While it’s hard to imagine radio stations banning a lighthearted Beatles track like “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da,” heartbreaking reasons compelled them to do so over three decades after the band first released […]
While The Beatles may arguably be celebrated more for their extraordinary innovations in the studio, they honed their craft as youngsters performing to live audiences night after night. Before they […]
By the late 1960s, cracks were beginning to form in the biggest band in the world. The Beatles had spent the first half of the decade reinventing rock and roll, […]
If John Lennon had decided to become a music critic instead of a rock star, chances are he would have been one of the most vicious scribes in the world. […]
In the later years of The Beatles, there were John Lennon songs that told you exactly what was happening. “The Ballad of John and Yoko,” the No. 1 hit John […]
When Brian Epstein offered to serve as The Beatles’ manager, he had no experience in that type of role. He believed in the band, though, and they agreed to work […]
The Beatles are a band who, no matter how many words are written about them, it still won’t be enough to accurately convey what they did for music. They’re the […]
Love is probably the only emotion that we are so incapable of explaining; it requires absolutely no explanation. Look at someone like John Lennon. From an early age, he was […]
At the back end of 1965, The Beatles released Rubber Soul, an LP that would change the course of rock history by challenging an entire generation of popular artists to […]
Ringo Starr never claimed to have the greatest voice in the world. As much as people loved his personality in The Beatles, he would have gladly been happy to sit […]