Though John Lennon and Paul McCartney worked closely together as songwriters, there was rivalry between them as they both tried to out-do each other. Paul and John wrote the vast…
Some of the best stories, both fiction and non-fiction, often end abruptly on a cliffhanger and or in a big ball of fire. Endings such as these aren’t necessarily cathartic,…
John Lennon was a true artist and put a lot of faith in taking his soul, stretching it out into a tune and some rhyming syllables and putting it to…
Reflecting on that period of recording, Paul McCartney remarked: “There was a lot of friction during that album. We were just about to break up, and that was tense in…
The record producer Rick Rubin once waxed so lyrical about The Beatles that even a desperate second-hand car salesman might blush: “It transcends everything,” he eulogised, “It’s much bigger than…
It can be easy to think of The Beatles as the epicentre of modern music. The band pioneered many different aspects of what we would now see as part of…
As the decades blend into each other, it can be hard to distinguish the siemic movements that made the 20th century such a vital era of pop culture. The end…
In March 1966 Maureen Cleave, a reporter and friend of Beatles member John Lennon, published a profile in the London Evening Standard: “How does a Beatle live? John Lennon lives…
In addition to their catchy, chart-topping songs, the Beatles also attained tremendous musical and cultural influence through their experimental recording techniques, ushering in a new, more psychedelic era of the…
Not everything that John Lennon put into his songs for The Beatles was meant to make the most sense. It was hard enough trying to find out what some of…