968 divorced; Yoko Ono (from 20 March 1969)
Children: John Charles Julian Lennon, Sean Taro Ono Lennon, Kyoko Cox - stepdaughter
Siblings: Ingrid Pedersen, aka, Victoria Elizabeth Lennon - half sister, Julia - half sister, Jacqui - half sister
James Paul McCartney
Born 18 June 1942 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England
Parents: Mary Patricia (Mohin) McCartney, James McCartney
Relationships: Linda (Eastman) McCartney (was his wife from 12 March 1969) died of cancer on 17 April 1998; Heather
Children: Heather - stepdaughter, Mary, Stella, James
Siblings: Michael, Ruth
George Harrison
Born 24 February 1943 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England
Died 29 November 2001 of cancer
Parents: Louise Harrison, Harold Harrison
Relationships: Patti Boyd from 21 January 1966 to 1977; Olivia (Arias) Harrison (from 1978)
Children: Dhani Harrison
Siblings: Harry Harrison, Pete Harrison, Louise Harrison(?)
Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey Jr.)
Born 7 July 1940 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England
Parents: Elsie Gleave, Richard Starkey, Sr.
Relationships: Maureen Cox from 11 February 1965, in 1975 divorced; Barbara Bach (from 27 April 1981)
Children: Zak, Jason, Lee - daugter
Starr has a granddaughter
Brian Samuel Epstein
Born 19 September 1934 in Liverpool, England Died 27 August 1967 in London, England
Mother: Malka Epstein , Father: Harry Epstein
Brian was Beatles' manager from 24 January 1962.
After the success of the Beatles, Brian also managed other acts, including Gerry and the Pacemakers, Billy J. Kramer, Cilla Black, the Fourmost, the Big Three, the Remo Four and Tommy Quickly
George Martin
Born 3 January 1926 in London, England
George head of A&R at Parlophone and the producer of all of the Beatles records except for Let It Be. He also was arranger & pianist at the some Beatles albums. Beatles contracted with George Martin on June 26, 1962.
George Martin wrote the orchestral scores for the Beatles movies A Hard Days Night, Help! and Yellow Submarine, and also The Family Way and Live and Let Die which Paul contributed songs to. He also produced the music for Robert Stigwood's movie Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Stu Sutcliffe
Born 23 June 1940 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Died 10 April 1962 in Hamburg, Germany from a brain hemmorrhage.
Stu was bass guitarist from late 1959 until the Beatles second Hamburg trip in 1961.
Stu's girlfriend Astrid changed his clothes and gave him a new, distinctive hair style, which all the Beatles later adopted.
Pete Best
Born 24 November 1941 in Madras, India.
Pete was Beatles drummer from August 1960 during next two years.
Pete's mother, Mona Best, ran the Casbah Club, a cellar club in Hayman's Green, where the Beatles had been playing in 1959, 1960.
Pete played on "My Bonnie" and the other tracks recorded with Tony Sheridan for Bert Kaempfert in Germany.
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