The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. Their best-known lineup, consisting of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, became the greatest and most influential act of the rock era, introducing more innovations into popular music than any other rock band of the 20th century.
==Personnel==
===Main===
*John Lennon – vocals, rhythm guitar, keyboards
*Paul McCartney – vocals, bass guitar, keyboards
*George Harrison – lead guitar, keyboards, vocals
*Ringo Starr – drums, percussion, vocals
===Other notable members===
*Pete Best – drums, vocals
*Stuart Sutcliffe – bass, vocals
*Chas Newby – bass
*Norman Chpaman – drums
*Tommy Moore – drums
*Jimmie Nicol – drums (touring only)
==Involvement with Disney==
Although they never acted in Disney movies, the appearances, numbers, hairstyles, looks, accents, speech, and occupations of Buzzie, Flaps, Ziggy, and Dizzy from The Jungle Book, and a group of singing bug characters called "The Bugs" from the Timon & Pumbaa episode "Rocky Mountain Lie" were based on them.
In 2009, Disney and announced a CGI motion capture remake of the Beatles' 1968 animated film Yellow Submarine, to be directed by Robert Zemeckis through his studio, ImageMovers Digital. The film, set to feature the voice talents of as Lennon, Peter Serafinowicz as McCartney, Cary Elwes as Harrison, and as Starr, was canceled in 2011, following the closure of ImageMovers Digital and the box office failures of ImageMovers' A Christmas Carol and Mars Needs Moms. Motion capture performance of the Beatles was to be performed by California-based tribute band , which regularly performed at Disneyland's Tomorrowland Terrace in the early 2000s.
Some of the former Beatles were originally slated as guests for different episodes of The Muppet Show, but due to budget and schedule conflicts, these episodes were never produced. McCartney's band, Wings, was considered for an episode. Jerry Nelson said in a 1999 interview, "They tried their best to get the Beatles, Paul was willing to do it, but we had to hire the whole band… When he was with Wings. It was too big time. We just didn't have the money. I think George would have done it, but they kept trying to negotiate with Paul... Ringo probably would have too. If they had asked me, I would have said, 'Hey! Get them! Don't dicker... Get the ones who are ready to commit.'"
Sir Paul McCartney appeared on stage with Kermit the Frog to celebrate Golden Jubilee for Queen Elizabeth II.
Ringo Starr appeared in a February 2008 Disney Xtreme Digital video with Kermit the Frog and Pepe the King Prawn during the Muppets' coverage of the Grammy Awards ceremony.
McCartney has a role as Uncle Jack in the 2017 film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.Paul McCartney Joins Johnny Depp & Crew For 'Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales'
Disney purchased the distribution rights to the docuseries The Beatles: Get Back which aired on Disney+ November 25-27, 2021.
On November 2, 2023, the McCartney and Starr released the first new Beatles track in over two decades using audio from old recordings featuring Harrison and Lennon titled "Now and Then". This was accompanied by the release of a documentary Now and Then - The Last Beatles Song and an accompanying music video the next day on Disney+.
On May 8, 2024, The Beatles: Let It Be was released on Disney+. The documentary was actually released May 20, 1970, but never got an official re-release until then, due to the controversy surrounding it.
Another Beatles documentary titled Beatles '64 was released on November 29, 2024.
==References in Disney media==
In the House of Mouse episode "Ladies' Night", their names were mentioned by Minnie, Daisy, and Clarabelle during the "Mortimer Mouse" song when insulting Mortimer.
In the Marsupilami episode; "Royal Foil", Marsupilami mentioned Richard Starkey (Ringo's birth name). Additionally, the characters of Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom have speech patterns modeled after the Beatles.
The Schoolhouse Rock! song: "A Noun Is A Person, Place Or Thing" references the band.
On Disney's Sing-Along Songs: Under the Sea, the song "At the Codfish Ball" mentions "Water beetles twist and shout" as the band's reference, as well as the song "Twist and Shout".
The band's song "Here Comes the Sun" is played in the 1998 remake The Parent Trap, although it is a cover version by Bob Khaleel. However, in the same scene where the song is played, the famous cover of the album Abbey Road was recreated by Hallie Parker and Elizabeth James crossing the same zebra crossing shown on the cover.
The Buzz on Maggie episode "Spelling Bees", features a parody of the Beatles in the form of the titular band of bees, whom Maggie Pesky is a fan of and tries to audition to become a new member of the band.
The Phineas and Ferb episode "The Baljeatles" features numerous Beatles references.
Rocket Raccoon is inspired by the Beatles song and character "Rocky Raccoon".
In the version of Captain America: The Winter Soldier made for audiences in the United Kingdom, the Beatles are on Captain America's list of things he wants to catch up to.
An episode of Adventures in Wonderland is named I Am the Walrus, after the Beatles song.
A cover version of "Drive My Car", sung by Jorge Blanco, was played in Cars 3.
In the intro for 101 Dalmatian Street, feet resembling the Beatles are seen crossing the street, recreating the cover for Abbey Road.
In Kiff, the episode "The Five Pigeons of the Acapellapocalypse" has a scene where the titular character is searching through old records and finds one for "The Beetles", depicting four anthropomorphic beets that resemble the four members.
Their song "Magical Mystery Tour" was featured in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
In Amphibia, the episode "Battle of the Bands" in the scene where Sasha Waybright sees Anne's concept art for the group bug outfits, Marcy Wu the drummer of Sasha and The Sharps, is doing the peace sign, similar to Ringo Starr the drummer of the Beatles, who also does the peace sign.
Their song "Come Together", is the tagline of Deadpool & Wolverine.
==Songs==
*"I'm Looking Through You"
**The Muppet Show episode 119
*"In My Life"
**The Muppet Show episode 121
*"She Loves You"
**The Muppet Show episode 407
*"While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
**The Muppet Show episode 419
*"With a Little Help from My Friends"
**The Muppet Show episode 419
*"Blackbird"
**The Muppet Show episode 503
*"Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"
**The Muppet Show episode 517
**Muppets on Location: Days of Swine and Roses
*"Good Day Sunshine"
**The Muppet Show episode 522
*"Octopus's Garden"
**Songs from The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea & More!
*"All Together Now"
**Kermit Unpigged
*"Here Comes the Sun"
**The Parent Trap (1998; covered by Bob Khaleel)
*"Drive My Car"
**Cars 3 (covered by Jorge Blanco)
*"Come Together"
**Cruella (covered by Ike and Tina Turner)
*"Magical Mystery Tour"
**Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
==Trivia==
*Their band name has had numerous origins. The most famous one is that it was inspired by another group called The Crickets while simultaneously being a pun on "beat", as in a drumbeat.
*During The Jungle Book production, the development staff had thought of the famous band to voice the four vultures: Buzzie, Flaps, Ziggy, and Dizzy. But because of an extra work planning, John Lennon declined the offer.
*John Lennon signed the paperwork that officially dissolved the Beatles at Disney's Polynesian Village Resort on December 29, 1974.
*Sgt. Floyd Pepper's name and usual attire references the Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
*Janice and Zoot referenced the group in a Muppet Show at the Dance segment:
::Zoot: Say, do you wanna come to my place and listen to the beetles?
::Janice: Oh, I love their music!
::Zoot: Not music, I mean real beetles!
*In episode 106 of Muppets Tonight, Johnny Fiama shows off his Tony Bennett album Sergeant Tony's Lonely Hearts Club Gang, which he claims came out a week before the album with "those other guys" (referring to the Beatles' album, ).
*In episode 201, Rizzo jokes that the only song that can possibly come up with in the commissary is "I Wanna Hold Your Ham", referencing the Beatles' song "".
*A poster that came with copies of Dinosaurs: Big Songs had a photo of the four main family members crossing a street in Pangaea, parodying the cover of .
*The Beatles are referred to in the Schoolhouse Rock! song "A Noun is a Person, Place or Thing".
*The Muppet Show band is dressed as the Beatles from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in a 1977 puzzle.
*In Muppet King Arthur #2, Baskerville sings "", which wins the heart of Merlin, but fails to phase Arthur and Morgana Le Fay, who have no idea what a car is.
*The title of The Green Album is a reference to the Beatles' record, The White Album.
*The 1997 Muppet calendar called "With the Mupples" is a parody of album cover.
*In The Muppet Show episode 517, Statler introduces "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da", noting how they had hoped to have the Beatles themselves perform it but had not heard back from any of them, when Waldorf rushes on stage with breaking news:
::Waldorf: Wait a second! I just talked to Ringo.
::Statler: Oh, great! What did he say?
::Waldorf: No.
*They are parodied as "The Beagles" in Zootopia, as shown on Judy Hopps' music player.
==Gallery==
Parody.mupples.jpg|"With the Mupples" - Calendar parody of With the Beatles album cover
George harrison kermit.jpg|George Harrison and a Fisher Price Kermit doll; photo allegedly taken at the Saturday Night Live studios
Tshirt-mayhemstars.jpg|Yellow Submarine
Tshirt-muppets-abbeyroad.jpg|Abbey Road
Mup beatles reolver spoof t-shirt.jpg|Revolver
Johnny-sergeanttony.jpg
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Dinosaurs Big Songs poster Abbey Road.jpg|Dinosaurs: Big Songs
Junglebook-disneyscreencaps com-8029.jpg|Buzzie, Flaps, Ziggy, and Dizzy
Timon & Pumbaa Rocky Mountain Lie Beetles 1.jpg|Beatles-inspired beetle bugs from the Timon & Pumbaa episode "Rocky Mountain Lie"
Timon & Pumbaa Rocky Mountain Lie Beetles 2.jpg|"I've got one."
Timon & Pumbaa Rocky Mountain Lie Beetles 3.jpg|"How about 'The Bugs'?"
The Beatles cameo appearance.jpg|The Beatles' cameo in Your Friend the Rat
The Beatles in Schoolhouse Rock!.png|The Beatles in Schoolhouse Rock!: "A Noun is a Person, Place or Thing"
Reference to the Beatles in the intro of 101 Dalmatian Street.png|Reference to the Beatles in the intro of 101 Dalmatian Street
Paul McCartney with Pluto and Robin Hood.jpeg|Paul McCartney with Pluto and Robin Hood
The Beatles Let It Be - The Beatles 2.jpg|The Beatles in The Beatles: Let It Be
The Beatles Let It Be - The Beatles.jpg
The Beatles Let It Be - George Harrison.jpg
The Beatles Let It Be - John Lennon.jpg
The Beatles Let It Be - On Set.jpg
The Beatles Let It Be - Ringo Starr.jpg
The Beatles Let It Be - Paul McCartney.jpg
The Beatles Let It Be - Collage.jpg
==References==
==External links==
*The Beatles at The Beatles Wiki 
*The Beatles at Wikipedia
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