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 […]
The breakdown of The Beatles was not just a historic event. As well as being a seismic moment in the music world, the group’s ending was also an explosion with […]
We often become so engrossed in the lives of influential musicians that we forget they are, first and foremost, human. This can feel astonishing, given fans’ parasocial tendencies to elevate […]
‘I’m just going to take a little moment to enjoy it for myself,” says Paul McCartney, standing aside to take in an atmosphere which is like an arena-sized Last Night […]
The Beatles were adventurous in every sense and receptive to new ideas which could push their minds to foreign territories. This could occur in innocent ways, such as discovering a […]
