The Beatles is a British rock group founded in 1960 in Liverpool. The group, also called the "Fab Four", included John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. The Beatles also experimented with several genres, ranging from pop ballads to psychedelic rock. In the early 1960s, their enormous popularity first emerged as "Beatlemania". After their break-up in 1970, they each enjoyed successful musical careers. Lennon was killed in December 1980, and Harrison died in November 2001. McCartney and Starr are still musically active.