The Beatles discussed radically shifting their approach on a potential follow-up to Abbey Road. John Lennon suggested the proposed recording more fairly showcase each from the group’s principal composers, giving
George Harrison
When The Beatles showed up at EMI studios in 1962 for their first major recording session, they were unknown in London. Only the hippest guys at the company’s labels had
As The Beatles drifted apart in the late 1960s, you found more and more recordings missing members of the group. In the case of “The Ballad of John and Yoko,”
George Harrison, the iconic guitarist for The Beatles, secretly visited the town of Benton, Illinois, several times to visit his sister, Louise, who moved there in 1963. This was before
If you ask Beatles fans which album is the best, many will go with 1969’s Abbey Road. Certainly, it’s among
The tensions of the late Beatles years are almost too numerous to count. Both George Harrison and Ringo walked out
When the burnt-out Black Keys played the last show of their 2015 tour in San Francisco, frontman Dan Auerbach had
49 years ago today, Let It Be, The Beatles’ twelfth and final studio album, was released. Arriving almost a month after the band’s break-up, the album topped the charts in


