Every artist has their muse; whether it’s Andy Warhol’s obsession with Edie Sedgwick or David Hockney’s lifelong love of smoking. Few people can claim to have been quite such an inspiring muse as Pattie Boyd, though, whose beauty spawned a litany of legendary love songs from a multitude of songwriters, spanning the spectrum from Ron […]
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In the shadow of their enormous, unprecedented success story, it is easy to forget that The Beatles were, at their core, four young lads in their mid-20s, largely figuring things out as they went along. Once that fact is realised, the mounting internal tensions within the group certainly make a lot more sense, particularly as […]
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If we presume that the average age of the most devoted, swooning, semi-crazed Beatlemaniac was about 13 in 1964, then they would be walking our streets today as 75-year-olds; stable-seeming pensioners, kindly grannies. Some of them will surely be shaking their heads at the foul language in modern music, or wondering why there have to […]
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The world was a darker place before The Beatles announced themselves in the tender years of the 1960s. As the late, great Ozzy Osbourne once said, when The Beatles arrived, they turned a black and white world into booming Technicolour. The band exploded into the decade and soundtracked what is perhaps the most potent cultural […]
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There are some moments that emerge in the mire of culture that feel like a fever dream. George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, Neil Young, and Bruce Springsteen all coming together to perform ‘I Saw Her Standing There’ might not be the most maddening of those moments, but, as a famed football manager once quipped, […]
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Given that they’re the most famous and lauded band of all time, it’s probably fair to say that most people born after 1960 would give their left arm to have seen The Beatles in concert. Those fortunate enough to have seen them perform live in the short span of time that they spent on the […]
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They already had wit. They already had melody. They already carried a sharp intelligence that cut through every room they entered. The Beatles were not beginners searching for identity. They were experienced, hardened by long nights and louder crowds. Yet something essential remained just out of reach. The songs existed. The ambition was clear. What […]
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It is no secret now, nor has it ever been, that George Harrison’s contributions to The Beatles were far too often underappreciated and overlooked. Yet, without the countless contributions of the long-haired spiritual hero, the group’s output would be virtually unrecognisable, particularly in the case of their final farewell, Let It Be. With The Beatles, […]
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The Beatles achieved what most would have thought impossible, again and again. Decades later, their accomplishments still inspire, setting a standard that countless bands continue to chase. It would take too long to recount all their victories from number one singles, global domination and a fan base so obsessed with it was dubbed mania. One […]
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I think I can say with some conviction that we are all fans of The Beatles. I vehemently refuse to believe that anybody on this earth hates every single one of their songs, for there is simply so much to choose from that the reality of that is something of an impossibility. But within the […]
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