George Harrison’s last unfinished demo was never meant for the world. It was not written for an album, a release date, or an audience waiting to be moved. It was captured quietly, almost accidentally, on a small bedside tape recorder in the final hours of his life. The room was dark. The voice was frail. […]
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Despite the legendary parameters of his humorous demeanour and almost comical dedication to peace and love, Ringo Starr knows a thing or two about music. As the drummer of The Beatles, he played a crucial role in culture breaking off from the past and moving into its expressive future. Since the Liverpudlian quartet split in […]
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Sean Ono Lennon has opened up about his role in protecting the legacy of The Beatles. Lennon is the custodian of his parents’ work and has taken over from Yoko Ono, who is now 92, in protecting the material they made during their iconic careers. In a new interview with CBS’s Sunday Morning, Lennon did […]
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The ending of The Beatles was never going to be easy for anyone to deal with. Outside of the massive void that the Fab Four left in pop music with their split, every one of the members would end up having to put the pieces back together in their solo careers as well, each having […]
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No rule says an artist must love every song they put out. For all of the great anthems that might come out of songwriting sessions, there are likely to be more silly detours that don’t necessarily measure up to the standards that came a few days before. Although Paul McCartney rarely struck out when writing […]
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One of the defining elements of most great Beatles songs comes with the harmonies. Although there was the odd collection of songs where one member of the Fab Four sang by himself, the band’s core sound came from hearing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison break out into vocal harmony together. While the band […]
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From the moment they met at St Peter’s Church Hall fete in Liverpool in 1957, John Lennon and Paul McCartney formed a bond in music that would revolutionise popular culture over the 1960s as The Beatles took hold of the world. The pair had an almost telepathic understanding of each other, allowing them to bounce […]
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There’s hardly any popular artist on this Earth that hasn’t taken at least a little bit of inspiration from The Beatles. Even if someone wanted nothing to do with the mop tops or psychedelic outfits back in the day, there are normally artists from two walks of life in the modern age: those who followed […]
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In April 1970, The Beatles finally split up, leaving the music world to mourn the divorce of rock music’s most influential group. This news came as a shock for some fans, but for many, including the members and their close friends and family, it was an inevitability. In retrospect, we know tensions were reaching a […]
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As chequered and eclectically mosaic as their celebrated album whirlwind, The Beatles also boasted a lyrical body of work that explored many a howling confessional, surrealist transport, or novelty throwaway amid the Fab Four’s songbook. It’s easy enough to tell a Paul McCartney number from a John Lennon cut, amid the smattering of George Harrison […]
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