IN 2026, THE BEATLES STILL SOUND LIKE NOW You don’t stream them to rewind time. You stream them because the songs still meet you where you are. When In My Life plays, it feels personal. Not historic — personal. When Come Together kicks in, it still carries that pulse. When Something unfolds, it doesn’t feel […]
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Nothing that George Harrison ever made was meant to cash in on trends. The Beatles may have started out riding the wave of rock and roll, but by the time they had done all they could do together, Harrison was dead set on making music that he felt could stand up 100 years down the […]
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The rule for The Beatles was simple: if you wrote the song, you got to sing the song on the record. It was a simple premise that ensured no feelings were hurt when either John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and, sometimes, Ringo Starr walked into Abbey Road studios with a brand new tune. It […]
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The question of why The Beatles stopped touring is a frequent one in the annals of rock ‘n’ roll history, but perhaps the more pertinent question is how they managed to tour for so long. They were simply so big that they outstripped the infrastructure of the times, making touring, in every which way, utterly […]
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Every musician strives to satisfy their fans, even though it can sometimes be challenging to discern their desires. Nonetheless, the primary focus remains on creating the best music possible, hoping it resonates with someone. However, rock and roll artists like Nirvana have been known to craft songs intended to challenge or provoke their audience rather […]
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When The Beatles released Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967, it didn’t really sound like any music they’d made up to that point, or like anything that anybody had ever made until then. It wasn’t even just the sounds that the band were making, but also in the way they were making those […]
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Whether an artist tries to block it out or not, the world around them always and inevitably comes floating in. It’s called contextualism, the theory that the meaning of an artwork is always shaped by the social, political and personal world in which it was created. With that in mind, it offers a useful perspective […]
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No matter how many changes, no matter what genre you love, be it rock, punk, rap, indie, or all things in between, there is no escaping the magic contained within a good album. Yes, individual songs are great, but when an album has been well executed as a whole, it brings a whole new meaning […]
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Ringo Starr was the final piece of the puzzle that turned The Beatles from a highly promising Merseybeat band into the Fab Four. As their drummer, Starr was understated in everything he did, which was pivotal to their sound and unlocked the best out of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison. They all had […]
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It’s both the most miraculous and saddest thing about The Beatles when you remember that, at the end of the day, they were just four friends. Meeting as mere teenagers back in Liverpool, the band was gathered through church fêtes and childhood reputations for the most part, as Paul McCartney met John Lennon at a […]
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