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 […]
A brotherly love: Paul McCartney on George Harrison’s best Beatles song
The break-up of The Beatles inevitably resulted in the silver lining of some stellar solo material. While the glory days of the eponymous four-piece may have proved that the parts […]
The bassist George Harrison picked over Paul McCartney: “I’d rather have [him]”
The role of a bassist has always been a bit tricky in the world of rock and roll. While many people have demoted most four-stringers to the title of ‘less […]
‘Love You To’: The Beatles song that threatens to overthrow ‘Revolver’
When The Beatles made Revolver, they didn’t need to worry about translating their songs live anymore. They would soon leave the touring life behind altogether, so the studio became their […]
The Beatles song George Harrison hated: “It was the worst track we ever had to record”
The idea of George Harrison being the quietest member of The Beatles is one purely perpetuated by the fact that the Fab Four’s guitarist was smart enough to know when […]
‘Yellow Submarine’: The Beatles album George Harrison never believed in
Every band will inevitably have a few songs that stand out more than others. Despite countless hours spent in the studio striving for perfection, sometimes the timing isn’t right, or […]
Paul McCartney on the competition between The Beatles as solo artists: “It’s only human to compete”
As the 1960s drew to a close, The Beatles were the biggest band in the world, but they were also on the verge of breaking up. As their fame grew, […]
The Beatles song John Lennon wrote to mock his fans
Like any musical act that becomes wildly successful, The Beatles had a habit of attracting obsessive fans. At the height of their fame, almost every country in the world had […]
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 George Harrison-Penned Beatles Song That the Band Never Performed Live (And Why)
While The Beatles did their best to perform their most-loved songs while they were still touring, quite a few tracks have never been performed live by the Fab Four. The […]