No matter how many changes, no matter what genre you love, be it rock, punk, rap, indie, or all things in between, there is no escaping the magic contained within a good album. Yes, individual songs are great, but when an album has been well executed as a whole, it brings a whole new meaning […]
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Ringo Starr was the final piece of the puzzle that turned The Beatles from a highly promising Merseybeat band into the Fab Four. As their drummer, Starr was understated in everything he did, which was pivotal to their sound and unlocked the best out of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison. They all had […]
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It turns out that the small Weybridge town in the UK’s Surrey area possibly lent an indirect hand in shaping one of The Beatles’ most creative cuts on more than one occasion. By 1967, The Beatles were well into their psychedelic phase, eagerly trying to capture the mind-expanding experiences had on LSD to record as […]
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The evening did not carry the restless energy of a typical concert. It unfolded slowly, almost reverently, as though the room itself understood the weight of what was about to happen. Julian Lennon, Sean Lennon, Dhani Harrison, Zak Starkey, and James McCartney stepped forward together, not as replacements for giants, but as custodians of something […]
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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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It’s impossible to think of The Beatles without Ringo Starr leading the charge behind the drum kit. There might be no end to the amount of jokes being made at his expense for not being the most important member of the group, but if you were to take his drum parts out of all their […]
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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 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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For anyone who considers themselves to be a fan of the band, choosing a favourite album by The Beatles is a near-impossible task, given how virtually all of their albums reach a similar standard of excellence and are almost inseparable from one another in this regard. Admittedly, very few people are going to look at […]
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When talking about the rise of The Beatles, it’s easy to forget about the kind of impact Ringo Starr has had. No, he might not have been gifted with the greatest songwriting chops in the world, but his internal sense of rhythm when playing all of their songs always put him one notch above every […]
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