From Liverpool, England and held in very high regard for both their artistic achievements and their considerable
commercial success, and have amassed an enormous worldwide fanbase that continues to exist to this day.
Comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, the group shattered many sales
records and charted more than fifty top 40 hit singles. They were the first British pop act to achieve major and
ongoing success in the United States, scoring twenty #1 hits in the USA alone, becoming the biggest musical act
of the twentieth century. EMI estimated in 1985 that the band had sold over a billion records worldwide. Their
ballad "Yesterday" — written and sung by Paul McCartney (though officially credited as written by Lennon-
McCartney) — is the most-covered song in the history of recorded music(about 2500 versions of it exist).
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