There is a myth that goes around that Ringo Starr wasn’t a great drummer, and that is no small tragedy. The true cost of this falsehood is that it perpetuates a massive fallacy about the art of drumming in general. This malignant misunderstanding has underpinned a great deal of sticksmith folly in subsequent generations, as […]
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While Liverpool holds a totemic presence in Fab Four lore, Los Angeles glows with an Emerald City allure during the peaks of Beatlemania. Naturally, it’s their hometown’s suburban features and streets that form essential alleys and landmarks among the John Lennon and Paul McCartney songbook. The Strawberry Field Salvation Army’s surrealist retreat, ‘Penny Lane’s kaleidoscopic […]
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As far as business deals go, passing up on the opportunity to sign one of the most successful, beloved bands in history is the kind of nightmare that keeps music industry executives up at night. Yet, during the early 1960s, multiple record labels turned The Beatles away from their roster, with one infamously noting that […]
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There’s a certain magic that came whenever The Beatles that wasn’t lost on Paul McCartney. He may have been the one who wrote all of those classic songs with John Lennon at the start of their career, but if it wasn’t for all of them finding their place in every single one of their tunes, […]
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It was never going to be easy for John Lennon to backpedal from being one of the biggest enemies of Christianity circa 1966. He had picked the wrong faith to mess with once he went back to the US, and he was more than happy to apologise at every opportunity for his remarks about the […]
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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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Paul McCartney has paid an emotional tribute to his former Quarrymen bandmate Len Garry, calling him “My dear old mate”. McCartney took to Instagram on March 3rd to pay tribute to his friend, a day after it was announced that he passed away aged 84, after being diagnosed with pneumonia. Sharing a photo of the […]
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It’s hard to pinpoint exactly the moment that spelt the beginning of the end for The Beatles. We all know when roughly the rot began to creep in. An essential chapter of Fab Four lore, as soon as the Summer of Love’s psychedelic dress-up had run its course, The Beatles entered 1968’s eponymous double LP […]
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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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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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