All of The Beatles were usually more than happy to give some of their songs to Ringo Starr. The drummer wasn’t known to be the most ambitious songwriter that the world had ever seen, and since he only managed to crank out two and a half songs when he was with the group, it was […]
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Like all British acts, The Beatles would have told anyone how important it was for them to break America. It can be a Herculean task for anyone to become the biggest pop musician in the States, and the Fab Four didn’t even want to set foot on American soil until they had an actual hit […]
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The Beatles‘ ascent to global stardom in the 1960s saw the Fab Four evolve from mop-top youths singing romantic tunes and rhythm and blues covers into creative visionaries. Albums like Rubber Soul, Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and Abbey Road revolutionised popular music through constant experimentation and innovative songwriting. Despite being a quartet, Paul […]
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IN 2026, THE BEATLES STILL SOUND LIKE NOW You don’t stream them to rewind time. You stream them because the songs still meet you where you are. When In My Life plays, it feels personal. Not historic — personal. When Come Together kicks in, it still carries that pulse. When Something unfolds, it doesn’t feel […]
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Ringo Starr has announced a new album, titled Long Long Road, which is set for an April 24th release. The new project marks his second collaboration with T Bone Burnett, following last year’s country album, Look Up, which earned him his first Top 10 on Billboard’s all-genre Top Album Sales chart. Nodding towards the creative […]
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The rule for The Beatles was simple: if you wrote the song, you got to sing the song on the record. It was a simple premise that ensured no feelings were hurt when either John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and, sometimes, Ringo Starr walked into Abbey Road studios with a brand new tune. It […]
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The question of why The Beatles stopped touring is a frequent one in the annals of rock ‘n’ roll history, but perhaps the more pertinent question is how they managed to tour for so long. They were simply so big that they outstripped the infrastructure of the times, making touring, in every which way, utterly […]
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When The Beatles released Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967, it didn’t really sound like any music they’d made up to that point, or like anything that anybody had ever made until then. It wasn’t even just the sounds that the band were making, but also in the way they were making those […]
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There was always a slight caveat put on everything Ringo Starr ever released after The Beatles split. He had no problem being considered one of the least adventurous songwriters out of the Fab Four, and sometimes it was better for him to get the best out of his friends rather than worry about racking his […]
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Can you imagine being related to one of The Beatles? Sure, there might be times where the children and wives of the band have highlighted just how tough it is being their next of kin, but if you were a little more of a distant relation, that would be pretty cool, right? Having the opportunity […]
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