The Beatles



The Beatles were a famous rock band that flourished throughout the 1960s. Their most iconic line-ups, and indeed, perhaps one of the most iconic line-ups in music history, was, , and , with each individual musician being an influential and famous musician in their own right. Though traditionally labeled as a rock and roll band, they dabbled in several genres and styles, such as Indian music and perhaps most famous, psychedelic and hard rock.

The song "" is sometimes considered to be the birth of heavy metal music, or at least an influence in the early proto-Metal era.

They have been referenced on several occasions throughout My Little Pony and Equestria Girls with the unnamed Traveling Band being a direct parody of them and the place of Pepperland being a reference to their album, ' and film '.

Friendship is Magic
The episode title "Magical Mystery Cure" is a reference to the album, 

Season 5's "Party Pooped" featured joining a band only referred to as the "Traveling Band" which served as a parody of The Beatles, with a few photographs showing their greatest hits and eventual breakup.

The title of Season 6's "Every Little Thing She Does" references ""

Rainbow Rocks
Rarity's entire section of "Friendship Through the Ages" is a parody of the psychedelic look of some later The Beatles albums.

IDW comics
features singing lyrics to the song  on page 16. The same issue has a variant cover that references Abbey Road.

features Pinkie Pie making a series of rejected cakes, one of which is John Lennon and the Yellow Submarine. In addition, the pose Lennon was in is a reference to this image of John.

features a cover that's a parody of . On the cover, Scootaloo rhetorically asks the reader if they're fab, this a reference to another name for the Beatles, the Fab Four.

Characters

 * George Horrsen
 * Liam T. Walrus
 * Paul McCartneigh
 * John Lennon

Places

 * Pepperland
 * Octopus's garden
 * Yellow Submarine

Other notes

 * One of the more infamous photo-shoots about The Beatles was entitled "The Somnambulant Adventure". The character of Somnabula shares her name etymology with the word Somnambulant, which means sleep walking.
 * The Beatles were referenced in a Transformers comic titled Man of Iron
 * The Beatles have actually actually had more members than the Fab Four, namely and.
 * As of 2019, the only living Beatles are and, though Pete Best is also still alive.

Trivia

 * is the only member of the iconic Beatles' line up to not appear in the show. Instead, his role is replaced with Pinkie Pie, however, a CHS student does look similar to Ringo. However, he is a guitarist and not a drummer.