Is it worse to start on a pedantic note or to let an idiom as misused as “the coolest piece of music since sliced bread” go unpunished? While I gather Paul McCartney is heaping praise on the song, what his language literally says is that the song is as bland as a piece of slice […]
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In 1968, George Harrison began flexing his muscles as a songwriter worthy of comparison to the main axis of original Beatles music at the time, John Lennon and Paul McCartney. He contributed four songs to the band’s self-titled White Album, each of a markedly different character. The most famous and celebrated of these compositions is […]
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By the time The Beatles broke up, no one would have been happier than George Harrison. It did sting knowing that the band of brothers was going to be going their separate ways and working on their own music, but having been kept down for so long, Harrison finally wanted the chance to have his […]
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Fear arrived before confidence ever had a chance. In August 1968, inside the offices of Apple Records, Mary Hopkinwaited, certain she did not belong. She was eighteen years old, newly discovered, carrying a voice that felt fragile in her own ears. Around her were names already etched into history. They were The Beatles. She was […]
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November 29, 2001. Los Angeles was quiet that morning, unaware of the weight being carried toward a single front door. Paul McCartney paused before knocking, knowing time had narrowed to its thinnest edge. There were no songs left to write together, no stages waiting. Only truth remained, and the courage to speak it. Inside, George […]
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The year 1970 opens without applause. No stage lights. No crowds. At the gates of Friar Park, George Harrison stands at twenty-seven, facing a property many would call a disaster. The mansion is decaying. The grounds are overgrown. Glasshouses sag. Paths vanish into weeds. The Beatles have ended, and the world is waiting for his […]
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When The Beatles broke up and embarked on solo careers, everyone desperately waited to see what the new situation would look like, especially for Paul McCartney and John Lennon. Not just because they were the two creative figureheads of the world’s biggest bands, now freed from the shackles of their toxic relationship, but because that […]
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Los Angeles, 1988. What should have been an unremarkable evening in the music world quietly transformed into one of rock’s most debated moments. No stage lights. No amplifiers. No audience chanting for more. Just George Harrison and Robert Plant, standing face to face in a private setting, surrounded by people who suddenly felt like witnesses […]
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When The Beatles finally came to an end, George Harrison wasn’t about to spend the rest of his life moping. The whole reason why he wanted out was to break free from the shackles of John Lennon and Paul McCartney, and when listening to what he had cooked up on albums like All Things Must […]
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Music and theatre go together like Lennon and McCartney, but, much like The Beatles’ songwriting duo, that is not to say that the relationship between the two is always harmonious. There have been countless crossovers between the recording and theatre industries over the decades, spanning the spectrum from Nina Simone’s heartbreaking rendition of Porgy and […]
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