Famous people of Great Britain. The Beatles In October 1962, when the first single record, Love me do, by an unknown group from Liverpool entered the British. - презентация

1 Famous people of Great Britain. The Beatles In October 1962, when the first single record, Love me do, by an unknown group from Liverpool entered the British Top Thirty, the Beatles became nationally famous in England. The famous four who recorded that song were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, who became the most successful pop group the world has ever known. The Beatles began a series of lunchtime concerts at Liverpools Cavern Club. They 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 lunchbreak. During the 1960s the Beatles were always in the news headlines; films, world tours and sometimes scandal. After a decade of successful music and films, the Beatles finally decided to break up in the early seventies, after public disagreements about money and personalities. In October 1982, 20 years after Love me do entered the British Hit Parad, a Beatles song was again in the Top Ten. The survival Beatles are still deeply involved in musical and film projects, but many fans still long for the music of the 60s.

2 John Lennon The Beatles group in Great Britain composed and sang many songs with a profound social content, which were sharply critical of bourgeois society. The activity of one of the Beatles, singer and composer John Lennon, began in the second half of the 1950s, in a working-class district in Liverpool. At one of the Beatles concerts, Lennon proclaimed with all his frankness and straightforwardness that those who sat in the cheap seats were applauding from the bottom of their hearts, while the rest were merely jingling their jewels. In one of his interviews, Lennon said that he wanted to write a song which people would sing at their meetings and marches, like they sing Pete Seegers We Shall Overcome. And he did write such a song – it was Give the World a Chance, which became the anthem of the antiwar movement in the west. That song was an expression of its support of the US aggression in Vietnam. John Lennon wasnt a consistent fighter. But he hated the world of cruelty and cash, the world that in the final run murdered him, in New York in December He became the victim of a murder very typical of the American way of life.

3 William Shakespeare William Shakespeare is generally regarded as the greatest poet and dramatist of English literature. He wrote 37 plays which continue to be read widely and produced frequently throughout the world. Few of his plots were original, and yet every word he wrote seemed fresh. He had worked as an actor; he knew about the theatre and its audiences. He was, above all things, a great entertainer. His genius was for producing dramatic effects. Shakespeare was a master at creating a certain atmosphere of a play, its general mood or feeling. It could be melancholy or cheerful, lively or frightening, tragic or mystical. The power and beauty of his language and the choice of words and details, helped build the prevailing mood in each play. Shakespeare is a genius lay in his power of understanding human nature which is the same today, tomorrow, and forever. He was able to reveal life in its full richness and movement. He studied the looks, the words, the actions of the men and women he met, and his plays

4 Famous politicians Margaret Thatcher (born 1925) was the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century. Her style and her views appealed to many British people who had lost confidence in the welfare state and in the direction the nation had taken. In some ways she was the first genuine leader the nation had had since Churchill, the politician on whom she consciously modelled herself

5 Winston Churchill became a major political figure during the Second World War. In 1940 he became both Prime Minister and Minister of Defence. He inspired the confidence of the British people in their struggle for victory and his radio speeches, did much to boost the nation's morale at a time of crisis and deprivation