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
John Lennon’s private favourite Motown songs
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
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 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,
In the grand history of rock and roll, there has never been someone more willing to take the piss out
Given that they’re the most famous and lauded band of all time, it’s probably fair to say that most people
Anyone would have been satisfied to have accomplished even a third of what Jeff Lynne has done during his lifetime.
People likely assume that John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote The Beatles’ hit “Twist And Shout”. They wrote nearly all
It is no secret now, nor has it ever been, that George Harrison’s contributions to The Beatles were far too
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
