Hot on the heels of their world-changing album Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles decided to make their own movie. While the result was a catastrophic mess that…
In the broad scope of the Beatles‘ career, “Love Me Do” isn’t their most sophisticated. We can’t imagine that a band that was later able to play songs like “A…
It’s not always easy to find out what songs are great and which ones are crap as a songwriter. Compared to artists who slave over their instruments for hours on…
There is a reason that The Beatles are remembered for their contributions to music and not so much those to cinema. However, this is not to say that the band…
The Beatles’ 1965 “double A-side” release of “We Can Work It Out” and “Day Tripper” might be a catchy testament to the band’s early years of jangly rock and roll,…
A story must have a beginning, a middle, and an end. A good plot and established characters are vital elements. The perspective of the story is just as important. Is…
The Beatles knew how to derive inspiration from the most unlikely places. A guru gave a lecture that inspired John Lennon and Paul McCartney to write songs. Paul’s song appeared…
In one song, Paul McCartney managed to touch on his life before The Beatles became famous, the turmoil within the group at the time, and an imagined future when he’d…
“It really didn’t get a fair shake the first time,” Michael Lindsay-Hogg tells Peter Jackson in a new introductory interview to the first release since 1970 of Lindsay-Hogg’s fly-on-the-studio-wall Beatles…
Although the relationship between Paul McCartney and John Lennon was famously turbulent in the latter period of The Beatles and the years that followed, McCartney always felt proud of the…