On April 8, 1963, Julian Lennon was born. After the legendary comment, "We're bigger than Jesus,"" the Beatles last tour was in 1966. The Beatles manager, Brian Epstein, after being informed that The Beatles were not going to tour anymore, thought that he was loosing his management supremacy, overdosed on drugs later that year. In addition, in 1966, John goes to an art gallery in London and meets Yoko Ono; they are later married on March 20th, 1969. The Beatles form the Apple Corporation, a record company, hair salon, and Beatles merchandise firm, Apple Corps would later go bankrupt, only having one or two groups come out, such as Badfinger. On January 10th 1969, after having all his songs and suggestions ignored, George Harrison quits the band; he rejoins on January 15th, 1969. On April 10th, 1970, after releasing twelve albums in seven years, The Beatles breakup. John second son, Sean, is born on October 9th 1975, and John goes into seclusion to raise his son. On December 8th, 1980, John Lennon was assassinationed.
In the early sixties, rock and roll music was on a decline; it in fact began to flatten out'. On the Billboard charts, rock and roll was no longer the mainstream of music. It was shared with country, rhythm and blues, folk music and crooners such as Frank Sinatra. Some began to call rock and roll passé. In February 1962, the New York rock and roll radio station, WINS, played sixty-six straight hours of Frank Sinatra, as a death notice to rock and roll. "After the Kennedy assassination in November 1963, Americans were longing for something that would make them feel alive again. That something would be The Beatles."" .
The Beatles' music has had a major impact on American music. They entirely changed the way music was made, and how it sounded. The Beatles brought back traditional rock and roll, but they made it their own. They were the first to use pronouns regularly in their songs, including "I Want to Hold Your Hand- and "Please, Please Me-.