The Beatles

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[edit] The Beatles

The Beatles (a.k.a. The Fab Four) were a British pop group (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr), from Liverpool, formed in 1960. They are still the most popular pop group ever, and were a significant influence on the popular music of the second half of the 20th Century, having had a unique and continuously developing musical style. The band consisted of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison.

In The Thin White Line, a flashback shows Peter as a security guard for George Harrison, watching Charles in Charge while an intruder invades the home. On the evening of 30 December 1999, Michael Abram broke into the Harrisons' Friar Park home in Henley-on-Thames and stabbed George multiple times, ultimately puncturing his lung. Harrison and his wife, Olivia, fought the intruder and detained him for the police. 35-year-old Abram, who believed he was possessed by Harrison and was on a "mission from God" to kill him, was later acquitted on grounds of insanity. Traumatized by the invasion and attack, Harrison rarely appeared in public afterwards.

In To Love and Die in Dixie, Stewie says, "I've got blisters on me fingers!" This is a reference to their song Helter Skelter. After the eighteenth take, Ringo Starr flung his sticks across the studio and screamed, "I've got blisters on my fingers!" The Beatles included Starr's shout on the stereo mix of the song (available on CD).

In Ready, Willing, and Disabled, Stewie sets up a flashback by commenting that he'll "do to [Brian] what I did to John Lennon". Confounding everyone's expectation that this will be a reference to Lennon's murder, Stewie is then seen in cut-away introducing John to Yoko Ono; many believed the latter was the root cause of the band's break-up in 1969.

In Stewie Kills Lois, the lack of Ringo Starr's songwriting abilities is exaggerated in a cut scene started by Brian. (A scene from that is shown on this page).

Ringo: Hey guys, I wrote a new song!

Paul: Oh, that's great!

John: Good, Ringo!
George: Fantastic.

Paul: You know what? I'm gonna put it right here. Right on the refrigerator, that way we'll get to see it every day.

All right!