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Topics: Music, Celebrity, Super Bowl
Joe Yates
Topics: Music, Celebrity, Super Bowl
A TikToker recently discovered why The Beatles spell their name with an A and it turns out plenty of other Americans had no clue either.
What is the greatest ever band to grace the planet? It depends who you ask, and what generation you ask.
But whether you said Queen, Oasis, The Rolling Stones or Royel Otis (okay, they aren't in that bracket but I'm enjoying them at the minute so maybe give them a listen), one thing is for certain - The Beatles are either first or second.
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Hailing from Liverpool, England, the band was formed more than 60 years ago, in 1960 - and their music is still popular all these years on.
It wasn't until 1964 that the scousers, a term to describe Liverpudlians, first landed in the US - and John Lennon, George Harrison, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr took the nation by storm.
Tragically, only two members of the band are still alive - McCartney and Starr, who are both still performing with the former having headlined both the halftime show at the Super Bowl and Coachella.
Lennon and Harrison have since died.
Frontman Lennon was assassinated in 1980 while visiting New York City, with killer Mark Chapman saying he only shot him 'because he was very, very, very famous'.
While Harrison passed away at a friend's house in Los Angeles following a battle with cancer in 2001.
Now, 64 years since the group got together, TikToker Emilie Leyes has only just realised why The Beatles spell their name with an 'A' instead of and 'E' like how the word beetles is spelt.
Taking to the platform she said: "I just learned that the reason the Beatles are spelled with an 'A' is because it's a music pun, like the word beat.
"Why didn't we all know this? Did you know this? I had 15 posters of The Beatles in my bedroom in high school, and I never knew this."
I've listened to them all my life and I just never clocked it - I know how to spell beetles, and I completely understand spelling it with an 'A' is a play on words, but I still never processed it.
However, one person claimed most people from the UK know this.
One person commented: "Maybe it's an American thing because I'm pretty sure all English people know this."
While another added: "All British people know this."
Explaining why the band went with the name in The Beatles' biography in 1961, Lennon said: "Why Beatles? Ugh, Beatles, how did the name arrive? So we will tell you. It came in a vision – a man appeared on a flaming pie and said unto them, 'From this day on you are Beatles with an 'A'. Thank you, mister man, they said, thanking him.'"