When people make the pilgrimage to Liverpool to bask in the birthplace of The Beatles, they’re actually going to the wrong place. At 10 Matthew Street, in what is now called the Cavern Quarter, you’ll see a bustling crowd constantly surrounding that basement venue – The Cavern Club, to tourists and fans, is treated like […]
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When The Beatles recorded Let It Be and hired someone other than George Martin to handle the final overdubs and production, many people wondered what had happened to sever a relationship that was previously thought to be inseparable. What had happened was more down to the turmoil brewing within the ranks of the band rather […]
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John and Yoko. Lennon and Ono. You don’t even have to give their full names to recognise one of the greatest power couples in all of music history. The Beatle and his artistic muse became so enraptured in each other’s orbit, and so famously in the glare of the public eye, that they almost couldn’t […]
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Tempers were often fraught during the process of The Beatles recording their eleventh studio album, Abbey Road, and one track, in particular, brought guitarist George Harrison to the end of his tether. It was a difficult time for the band, and through no fault of their own, they were left to record a chunk of […]
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Paul McCartney and John Lennon were, for a time, two halves of the same whole. An undefeated songwriting partnership, the duo created some of the most timeless pop hits in existence with The Beatles. But as time passed, their fame burned like wildfire, and the money kept rolling in, only adding more fuel for the […]
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In the modern day, the BBC banning your song acts as a form of endorsement. Following the censorship from an establishment whose executive decisions are coming increasingly under the microscope, a revolutionary frenzy will soon stir, thrusting the song into counterculture reverence. But historically speaking, that hasn’t always been the case, with the BBC’s radio […]
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December 8, 1980 is remembered for what the world lost. But in the quiet hours that followed, it was also about how those closest to John Lennon tried to understand what had just happened. When the news reached George Harrison in England, it came in the early hours of the morning. He was asleep. The […]
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No one really questioned The Beatles’ talents as a live act in their early days. They were pretty boys and were probably envied by every other male in the audience who wanted to be them, but the kind of chemistry they created whenever they harmonised together could never be replicated, no matter how much aspiring […]
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George Harrison‘s trip to India might just be one of the most impactful adventures in all of music. Because when Harrison travelled East in search of spiritual enlightenment, he didn’t just find it for himself, he found it for the rest of the musical world. While studying the sitar under renowned virtuoso Ravi Shankar, while […]
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The Last Private Moment Between Two Beatles The final time Paul McCartney saw George Harrison, there were no cameras, no reporters, and no music headlines. It was November 2001 inside a quiet hospital room in New York. George had been battling cancer for years, and those closest to him knew time was running short. When […]
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