The Beatles have been one of the biggest names in music for 60 years.
n one week in 1964 they held all five spots at the top of the US Billboard 100, an achievement no performers have got close to since. By 1966 the mania they inspired whenever they played live had become so wild and dangerous they had to stop touring.
The Fab Four would go on to sell 600 million albums worldwide, with 20 No1 US singles, and be universally regarded, by some distance, as the greatest pop group of all time. McCartney would form Wings, one of the biggest-selling bands of the 1970s, and launch a long solo career which led to him back to No1 just before the pandemic with his album McCartney III.
