The First Beatles Song That Had John Lennon Telling His Own Life Story
In the later years of The Beatles, there were John Lennon songs that told you exactly what was happening. “The Ballad of John and Yoko,” the No. 1 hit John […]
Why Paul McCartney Played Drums Instead of Ringo on Several Beatles Songs
The day John Lennon met Paul McCartney, John was playing a show at a church event (a “fete”) in Liverpool. After being introduced by a mutual friend, Paul impressed the […]
Paul McCartney Said Beatles Manager Brian Epstein Used to Do Something That Offended the Band ‘Mightily’
When Brian Epstein offered to serve as The Beatles’ manager, he had no experience in that type of role. He believed in the band, though, and they agreed to work […]
The music video Paul McCartney called a pretty average porn movie: “I’ve seen better”
For someone like Paul McCartney, few things get in the way of a great song. Despite being victim to dated production throughout various points in his career, his strengths as […]
The Beatles songs John Lennon loved most of all
The Beatles are a band who, no matter how many words are written about them, it still won’t be enough to accurately convey what they did for music. They’re the […]
3 Bands That Inspired the Beatles
It’s hard to pinpoint exactly what made The Beatles as big as they were. Was it their excellent songwriting ability? Was it the instrumentation, or simply their well-crafted image? It’s […]
The Beatles song John Lennon called “a piece of journalism”
Love is probably the only emotion that we are so incapable of explaining; it requires absolutely no explanation. Look at someone like John Lennon. From an early age, he was […]
Who was ‘Michelle’ from The Beatles song?
At the back end of 1965, The Beatles released Rubber Soul, an LP that would change the course of rock history by challenging an entire generation of popular artists to […]
The song Ringo Starr said ruined him as a rock singer: “I blame that band”
Ringo Starr never claimed to have the greatest voice in the world. As much as people loved his personality in The Beatles, he would have gladly been happy to sit […]
The John Lennon song Paul McCartney refused to sing: “I backed off the whole thing”
The Beatles never had strict rules about who sang whose songs. While the songwriters usually decided who would sing and how a track should sound, it wasn’t unusual for John […]