Compléter The Beatles (D)Version en ligne Fact or fiction: Warm up activity. par Triana Sánchez Valencia 1 Hamburg hit Beatlemania American Liverpool English Lennon popularity nickname period rock George regarded stars Beatles experimented 1964 Ringo band playing The were an rock that formed in in 1960 . With members John , Paul McCartney , Harrison and Starr , they became widely as the greatest and most influential act of the era . They with different genres . The Beatles built their reputation in clubs in Liverpool and over a three - year from 1960 . They gained in the United Kingdom after their first , " Love me do " , in late 1962 . They acquired the " the Fab Four " as grew in England over the following year , and by early they had become international , leading the " English Invasion " of the pop market .