John Lennon was never the kind to scare easily. If anything, during The Beatles’ first major tours, there was a good chance that most people knew to stay away from Lennon whenever he got angry, especially when he started to go wild during the band’s salad days playing in Hamburg. But while Lennon had more […]
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The Beatles were never meant to survive as a touring act for the rest of their lives. Even if they were happy to play to thousands of screaming fans every night, it probably wasn’t the best feeling in the world knowing that they could hardly hear themselves and that their audience was overpowering the music. […]
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Sean Ono Lennon has defended the reaction that Paul McCartney gave to the media following the death of his father, John Lennon, in 1980. Following the heartbreaking murder of Lennon outside the Dakota Building in New York, McCartney wasn’t given time to take stock of the terrible and tragic event before the world’s media were […]
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In the days following the November 17th, 1980, release of his long-awaited comeback album, Double Fantasy, most of the interviews John Lennon conducted focused on the same themes as the songs on the record, particularly the notion of “starting over“. In a Los Angeles Times piece that autumn, in which Lennon was eerily described as […]
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Both John Lennon and George Harrison belonged to a musical generation that shared a near-universal teen soundtrack, centred on rock ‘n’ roll’s seismic lightning bolt from across the Atlantic. There was wiggle room, sure. Eric Clapton was more tethered to the old blues tradition, while Graham Bond was fundamentally shaped by jazz’s fluid rhythms, but […]
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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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We can all picture it, the glorious moustaches proudly stradling the top lips of The Beatles on the cover for their iconic album Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. As it happens, the band were so enamoured with their hairy lips that they even included cardboard cut-outs of their newly spouted muff-dusters with copies the […]
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Every songwriter wants to write something that will last longer than they do. Even though music may come and go across generations, the power of a song can be strong enough to transcend any of the trends it fell prey to, often becoming classics without really trying. Although John Lennon already had a firm library […]
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Given the pioneering nature of their work, the fandom and hysteria that came with ‘Beatlemania’ and the resounding commercial and financial success that propelled their fame, The Beatles continue to dominate music headlines even to this day. It seems increasingly likely that they always will. If you couple the whirlwind that they whipped up in […]
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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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