Who was Ravi Shankar?Pandit Ravi Shankar, was the virtuoso sitar maestro who introduced Indian classical music to the world and inspired the Sixties ‘psychedelic’ sound through his collaboration with the Beatles.Shankar
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- The Beatles tease major announcement with cryptic countdown The Beatles are teasing an announcement on July 29th at 2pm BST.Today (July 28th), at 2pm BST, The Beatles sent out an email to fans on their newsletter, as well...
- The time the Beatles spiked George Martin‘s tea | GuitarPlayer In George Martin, the Beatles had a producer who excelled at thinking outside the box. Martin‘s innovative studio techniques and openness to new ideas made him the ideal producer for...
- The artists George Harrison said The Beatles corrupted One of the first songs of The Beatles that really managed to capture the hearts of listeners was ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand’.It was already a hit in the...
- The 1971 song John Lennon didn’t want to play forever John Lennon was usually the hardest person to please when working on some of The Beatles’ greatest songs.It’s not that he was meticulous about getting everything exactly right when he...
- The 1964 Beatles classic that offended George Harrison The back half of The Beatles’ career tends to be where everything gets slightly ugly. From artistic differences to management problems, the Fab Four had clearly grown into completely different...
- The 1963 Beatles song that changed John Lennon forever It was the eleventh hour for The Beatles. After a full day of recording songs for their debut album, Please, Please Me, they were down to their last song. The...
- All Together Now Brings Every Beatles Song To Wilmington Across Six Nights – Town Square Delaware LIVE The Rock Orchestra’s Signature Festival Takes Audiences Through All 217 Officially Released Beatles Songs in Chronological OrderBeatles fans will have a rare opportunity to experience the band’s complete musical journey...
- Mick Jagger reveals why John Lennon stopped him meeting Elvis The Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger has shared his regret at not meeting Elvis Presley.Jagger did have opportunities to meet Presley, too. However, after John Lennon had a bad experience...
- 3 Memorable George Harrison Songs for Your Next Spiritual Quest – American Songwriter George Harrison was a lot more than just a pop songwriter. He was a musician on a spiritual quest. Here are three of his most reflective songs, to help you...
- The 1960s shows John Lennon never wanted to play again John Lennon never had the most comfortable relationship with the live stage after The Beatles broke up.The entire point of them performing just for the hell of it and having...
- ‘We can’t beat you up for peace’: Ringo Starr shares a universal message on his 86th birthday Ringo Starr, the drummer for The Beatles, celebrated his 86th birthday on July 7 and, as he has done for the past 18 years, asked the world to join him...
- Happy Birthday Jim McCartney and Ringo Starr! Happy Birthday Jim McCartney and Ringo Starr! Yes, they share the same birthday. Form all of us here at McCartney.com we wish them a very happy birthday. ...
- The 1971 solo George Harrison was never happy with Every musician tends to be a little bit of a perfectionist when they go into the studio. Although trying to create the perfect song out of nothing seems like chasing...
- The “ridiculous” 1973 number one hit Ringo Starr rejected Ringo Starr likely has few regrets, but it’s hard to envisage him not being haunted by the dismissal of one of the decade’s biggest hits.The fact is, 1973 was a...
- The one singer John Lennon knew would never get old Most critics of today only wish that they could have been as cynical and cutthroat as John Lennon was in his prime.You’d hardly find a better hater of The Beatles...
- The 1969 song that became a nightmare for The Beatles No artist can claim to get everything right in the studio. Although some songs might lend themselves well to being recorded live, other tracks can take months before coming to...
- This Beatles Hit Was Originally Written To Be a Children’s Song – American Songwriter In 1966, The Beatles released “Yellow Submarine”. On their Revolver record, “Yellow Submarine” is written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Out in 1966, the song became one of The...
- The 1969 George Harrison song that predicted The Beatles split George Harrison always had it hard in The Beatles, persistently overshadowed by the ever-productive songwriting partnership of John Lennon and Paul McCartney. The result of that, though, was that when...
- The 1968 Beatles song Paul McCartney tried to have removed “I’m prejudiced, I like my own, you know. [laughs] I like ‘Revolution #9’,” John Lennon explained in an interview discussing his favourite songs from The Beatles‘ oeuvre.The track represents one...
- The 1980 John Lennon song Paul McCartney couldn’t live without There are a million tragedies that surround the cruel murder of John Lennon, most notably the loss of a father to his two children and his wife, Yoko Ono, losing...
“When people first started hearing the Beatles in Cuba, they started wearing different kind of clothes, jeans, leather jackets, longer hair. They talked about ‘revolution’, they identified with Che Guevara.
Teenage girls were most susceptible to the pandemic and side effects included stamping, weeping, fainting, and screaming. When The Beatles played New York’s Shea Stadium in 1965, The New York
A woman who has had a lifelong obsession with The Beatles has bought THREE of their childhood homes – but it doesn’t look like she’ll complete the set.Jackie Homes was
As politics continues to dominate the news in this U.S. election season, the Beatles’ “Piggies” resonates stronger than ever. A
Every musical movement needs its breeding ground, and for the Merseybeat boom that birthed the Beatles, it was a former
A thrilling new collection of previously unseen photographs of the Beatles and Eric Clapton taken by Pattie Boyd are to
On March 25, 1966, photographer Bob Whitaker produced one of the most controversial images in rock history, the infamous “butcher”
Papers newly discovered deep under the Royal Albert Hall have revealed that the iconic London venue wrote to the Beatles
When it opened in 1957, Liverpool’s Cavern Club featured acts like jazz greats Acker Bilk and Ronnie Scott and blues legends Big
