Out of all the brilliant experiments and affectionate homages on The Beatles, the LP generally known as The White Album, John Lennon’s seven-part doo-wop metal opera ‘Happiness Is a Warm […]
Out of the three Beatles guitarists, John Lennon was by far the most reluctant to try his hand at the bass version of the instrument. While he could certainly hold […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]