The Beatles Lyric About John Lennon’s Utter Fatigue
Laziness is generally not a good character trait to have if you have designs on being a rock and roll star. That’s why it’s somewhat amazing that John Lennon rose […]
Why the Beatles Never Played This Loving Tribute to John Lennon and Yoko Ono Live
The Beatles never played a lot of their music live, considering the Fab Four called it quits for good just a few years after they retired from touring in 1966. […]
The song George Harrison wrote on the day he quit The Beatles
Like all bands, they had their feuds. Though, given The Beatles were the most famous and influential musical group throughout the sixties, all eyes were on them. Almost always. So when frictions […]
‘Mind Games’ Captured John Lennon In Self-Soothing Mode
John Lennon knew how to kick off an album with an irresistible, inescapable statement of intent, encapsulating exactly where his head was at that moment. On 1970’s “Plastic Ono Band,” he launched […]
The “mentor” who showed George Harrison how to write his best songs
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness taught to them by some other 1960s musical icon. All three were true for George Harrison. There’s no denying that […]
Every song by The Beatles featuring John Lennon on harmonica
It seems strange to imagine now that the first that anyone heard of John Lennon’s music outside of Liverpool, Hamburg, or Abbey Road Studios was the scratchy harmonica hook at […]
The Beatles song George Harrison dismissed as “like a million others”
The story of how some songs were created is thrilling. The perfect coming together of inspiration and happenstance, an artist finds themselves at exactly the right place at exactly the […]
The Beatles song George Harrison hated: “It was the worst track we ever had to record”
The idea of George Harrison being the quietest member of The Beatles is one purely perpetuated by the fact that the Fab Four’s guitarist was smart enough to know when […]
The Beatles album Ringo Starr never liked: “I felt like a session man”
Some of the greatest albums ever created don’t get that distinction until years after the fact. While an artist may pour their heart and soul into a track and make […]
The surprising story behind how the Beatles went viral in 1964
The Beatles went viral before there was viral. In 1964, after playing to a staggering 45% of American households on “The Ed Sullivan Show” in February, the band embarked upon a chaotic tour […]