history: Do you know much about the Beatles?
knowledge: The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960.
response: I know they were an English Rock Band from 1960. Do you like them?
history: Do you know much about the Beatles?
I know they were an English Rock Band from 1960. Do you like them?
Not really - I know a lot of people do - they were just not really big when I was a teenager.
knowledge: The Beatles built their reputation playing clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg over a three-year period from 1960, with Stuart Sutcliffe initially serving as bass player.
response: I see. Did you know their original bassist was named Stuart Sutcliffe?
history: Do you know much about the Beatles?
I know they were an English Rock Band from 1960. Do you like them?
Not really - I know a lot of people do - they were just not really big when I was a teenager.
I see. Did you know their original bassist was named Stuart Sutcliffe?
No, I thought they were always the same four guys! Were there any other members that left?
knowledge: The core trio of Lennon, McCartney and Harrison went through a succession of drummers, including Pete Best, before asking Starr to join them in 1962.
response: Yes, they went through a few drummers before Ringo Starr joined in 1962.
history: Do you know much about the Beatles?
I know they were an English Rock Band from 1960. Do you like them?
Not really - I know a lot of people do - they were just not really big when I was a teenager.
I see. Did you know their original bassist was named Stuart Sutcliffe?
No, I thought they were always the same four guys! Were there any other members that left?
Yes, they went through a few drummers before Ringo Starr joined in 1962.
Ringo Starr?  I remember some of the names, but remember McCartney more as a stand-alone singer.
knowledge: Manager Brian Epstein moulded them into a professional act, and producer George Martin guided and developed their recordings, greatly expanding the group's popularity in the United Kingdom after their first hit, ''Love Me Do'', in late 1962.
response: I wouldn't' know, but I know that Brian Epstein, their manager, made them into a professional act.
history: Do you know much about the Beatles?
I know they were an English Rock Band from 1960. Do you like them?
Not really - I know a lot of people do - they were just not really big when I was a teenager.
I see. Did you know their original bassist was named Stuart Sutcliffe?
No, I thought they were always the same four guys! Were there any other members that left?
Yes, they went through a few drummers before Ringo Starr joined in 1962.
Ringo Starr?  I remember some of the names, but remember McCartney more as a stand-alone singer.
I wouldn't' know, but I know that Brian Epstein, their manager, made them into a professional act.
Did they ever win any awards?
knowledge: In 1963 their enormous popularity first emerged as ''Beatlemania''; as the group's music grew in sophistication, led by primary songwriters Lennon and McCartney, the band were integral to pop music's evolution into an art form and to the development of the counterculture of the 1960s.
response: I'm probably not the best system to ask for that information, but I know their huge initial popularity became known as Beatlemania.