Which book inspired The Beatles song ‘Piggies’?
1968’s self-titled album by The Beatles contains an entire menagerie of songs, from monkeys with nothing to hide doing it in the road to blackbirds singing in the dead of […]
The album John Lennon preferred to ‘Imagine’
There were a number of different factors that contributed to The Beatles’ eventual split; however, for the sake of keeping things savoury, let’s just chalk everything down to creative differences. […]
Every Beatles song that Paul McCartney plays lead guitar on
From the moment he officially joined John Lennon’s teenage skiffle group The Quarrymen, Paul McCartney was the guitarist in the band. He even taught John Lennon how to move between […]
The Beatles album Ringo Starr never liked: “I felt like a session man”
Some of the greatest albums ever created don’t get that distinction until years after the fact. While an artist may pour their heart and soul into a track and make […]
What makes John Lennon’s ‘Some Time in New York City’ so brilliantly sloppy?
By the mid-1970s, John Lennon needed to move beyond his role as a pop songwriter. He had already started making bold strides as a political celebrity, and no amount of […]
How did The Beatles album ‘Sgt Pepper’ get its name?
When it came to naming their albums, The Beatles favoured the funny or straightforward over the obscure. Aside from the back-to-back pun work of Rubber Soul and Revolver, virtually all […]
Arsenic poisoning, The Penny Lane Barber and The Beatles: The dark backstory of a masterpiece
In 1964, once The Beatles made it big in America, they returned home to Liverpool and realised that everything had changed. Maybe not physically; it was the same city they […]
Which previous Beatles song inspired ‘All You Need Is Love’?
When The Beatles were tasked with writing a song for Britain’s part in the first simultaneous global TV broadcast Our World, there was one member of the band who jumped […]
The one melody Paul McCartney never got tired of: “Quite a complete tune”
Anyone who has been playing music for decades at a time is probably going to get tired of a handful of their tunes. Robert Plant has always talked about how […]
The Beatles song John Lennon wanted to delete from history: “I was so ashamed”
The Beatles worked tirelessly throughout their career, crafting hundreds of compositions in less than a decade. While they were often successful in their pursuit of musical greatness, even the Fab […]