Although John Lennon played a pivotal role in changing the world and promoting countercultural, progressive values, he wasn’t the only member of The Beatles adept at delivering profound socio-political messages. […]
George Harrison wasn’t a natural songwriter like John Lennon or Paul McCartney. For the duo, it was a practice they had been perfecting since they were teenagers, and by the […]
Anyone who ever tries to compare their favourite band to The Beatles is already fighting a losing battle. Even though many of rock’s heavyweights have managed to make music that […]
When ‘Now and Then’ was released last year, it was heavily trailed as being the “final” Beatles song. It had been put together over a half-century period, originating in a […]
John Lennon was one of the bestselling musicians of his time. Between the many, many smashes he released as one-fourth of The Beatles to his experimental and pioneering solo work, […]
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 […]
Such is the immense cultural swell behind the tsunami known as The Beatles that it is hard to imagine as anything other than the titans of pop music they have […]
The opening line to Steve Martin’s memoir reads, “I did stand-up comedy for eighteen years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four were […]
In the late 1960s, the Beatles had cast such a large shadow over the world that not even the band could escape from under it—until they opted to “kill” the […]
The Beatles have been broken up since 1970. But that hasn’t stopped the greatest band of the 20th century from scoring a Grammy nomination in 2025. Now, almost 55 years […]
