The Beatles were a band.
`` Love Me Do '' is the debut single by the English rock band the Beatles , backed by `` P.S. I Love You '' . John Lennon was an English musician who gained worldwide fame as one of the members of the Beatles , for his subsequent solo career , and for his political activism and pacifism . Rubber Soul is the sixth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles . The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960 . Lennon was shot and killed in December 1980 , and Harrison died of lung cancer in November 2001 .