Fans are only just learning The Beatles had a completely different name with deep meaning
Originally, in the early days when they were yet to dominate the global music scene with record sales of 600 million, the group called themselves The Quarrymen, and even flirted with the name The Silver Beetles for a short while.
Their ultimate choice, The Beatles, was a witty homage to Buddy Holly's The Crickets, with an ingenious play on "beat," that hinted at the band's roots in beat music and the cultural Beat Generation.
But stick to the lore of The Beatles and you'll find John Lennon often spun a fantastical story about the origins of the name, claiming it came to him in an extraordinary vision where a man on a flaming pie declared, "You are Beatles with an A," leaving fans to wonder if it was genuine insight or Lennon's trademark wry humor.
Lennon, who died at the age of 40 in 1980, once reflected on the naming process, revealing, "I was looking for a name like The Crickets that meant two things, and from crickets I got to beetles."
He cleverly altered the spelling to BEA to give it a layered meaning, "And I changed the BEA, because 'beetles' didn't mean two things on its own. When you said it, people thought of crawly things; and when you read it, it was beat music."
Source: irishstar.com/Ellie Hook
