The Beatles were a band.
Beatlemania was the intense fan frenzy directed towards the English rock band the Beatles in the 1960s . 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 . 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 . With members John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr , they became widely regarded as the foremost and most influential act of the rock era .