The beatles endure as the greatest popular music band of all times as the band s music and lyrics have transcended the decades and john paul george and ringo s individual personalities to influence generations of musicians and fans across the world but before the fame and fortune there was the lesser known story about the six young men who would and wouldn t grow up to become the beatles becoming the beatles begins in working class liverpool in the 1950s a grim sea port where poverty haunt