Sixties Quiz – Beatles Trivia

A Hard Day's Night is a 1964 British film directed by Richard Lester. The film portrays several days in the lives of the Beatles. Lester is also known for his work on the Superman film series in the 1980s.

A Hard Day's Night stars John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. Wilfrid Brambell plays the role of John McCartney, Paul McCartney's Grandfather. Pattie Boyd, Prudence Bury, and Phil Collins appear in uncredited roles.

Rubber Soul was released in 1965.

Revolver was released in 1966, Sgt Pepper in 1967, and Abbey Road in 1969.

Billy Preston got credits for the Beatles' single Get Back. He is the only musician besides the band members to receive a label performance credit with the Beatles.

The original version of My Bonnie from 1961 credits Tony Sheridan with The Beat Brothers (later known as the Beatles).

On January 30, 1969, the Beatles gave their last public performance on the roof of Apple Records, London. The concert is often referred to as the Rooftop Concert. During 42 minutes, the Beatles played nine takes of five songs before the police forced them to stop. The concert was later used in the film Let it Be.

Please Please Me was the Beatles' first real studio album, released on Parlophone on March 22, 1963.

Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever became the first Beatles single since Please Please Me in 1963 to fail to top the UK charts. Engelbert Humperdinck's Release Me was the single that kept the Beatles from the top spot in 1967.

Sweet Loretta Martin appears in the Beatles song Get Back, released as a single on April 11, 1969, and credited to the Beatles with Billy Preston.

Sweet Loretta Martin thought she was a woman
But she was another man.

Dear Prudence was released as the second track on the Beatles' 1968 album, commonly known as The White Album. Prudence Farrow, the sister of actress Mia Farrow, inspired Lennon to write the song.

The following lyrics are from Strawberry Fields Forever, recorded by the Beatles and released in February 1967 as a double A-side with Penny Lane:

Living is easy with eyes closed
Misunderstanding all you see
It's getting hard to be someone
But it all works out
It doesn't matter much to me.

In March 1966, John Lennon told Maureen Cleave for the London Evening Standard that Christianity was in decline and that the Beatles had become more popular than Jesus Christ. Not until the band was to begin their US Tour in August, five months later, extensive protests broke out in the Southern United States. Radio stations stopped playing Beatles songs, people publicly burned records, and The Beatles canceled press conferences. The US tour in 1966 was the last the band undertook before becoming a studio-only band.