History seemed to breathe again above the city today. Wind moved across concrete and glass as Paul McCartney stepped onto a rooftop, carrying with him an echo that first rose into the cold air of January 1969. The setting was different, the years unmistakable, yet the feeling arrived intact. Back then, four voices stood together, […]
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There’s plenty of good reasons why The Beatles chose to end things at the time they did, and the fact that the group could barely stand the sight of one another by the end of an intense decade together is perhaps at the top of that list. The two main songwriting forces in the group, […]
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By the time John Lennon reached the end of the 1960s, chances are he would have rather been anywhere else than playing with The Beatles. Despite everyone saying that Yoko Ono is to blame for pitting the Fab Four against each other and stealing Lennon away from his mates, he was simply moving in a […]
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Time did not erase the past. It slowed it, stretched it, and allowed it to be examined without urgency. At sixty-two, Julian Lennon chose his moment carefully. Not to accuse. Not to reopen wounds. But to explain what could not be understood when the pain was still loud. Childhood questions, once sharp and restless, had […]
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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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The sharp claws of the music critics would have been nothing for Paul McCartney come the end of the 1960s, and not because he was the golden boy of music, who could largely do no wrong, but because every single song that left The Beatles recording studio would have had to pass perhaps his toughest, […]
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Snow settled gently over New York in the winter of 1972, softening the city without warming it. The streets moved as they always did, but for John Lennon, the noise had thinned into something hollow. The Beatles were gone. The years of urgency, unity, and shared direction had dissolved. What remained was freedom paired with […]
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Not every song that The Beatles wrote was meant to be groundbreaking and serious. From the very beginning, the Fab Four had comedy and silliness baked into their DNA. That included yearly Christmas records for their fan club, which was usually little more than some improvised skits. But every once in a while, The Beatles […]
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When talking about the greatest guitarists of all time, John Lennon doesn’t tend to make it all that high on most people’s lists. He may have been the rock-solid foundation for The Beatles, but his strong suit was always in songwriting first and foremost, and there was no way that he was going to play […]
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Fight among yourselves, but if you genuinely want to stand in front of another human being and try to pretend that The Beatles are, if not the greatest, then certainly the most influential band of all time, then you are simply wasting valuable air. They might not be to your taste, you might think them […]
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