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Discuss this before you read the text.
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1. Can you say that music plays an important role in your life?
2. What kind of music do you like more: classical music, jazz, pop music,
rock?
3. Can you play any musical instruments? Were you taught to play them
or did you learn to play by yourself?
4. Do you prefer listening to pop songs in Russian or in English? Why?
5. What do you think is more important for a pop song to be a hit: a catchy
tune or good lyrics?
6. Are you interested in modern musical trends?
7. Would you call yourself a fan of any particular pop group or singer?
PART1
Read the text and make sure that you understand it. The list of new words on p. 87-88 will help you.
THE BEATLES - ROCK SUPERSTARS*
THE BEGINNING OF THE NATIONAL FAME AND THE FIRST'BIG JOB'
The Beatles became nationally famous in England in October 1962, when their first single record, Love Me Do, entered the Hit Parade at number 27. The famous four, who recorded that song, were, of course, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and drummer Ringo Starr. This, however, was not the original line-up of the band.
Three years before, when John Lennon was nineteen and George Harrison approaching his seventeenth birthday, the group was offered its first 'big
* Wilson K. The Beatles - rock superstars // Mozaika. 1985.
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job' — playing at the famous Star Club in Hamburg, Germany. In those days there were five Beatles: Pete Best on drums, Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and the mysterious fifth Beatle - Stuart Sutcliffe.
When the group arrived in Hamburg, they discovered two things. First of all, they were not in fact playing at the Star Club. They had to play in an ugly bar in Grosse Freiheit (the English translation would be Great Freedom), a street that didn't enjoy a good reputation in Hamburg, to say the least.
Secondly, the accommodation they had been promised turned out to be rather strange: five beds behind the screen of an all-day cinema! They played in the bar until 2 a.m. every night, and then had to wake up at nine o'clock in the morning to the sound of gunshots from the cinema's first Western of the day. They must have found it unbearable, but they had to put up with it. Incidentally, there was another group, playing at the Star Club at the same time. Their drummer was called Richard Starkey. Recognize the name?
LIVERPOOL'S CAVERN CLUB
The Beatles returned to England penniless and exhausted. Stuart Sutcliffe had left the group and stayed in Germany, where he died a few months later. The Beatles began a series of lunchtime concerts at Liverpool's Cavern Club. They were now playing better than ever.
At this time, they were playing American rock and roll of the 1950s, combined with some of their own songs. They wore leather jackets, tight jeans and put grease in their hair to look like Elvis Presley.
The lunchtime concerts were a great success. The road outside the club was always crowded with girls who worked in nearby shops and offices. They came to see The Beatles during their lunch break. Local shopkeepers often complained about the crowds and the noise. The man who ran the local record shop went to see what all the fuss was about. His name was Brian Epstein. He must have had a good ear for talent and when he saw the band he realized immediately that he had found something very special. He became their manager and immediately began to bombard the major British music companies with letters and tape recordings of the band, finally winning a contract with Parlophone, a subsidiary of the giant EMI corporation which dealt in electrical goods and music records. The man in charge of their career at Parlophone was George Martin, a classically trained musician, who from the start became the brains behind the recording successes of The Beatles. First he suggested the band hire a more refined drummer (they chose Starr) and then he rearranged their second recorded song (and the first big British hit), Please Please Me, changing it from a sad slow song into a quick-tempo dance.
Martin had some unusual and immensely successful ideas. He persuaded the group to include some instruments in the backing of their songs that they hadn't used before: the cello on Yesterday, the violins on Eleanor Rigby, the
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oboe on You've got to hide your love away. Martin himself played the piano on a number of songs, and taught Lennon some other piano parts. But most of all, he worked on the best instruments the group possessed: the combined voices of Lennon and McCartney.
(to be continued)
Names
John Lennon [djDn Чепэп] Paul McCartney [po: l ms'k George Harrison [d30: d3 'haenssn] Ringo Starr ['ппдэи sta: ] Stuart Sutcliffe [stjust 'sAklifj Grosse Freiheit [grosg 'fraihait] Richard Starkey ['ntfad 'sta: ki] Cavern Club ['kasvgn kLvb] Elvis Presley ['elvis 'presli] Brian Epstein ['braian 'epstam] Parlophone ['parbfaun] EMI [, i: em'ai]
George Martin [d3o: d3 'martin] Eleanor Rigby ['elms ngbi]
New Words
original [a'ndjinl] adj первоначальный, подлинный, оригинальный
origin ['Drid3in] n начало, источник, происхождение line-up ['lam лр] п состав участников approach [a'prautf] v подходить, приближаться
approach n подход mysterious [mi'stisriss] ad/загадочный
mystery n загадка, тайна
put up with (phrasal verb) терпеть, мириться, примириться (с чем-либо) incidentally [.msi'dentah] adv3fl. кстати, между прочим cavern ['kaevan] л пещера exhausted [ig'zo: stid] adj измученный, обессиленный
exhaust v изнурять, утомлять, исчерпать leather [1едэ] adj кожаный
tight [tait] adj тугой, в обтяжку (об одежде), тесный grease [gri: s] л жир, смазочное вещество, зд. бриолин fuss [fXs] л суета, ажиотаж, шум (перен.)
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subsidiary [sab'sidian] n дочерняя компания
be in charge of быть ответственным за, отвечать за
be the brains behind быть генератором проектов, идей
brain n мозг refined [n'famd] ad/рафинированный, изысканный, утонченный
refine v очищать, облагораживать, усовершенствовать cello ['tfetau] n виолончель oboe ['эиЬэи] п гобой possess [ps'zes] v владеть, обладать
EXERCISES
These are the answers. What were the questions?
1. The Beatles became nationally famous in England in October 1962.
2. In those days there were five Beatles.
3.They had to play in an ugly bar in Grosse Freiheit.
4. They wore leather jackets and tight jeans.
5. The road outside the club was always crowded with girls who worked
in nearby shops and offices.
6. The man who ran the local record shop went to see what all the fuss
was about.
7. The man in charge of their career at Parlophone was George Martin.
8. Martin persuaded the group to include some instruments in the
backing of their songs.
2. Find English equivalents in the text for the following (you may think of better Russian translations).
1....собирался отметить свое семнадцатилетие...
2....на улице, которая, мягко говоря, не пользовалась хорошей репу
тацией в Гамбурге.
3. Для них, должно быть, это было невыносимо, но им приходилось
с этим мириться.
4. Владелец местного магазина грампластинок зашел, чтобы узнать,
по какому поводу весь этот ажиотаж.
5. Он, должно быть, умел сразу распознавать таланты...
6....и сразу же стал засыпать ведущие британские музыкальные
компании письмами и музыкальными записями группы...
7....корпорацией, которая занималась торговлей электрическими
товарами и музыкальными пластинками.
8....стал генератором идей для достижения успеха записей «Битлз».
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9. Он убедил группу включить в аккомпанемент их песен некоторые
инструменты, которые они до этого не использовали. 10. Но больше всего он работал над самым лучшим инструментом, которым владела группа: удачным сочетанием голосов Леннона и Маккартни.
VOCABULARY
Read and translate these sentences into Russian so as to have a better idea of how these words can be used.
original n, adj, origin n, originality n, originally adv
1. The original of the painting is lost. It must have been stolen.
2. He reads Shakespeare in the original.
3. We want the original document. We don't need a copy.
4. The original inhabitants of both Americas were the Indians.
5. It's a highly original piece of work. There has never been anything like
that before. It's a book of great originality.
6. His original idea may have been different.
7. Many of the problems must have had their origin in post-war Europe.
8. Darwin called his book On the Origin of Species.
9. The family originally came from France.
approach n, v, approaching adj
1. The enemy was stopped at the approaches to the capital.
2. It's important to find the right approach to the problem.
3. It was still rather cold, but the approach of spring was already felt.
4. " We're now approaching the palace, " the guide said to the tourists.
5. She was just approaching her eighteenth birthday when she got married.
6. I think it's better to approach the manager about it.
7. It's approaching lunchtime, so I suggest we take a break right now.
8. Everybody was looking forward to the approaching holiday.
mystery n, mysterious adj
1. When and how this wall was built remains a mystery up to this day. 2.1 must say it's still a mystery to me how they found the right approach to the matter.
3. There is no mystery about it. You can find it on the Internet without any
particular difficulty.
4. His personal life has remained mysterious, despite the many interviews
he has given.
5. His mysterious disappearance created quite a stir in the mass media.
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put up with (phrasal verb)
1. To 'put up with' means to suffer something annoying or unpleasant
without complaining.
2. " I can't put up with your rudeness! " she said angrily and left the room.
3. There's nothing to be done, I'm afraid. We'll have to put up with the
changes.
4.1 wonder how you can put up with that absolutely wrong approach to new ideas.
incident n, incidental adj, incidentally adv
1. An incident is a single event, often one that's not very important or that
is part of a larger event.
e.g. She told us some of the amusing incidents from her holiday.
2. There was an unpleasant incident during the discussion, but the general
atmosphere was friendly.
3. Police fears of violence during the demonstration proved to be
groundless when it passed without incident.
4. Keep a record of any incidental expenses on your trip.
5. I want to tell you, incidentally, (by the way) that if I were you, I wouldn't
have put up with his behaviour.
6. Quite incidentally, I found out some very useful information in the
book.
accident n, accidental adj, accidentally adv
1. 1 came across that information by accident.
2. He didn't do it intentionally. It must have been an accident.
3. A team of rescuers was immediately sent to the scene of the rail acci
dent (место крушения, аварии).
4. There was a bad road (car) accident.
5.1 accidentally locked myself out of the house.
exhaust v, exhausted adj, exhausting adj
1. Ecologically, it's wrong to exhaust the soil.
2. The first settlers in the New World must have exhausted all their re
sources sooner than they had expected.
3. " Ladies and gentlemen! I have exhausted the subject and have nothing
else to add, " the speaker said to the audience.
4. We were all exhausted by the heat, but we had to put up with it.
5. For car drivers it would be useful to know that the Russian for 'exhaust
valve' is «выхлопная труба».
6. You must feel exhausted after your long journey.
7. The twelve-hour flight to India was really exhausting.
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