2006-10-23 07:32:49 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Other - Entertainment
Remember their hairstyles, it made them look like a beatle, and that is straight from Ringos mouth.
2006-10-23 07:42:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Firstly John Lennon was in a band called The Quarrymen.
After the rest of the Beatles had met, they called themselves 'The Silver Beetles.
They dropped the 'silver' and substituted the double 'ee' for an 'a' , thus The Beatles.
Of course 'Beat' within the name of the Beat/les refers to the rhythm of the music.
Therefore I consider their name to have more than just a reference to the name of an insect.
Remember many contemporary bands' names of the Sixties and since have owed a nod to various insects.
Examples are Buddy Hollies 'Crickets' The Hornets, Adam and the Ants, Daddy Longlegs, McFly, Spiders from Mars. The Grasshoppers etc.
2006-10-23 15:22:35 · answer #2 · answered by JOY R.B. 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All the Beatles were fans of Buddy Holly and the Crickets so founder member John Lennon decided to get somewhere near that and called his band the Beetles.Then he wittily changed it to Beatles--Because they were a beat band.Geddit?
2006-10-23 15:17:16 · answer #3 · answered by the gunners 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I heard that originally they were called The Silver Beetles but that was the same as another group so they just shortened it and changed the e to an a and became The Beatles!
2006-10-23 14:38:07 · answer #4 · answered by Munya Says: DUH! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Apparantly John Lennon had a dream with a flaming pie in it and it spoke and told him he would become the beatles but with an a!
2006-10-23 14:40:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
i'd heard that they were meant to be called the beetles, but a mistake inspelling the became the beatles
2006-10-23 14:40:27 · answer #6 · answered by redsticks34 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was a play on the insect "beetle" as a nod to Buddy Holly and the Crickets but a play on the word "beat",
2006-10-23 14:36:40 · answer #7 · answered by Carrie S 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they used to be called the 'Silver Beatles' (after they were the 'Quarrymen'), and then dropped the 'Silver' part of the name
2006-10-23 14:39:10 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
John Lennons uncle was called Les and he was a policeman so before he sarted his shift john used to say "are you going on your Beat - Les?"
Only joking - i don't relly know.
2006-10-23 14:36:52 · answer #9 · answered by andipandi 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'd go with "Thatmadlass". I remember hearing an interview with John where he described a dream like that.
2006-10-23 15:31:38 · answer #10 · answered by Melok 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋