All 18 Uses of
The Beatles
in
Outliers
- Let's test the idea with two examples, and for the sake of simplicity, let's make them as familiar as possible: the Beatles, one of the most famous rock bands ever; and Bill Gates, one of the world's richest men.†
Chpt 2The Beatles = arguably the greatest pop band of all time (1962-1970)
- The Beatles, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, came to the United States in February of 1964, starting the so-called British Invasion of the American music scene and putting out a string of hit records that transformed the face of popular music.†
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- The first interesting thing about the Beatles for our purposes is how long they had already been together by the time they reached the United States.†
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- Incidentally, the time that elapsed between their founding and their arguably greatest artistic achievements, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and The Beatles [White Album], is ten years.†
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- It had strip clubs," says Philip Norman, who wrote the Beatles biography Shout!†
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- And eventually the Beatles made a connection not just with Bruno but with other club owners as well.†
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- Here is John Lennon, in an interview after the Beatles disbanded, talking about the band's performances at a Hamburg strip club called the Indra: We got better and got more confidence.†
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- Here is Pete Best, the Beatles' drummer at the time: "Once the news got out about that we were making a show, the club started packing them in.†
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- The Beatles ended up traveling to Hamburg five times between 1960 and the end of 1962.†
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- The Hamburg crucible is one of the things that set the Beatles apart.†
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- His story is almost as well known as the Beatles'.†
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- If we put the stories of hockey players and the Beatles and Bill Joy and Bill Gates together, I think we get a more complete picture of the path to success.†
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- Joy and Gates and the Beatles are all undeniably talented.†
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- The Beatles, for the most random of reasons, got invited to go to Hamburg.†
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- Without Hamburg, the Beatles might well have taken a different path.†
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- And the Beatles didn't recoil in horror when they were told they had to play eight hours a night, seven days a week.†
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- The Beatles put in thousands of hours of practice in Hamburg.
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- For the Beatles, it was Hamburg.†
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