The Beatles members Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr went to Tenerife to have a holiday before the “Beatlemania” hysteria started. They just recorded their first album. This was the first holiday without a fuss and before their fame. There was the first bass player of the band Stuart Sutcliffe ‘s girlfriend photographer Astrid Kirchherr at the holiday. What is left from those days was the photos with “slippers” which is not known very much. John Lennon and his manager Brian Epstein preferred Terromolinos which was more popular for “sea and sun” holiday on those days.
The first the Beatles album Please Please Me was released on 22 March 1963 in the UK. The album was not a huge it until it reached 250 thousand copies. The album has at the top of the hit list on 11 May 1963 and stayed there until the end of the year.
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr landed to JFK airport on 07 February 1964 approximately one year after the album was released. They found themselves in the middle of a hurricane created by a crazy crown in New York. It was a Saturday and Beatlemania was there. The band was accepted in the US visit like no other music bands in the history. Such that in John Lennon’s 1966 interview to London Evening Standard newspaper, he would say “we are more popular than Jesus”.
You might be surprised if you don’t know the Beatles history. While today’s celebrities try to protect their fame, the members of the band preferred running away from it. They spend most of their time in the studio to make new records and think on song writing techniques and instruments. The group never toured when the released their most experimental and groundbreaking albums. They did their last grand tour in 1966 after releasing their 7th studio album Revolver. In The Beatles Anthology, Ringo Starr said “I never felt they came to hear our concerts.” “I thought they came to see us. Because when the countdown started, the screams suppressed all other noise.”
The music industry didn’t bother to encourage the bands that can reach the Beatles level. The musicians with the greatest commercial success were those who guaranteed sales rather than the innovative ones. The only exemption might be Radiohead.
