Were you lucky enough to be alive in the few short years The Beatles spent actually out on the road? Count yourself as special, because in hindsight, not that many did. The Fab Four’s decision to stop touring and performing live in 1966 would have been impossible to compute at a time, let alone making […]
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There was no rule saying that John Lennon needed to have warm feelings about his former bandmates after The Beatles broke up. The fact that they split up at all was because Lennon needed to move on from being stuck in the same band for so long, and he didn’t want to find himself spinning […]
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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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For a long time now, as one generation gets older and further away from their own youth and the mix of hormones and hope that once swirled around their heads, they become more and more confused about the pop culture of their youth. But there is perhaps no greater divide than when the 1960s arrived […]
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The Beatles were one of the greatest pop acts of all time. From the moment they hit the airwaves through to the swell of Beatlemania and beyond to their status as bona fide rock gods, the Fab Four were held in the highest of esteem by their public, something which continues to this day, nearly […]
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At least in the early days, you would think The Beatles would have been most inspired by their native Liverpool surroundings. A street in Murrayfield, Edinburgh, doesn’t ring that many bells. However unsuspecting it was, this was the place where John Lennon spent some of his happiest memories in childhood, gallivanting north of the border […]
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After marrying Yoko Ono, many believed John Lennon had completely moved on from his past. But the chapter he shared with Cynthia Lennon and his son Julian Lennon never truly disappeared. When John Lennon’s marriage to Cynthia ended in 1968, it was more than just the breakup of a family. It happened while The Beatles […]
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The final album released by The Beatles wasn’t supposed to go out in the form it eventually did. They closed their catalogue with an accident. It was almost entirely recorded before the one that preceded its release, Abbey Road, as an attempt to get the band back to where they once belonged, in the mood […]
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The Beatles are a band whose name alone stirs emotion. The Fab Four had an enormous impact on the world, and the effects of that influence are still felt today. “My son says to me, ‘Dad, I like The Beatles, but why do you go so crazy?” Said Ozzy Osbourne when discussing the band, “The […]
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John Lennon, the famed Liverpool icon, being more Scottish than he was English, isn’t exactly something that goes down very well south of the border. But there’s no denying the fact that for the Beatle, Scotland came to symbolise his place of solace and retreat, casting him away from the bedlam and mania that became […]
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