No one really questioned The Beatles’ talents as a live act in their early days. They were pretty boys and were probably envied by every other male in the audience who wanted to be them, but the kind of chemistry they created whenever they harmonised together could never be replicated, no matter how much aspiring […]
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George Harrison‘s trip to India might just be one of the most impactful adventures in all of music. Because when Harrison travelled East in search of spiritual enlightenment, he didn’t just find it for himself, he found it for the rest of the musical world. While studying the sitar under renowned virtuoso Ravi Shankar, while […]
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The Last Private Moment Between Two Beatles The final time Paul McCartney saw George Harrison, there were no cameras, no reporters, and no music headlines. It was November 2001 inside a quiet hospital room in New York. George had been battling cancer for years, and those closest to him knew time was running short. When […]
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It is difficult to quantify just how much power The Beatles were bestowed with back in the 1960s; during the peak of the Cold War, they managed to infiltrate the airwaves of both Manhattan and Moscow in ways that military forces could only dream of. Yet, their colossal power failed to endear the band towards […]
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There are plenty of people who would kill to have nearly anything that George Harrison touched when he was still with us. Every member of The Beatles doesn’t even feel like a human half the time, and when anyone has the luxury of being in the presence of one of them, chances are even the […]
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At the peak of their power, it seemed as though The Beatles had more global power than a small nation; at the very least, they had enough power to threaten the ego of President Marcos of the Philippines, who sent his military police after the Fab Four back in 1966. Nevertheless, the band never managed […]
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Ringo Starr usually didn’t have that much of a problem being the worst of the best in The Beatles. There’s no conceivable way that anyone would have been able to do what he did behind the kit, but he was more than happy to admit when he didn’t have the same kind of songwriting chops […]
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What’s the moment you regret most in your life? For the people of Dingwall, it was the time they decided not to go and see The Beatles. Without wanting to insult any natives, the historic Highland market town isn’t exactly famed for much: its Viking roots, a museum, and Ross County FC, at best. It’s […]
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It can’t be overstated how life-changing the work of sitarist Ravi Shankar was to a young George Harrison. Once exposed to Shankar’s signature raga scales, an entire creative and personal path was unveiled by the classical Indian musician, triggering a years-long fascination with the sitar to the point of heading straight to New Delhi in […]
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There’s a good chance that George Harrison could have released anything after The Beatles, and it would have still sold. Even if everyone was heartbroken about the band breaking up, their names were practically a license to print money, and it helped when All Things Must Pass came out sounding like one of the greatest […]
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