Premise: The break-up of the Beatles was a cumulative process throughout 1968 to 1970 , marked by rumours of a split and ambiguous comments by the Beatles themselves regarding the future of the group . John Winston Ono Lennon , ( born John Winston Lennon ; 9 October 19408 December 1980 ) was an English guitarist , singer , and songwriter who co-founded the Beatles , the most commercially successful and musically influential band in the history of popular music . Randolph Peter `` Pete '' Best ( born Randolph Peter Scanland , 24 November 1941 ) is an English musician , principally known as an original member and first drummer of the Beatles , from 1960 to 1962 . The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960 . In 1963 their enormous popularity first emerged as `` Beatlemania '' , and as the group 's music grew in sophistication in subsequent years , led by primary songwriters Lennon and McCartney , they came to be perceived as an embodiment of the ideals shared by the counterculture of the 1960s .
Hypothesis: The Beatles was a pest infestation in the 1970s.
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