Were you lucky enough to be alive in the few short years The Beatles spent actually out on the road? Count yourself as special, because in hindsight, not that many did. The Fab Four’s decision to stop touring and performing live in 1966 would have been impossible to compute at a time, let alone making […]
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There was no rule saying that John Lennon needed to have warm feelings about his former bandmates after The Beatles broke up. The fact that they split up at all was because Lennon needed to move on from being stuck in the same band for so long, and he didn’t want to find himself spinning […]
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The Beatles were one of the greatest pop acts of all time. From the moment they hit the airwaves through to the swell of Beatlemania and beyond to their status as bona fide rock gods, the Fab Four were held in the highest of esteem by their public, something which continues to this day, nearly […]
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The final album released by The Beatles wasn’t supposed to go out in the form it eventually did. They closed their catalogue with an accident. It was almost entirely recorded before the one that preceded its release, Abbey Road, as an attempt to get the band back to where they once belonged, in the mood […]
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The Beatles are a band whose name alone stirs emotion. The Fab Four had an enormous impact on the world, and the effects of that influence are still felt today. “My son says to me, ‘Dad, I like The Beatles, but why do you go so crazy?” Said Ozzy Osbourne when discussing the band, “The […]
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No one will ever be able to gauge the kind of impact that George Harrison made upon the world. Every detail of The Beatles’ career has pretty much been etched in stone at this point, and even if Harrison was known as the quiet one whenever they performed live, his music spoke volumes whenever he […]
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Tempers were often fraught during the process of The Beatles recording their eleventh studio album, Abbey Road, and one track, in particular, brought guitarist George Harrison to the end of his tether. It was a difficult time for the band, and through no fault of their own, they were left to record a chunk of […]
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Being one of the most popular artists in the world didn’t necessarily mean being good at one’s craft for George Harrison. He was happy to have joined The Beatles at the right time, but while the screaming girls may have been exciting for a few years, there came a point where he wanted nothing more […]
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While The Beatles were never short of an idea as a group, the fact that they heavily relied on the talents of John Lennon and Paul McCartney for coming up with their best-known material often meant that an equally-talented songwriter in George Harrison was pushed to the sidelines. It was always clear from some of […]
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December 8, 1980 is remembered for what the world lost. But in the quiet hours that followed, it was also about how those closest to John Lennon tried to understand what had just happened. When the news reached George Harrison in England, it came in the early hours of the morning. He was asleep. The […]
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