Revolver is my favourite album by The Beatles for many reasons, namely the songs. ‘Here There and Everywhere’ is their greatest love song, while ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’ is their finest experimental jaunt, and on Revolver, the two anchor both sides of an album that has plenty more hits for me to enjoy, while I wait […]
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When The Beatles recorded Let It Be and hired someone other than George Martin to handle the final overdubs and production, many people wondered what had happened to sever a relationship that was previously thought to be inseparable. What had happened was more down to the turmoil brewing within the ranks of the band rather […]
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The entire appeal of The Beatles wouldn’t have existed on record were it not for George Martin. There are plenty of artists who helped make the Fab Four what they were when they were still a scrappy garage rock outfit, but when looking at their later records, some of those beautiful orchestrations would have been […]
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It’s hard for someone like George Martin to be all that biased when it comes to The Beatles. He was the one who plucked them out of Liverpool when they were still an amateur bar band, and while he may have steered them in the right direction, he was made privy to some of the […]
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When approaching the conversation of the ‘Fifth Beatle’, there isn’t a soul on Earth who did more for the Fab Four than George Martin. He might have been one of the single most unassuming geniuses of his time, but his subtle touches on all their material are what brought them from being a fairly decent […]
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In not much more than a decade, The Beatles managed to write around 230 songs, depending on who you ask. That’s roughly 21 a year. Considering that they now have 21 number-one singles to their name, you wouldn’t be far wrong if you said a tenth of their work was chart-topping. Needless to say, that’s […]
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In the world of Fifth Beatles, no one quite had the same impact that George Martin did. There were many actual musicians who played with the band more than a few times, like Billy Preston and Pete Best, but throughout their entire career, no one was there to crack the whip and suggest new ideas […]
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There comes a point in the life of any music fan when they are given the opportunity to introduce The Beatles to someone. While they may have heard brief snippets of the Fab Four, this introduction provides an opportunity to baptise them in the immersive world of history’s greatest band, and truly understand the genius […]
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Throughout every era of The Beatles’ history, George Martin was always the unofficial fifth member of the group. While many people have earned that title over the years, from Brian Epstein to Derek Taylor to Billy Preston, there’s no way to deny the number of little sonic touches that Martin added every single time he […]
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It goes without saying that all of The Beatles had a certain sense of artistic proclivity, but John Lennon had a greater notion for the whimsy, the windswept, and the magic than most. The cynics out there might attribute that to a level of drugs he was taking at the height of his career in […]
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