One of the biggest hurdles that Paul McCartney ever faced with The Beatles was trying to break America. They vowed never to play a single show on American soil until
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- TeaFlix Tuesday with Tom Fontaine (Collector) Tom Fontaine is one of the world’s most respected collectors and historians of popular culture, and the founder of Rare MAE Investments. His collection spans more than half a century...
- The Musician That Sent Paul McCartney on His “First Voyage Into Feedback” and How It Inspired “Taxman” – American Songwriter Before 1966, The Beatles were the biggest band in the world, but they were the biggest pop-rock band in the world. Until that year, The Beatles had yet to establish...
- One Beatles error plagued George Martin when he listened to them In not much more than a decade, The Beatles managed to write around 230 songs, depending on who you ask. That’s roughly 21 a year. Considering that they now have...
- The bizarre moment George Harrison ran himself over with a tractor What’s the wildest rock and roll injury story you can remember?Bob Dylan crashing his motorbike, Patti Smith breaking her neck onstage in 1977, Pete Townshend impaling his hand on his...
- Paul McCartney Reveals His Favorite Movie He Ever Made, The Beatles’ Historic Debut Film – American Songwriter In conjunction with Paul McCartney’s new documentary, Paul McCartney: Man On The Run, getting its TV premiere on Amazon’s Prime Video service this February 27, the latest installment of his...
- John Lennon’s private favourite Motown songs The first was, of course, The Beatles; the four Merseyside ‘Mop Tops’ who had graduated from being teenage skiffle obsessives to become a cultural phenomenon mobbed everywhere from Tranmere to...
- The Beatles song Paul McCartney and George Harrison resented In the shadow of their enormous, unprecedented success story, it is easy to forget that The Beatles were, at their core, four young lads in their mid-20s, largely figuring things...
- The northern soul classic that John Lennon truly loved Obscurity is a word that does not appear in the index of The Beatles; their instant popularity was so overwhelming, in fact, that the word ‘Beatlemania’ had to be coined....
- The Beatles song that told the world they had arrived The world was a darker place before The Beatles announced themselves in the tender years of the 1960s. As the late, great Ozzy Osbourne once said, when The Beatles arrived,...
- The singer John Lennon said had the most “perfect” voice In the grand history of rock and roll, there has never been someone more willing to take the piss out of their own work than John Lennon.As much as The...
- The best solo performance by each Beatle after their breakup Given that they’re the most famous and lauded band of all time, it’s probably fair to say that most people born after 1960 would give their left arm to have...
- The one album Jeff Lynne called the biggest thrill of his life Anyone would have been satisfied to have accomplished even a third of what Jeff Lynne has done during his lifetime. The fact that he has rubbed elbows with so many...
- The Underrated Music Man Who Helped Write One of The Beatles’ Biggest Hits and Launched the Careers of Two Giants – American Songwriter People likely assume that John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote The Beatles’ hit “Twist And Shout”. They wrote nearly all of their music, so why wouldn’t they write this one?...
- The story of how George Harrison transformed ‘Get Back’ for the better It is no secret now, nor has it ever been, that George Harrison’s contributions to The Beatles were far too often underappreciated and overlooked. Yet, without the countless contributions of...
- Filming for The Beatles movies underway as iconic moment recreated – Liverpool Echo Images from the production of the ambitious cinematic event series on The Beatles have been released as filming has officially got underway. Sir Sam Mendes is directing four films based...
- Bruce Springsteen and David Crosby pick the best singer in The Beatles Most bands are lucky if they have one decent singer and songwriter; The Beatles, to the envy of groups around the world, had four. Paul McCartney once spoke to Keith...
- The author and illustrator of the kids’ book ‘The One About the Blackbird’ are big Beatles fans : NPR In the children’s book “The One About The Blackbird,” a young boy learns to play guitar from his grandfather, and there’s one song in particular that they love.MELANIE FLORENCE: Are...
- The “best” Paul McCartney song, according to John Lennon The story of John Lennon and Paul McCartney is a complicated one. Together, they formed arguably the greatest songwriting partnership of all time, making The Beatles the most significant rock...
- The singer John Lennon called “a vast repertoire” of talent The invisible string theory is the idea that, in some way, somehow, we are already tethered to all the people who will be important to us in our lives.It’s the...
- The singer George Harrison never wanted to work with again By the time The Beatles broke up, no one would have been happier than George Harrison.It did sting knowing that the band of brothers was going to be going their...
John Lennon enjoyed many fractious relationships throughout his life. First, there was his mother, then Aunt Mimi, then Paul McCartney, Cynthia, Yoko and the list never ends. While the founding
It’s all very well being a member of the most successful band of all time, but for The Beatles, is it possible that you can simply have it too good
On August 20th, 1969, the four members of The Beatles gathered in Studio 2 of Abbey Road with producer George Martin.They were putting the finishing touches to a song as
From day one, The Beatles never intended to be the best band in the world. While they probably had their
Music marketeers often like to use the phrase ‘your favourite musician’s, favourite musician!’ when pushing an album, and to be
While working out the details for their second feature film, The Beatles had to decide what they were going to
Unlike most bands, The Beatles professed to have three expert players of the guitar in the band. While John Lennon
The beauty—and arguably the secret ingredient—of The Beatles was the band’s ability to bring four distinct personalities and abilities together
It’s safe to say that in 100 years’ time, people will be looking at the work of The Beatles the
