No, there never actually was a fifth member of The Beatles. Or was there? It’s been joked about for years that anyone could be a Beatle because there seemed to
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- The song that made Paul McCartney call The Beatles “hacks” You might be forgiven for feeling a bit queasy about the sheer volume of praise that The Beatles receive. You may think it is unwarranted that their influence is circumstance...
- John Lennon’s ‘devastating’ last words to be laid bare in new doc John Lennon was shot and killed on December 8, 1980, by Mark David Chapman outside his home at the Dakota in New York City. The legendary musician was struck five...
- The only album John Lennon said he would never do again Individually, The Beatles didn’t waste any time in starting their solo careers at the beginning of the 1970s.Rather than receding into the warmth of creative exile, putting their feet up...
- Beatles Author Aaron Badgley on TeaFlix Tuesday Beatles Author Aaron Badgley on TeaFlix Tuesday Beatles historian Aaron Badgley live from Toronto as hey discuss his new book (with a foreword by Ruth) called Ringo Starr Solo Career...
- The Motown star George Harrison fell “madly in love” with From the first affordable motor car to the unavoidable landscape of Tim Robinson quotes, the world has a lot to thank the city of Detroit for, and Motown is perhaps...
- The Beatles Anthology 2025 Review – ‘Extensive and exhaustive’ “It’s almost impossible to get the definitive story of the Beatles,” says Paul McCartney in The Beatles Anthology. That hasn’t stopped people trying. The craze for filmed fodder about the...
- The Beatles song John Lennon thanked God he didn’t write John Lennon was usually the first person to think that one of The Beatles’ greatest songs was a piece of trash.There was no reason for him to look back fondly...
- George Harrison News George Harrison may have been the quiet Beatle, but he was the most adventurous member of the group. And he was the most underappreciated. In the early days, he was...
- John Lennon and the FBI – Dissent Magazine The concept of the ‘official secret’ is the specific invention of bureaucracy,” Max Weber wrote, “and nothing is so fanatically defended by the bureaucracy.” Democratic politics requires a public informed...
- An open letter to Paul McCartney to stop being a hypocrite Dear Paul McCartney: You said earlier this year that AI taking over the music industry would be akin to the “Wild West”. Isn’t it a little ironic when you’re the...
- The singer Paul McCartney said was like God to The Beatles It’s not unusual for people to see The Beatles as something more than basic musicians. These were artists that were going to take over the world from the minute that...
- Why John Lennon thought he was a “phony” John Lennon’s harshest critics would have to admit that he was, at the very least, a forward thinker. Even if he slipped into tone deafness, or hypocrisy, or just generally...
- The awful song George Harrison didn’t “give a shit” about In the immediate aftermath of The Beatles’ breakup in 1970, it appeared that George Harrison was eclipsing his former band’s principal songwriters in solo acclaim.Harrison had always peppered most albums...
- The one live show that transformed George Harrison’s career When we talk about the break-up of The Beatles, the discourse seems to often centres around John Lennon and Paul McCartney. So much is made over their respective rivalry and...
- The film Ringo Starr regretted being a part of By 1974, the solo careers of The Beatles had began to identify themselves.Paul McCartney, John Lennon, and George Harrison had all proved they were liberated by the dissolution of the...
- Paul McCartney Joins Music Industry Protest Against AI with Silent Track Contribution After a five-year suspension without new music, Paul McCartney has contributed a bonus track to the forthcoming album, Is This What We Want?, due on December 8, 2025. However, there’s...
- George Harrison’s brutal putdowns of five legendary musicians It’s unsurprising that a band as influential as The Beatles would be a melting pot of divergent opinions. While John Lennon was most renowned for his outspoken nature, his bandmates...
- Paul McCartney Reveals He Was Supposed to Be The Beatles Guitarist, but Hired George Harrison Instead: ‘I Couldn’t Do It’ | Ultimate Guitar Paul McCartney revealed that he was initially supposed to be the guitarist of The Beatles, and explained why his “sticky fingers” led to him bringing in George Harrison instead.When it...
- The one Paul McCartney song too good to give to Ringo Starr In the aftermath of The Beatles’ breakup, Paul McCartney didn’t need to have especially fond memories of his old mates. He was being painted as the one that wanted to...
- George Harrison and Bob Dylan pick best Traveling Wilburys LP You’d be forgiven for thinking that every member of the Traveling Wilburys practically shared a brain when they played together. All of them seemed to be adopted brothers of each...
It took a lot to irk George Harrison. The moment he encountered the dhyana plane of Hindu mysticism and meditative enlightenment, the already stoic “quiet Beatle” held a solid reputation
The Beatles in America: The Stories, the Scene, the Memories This is the definitive, fully illustrated account of the Beatles’ concerts and controversies, and of how the United States dominated
Listening to old tapes of John Lennon is the equivalent of going through lost archives for Beatles fans. Lennon was taken from this Earth far too soon, and while we
By the time that The Beatles disbanded, none of them were going to be going in the same direction. John
Long ago the notion of John Lennon as a pure peace-loving activist was squashed. A man with a self-acknowledged searing
The Beatles’ vision was always to become the “toppermost of the poppermost”. They managed to make British music be taken
The Beatles: Featuring a Collection of Memorabilia from the Lives of The Fab Four Celebrate The Beatles with rare photographs
The Beatles broke up slowly – and then all at once.Cracks began spreading in the group’s foundation when original manager
Upon their breakup, the four members of The Beatles had very little unexplored territory. They’d nearly achieved everything there was
