“I haven’t done one like that”: the song John Lennon always wanted to match
John Lennon always had a competitive streak when making his tunes. Although he may have had his own standards to live up to, it was hard to really slip up […]
The guitarist George Harrison called “perfect”
While George Harrison etched his name into the history books alongside The Beatles, he began from humble beginnings like any other aspiring musician. When Harrison first picked up a guitar, […]
The Beatles album George Harrison said was “John doing Dylan”
There’s a reason many people regard the 1960s as the best decade for music—with figures like Bob Dylan and bands like The Beatles reigning supreme, it’s difficult to find another […]
Ringo Starr’s favourite album by The Beatles: “I just love all those bits and pieces”
With The Beatles, there is no objective answer regarding their best album. Each record means something different in the eyes of the beholder, including to those within the Fab Four […]
A Complete Circle: John Lennon and the song that connected his first and last album
Although John Lennon first came to prominence as the brazen young frontman of The Beatles, just like his bandmates, he would metamorphose as a person as his story went on, […]
‘Only A Northern Song’: The first sign George Harrison wanted to leave The Beatles
George Harrison was never meant to stay in The Beatles by the end of the 1960s. He had developed into a far greater songwriter to just be known as second […]
A look back at George Harrison’s game-changing gig ‘Concert For Bangladesh’
Back in 1971, George Harrison was behind one of the largest gestures of goodwill that a rock star is ever likely to give, and with it, he set the tone […]
What was the first guitar solo George Harrison played on a Beatles song?
At about 9am on February 11th, 1963, The Beatles arrived at Abbey Road Studio Two to record ten songs in a single day for their debut album Please Please Me. […]
The Beatles masterpiece that George Harrison dismissed as “boring”
For more than 50 years, The Beatles’ album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band has been regarded as the pinnacle of popular music, a benchmark for all other albums to […]
The “fruity” Paul McCartney song that George Harrison despised
It’s no secret that one of the most strained relationships within The Beatles was between Paul McCartney and George Harrison. Compared to the rest of the group, McCartney and Harrison […]