The Martin Scorsese–produced documentary reminds us that the frenzied response to the group’s arrival in America changed the course of the country, the culture, and the world.
During the press conference held immediately after the Beatles landed at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport on February 7, 1964, one of the reporters yelled out "What's your ambition?" George Harrison replied, "To go to America."At the time, ...
"All that culture of the sixties going back to those traveling medicine men, Gypsies, it echoed back to the previous century really."
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was a defining cultural event of not only the '60s but of the entire 20th century. It represented a cultural upheaval, one that music badly needed at the time. That album crystallized the zeitgeist of ...
If all the Beatles members are heard in the song, and it’s released as a Beatles single, then it’s undoubtedly a Beatles song…right?Â
In a televised performance of The Beatles in 1965, George Harrison gave the following spiel:"We'd like to do something now which we've never ever done before, and it's a track off our new LP. And this song's ...
With the help of AI, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr have put the finishing touches on an old John Lennon demo: "Now and Then."
Now and Then - "the last Beatles song," as the promo keeps putting it - is here. The vibe is one of solemn wistfulness. The story is over. We're sorry but it's time to go. It's getting very near the end. ...
A side note from an epic day in Philippine music history.
The Beatles-arguably the greatest band in all of human history-played two shows on their one and only visit to the Philippines on July 4, 1966. Many music fans are aware that, because the band had a less-than-ideal experience ...
A new book of never-before-seen photos, forgotten by McCartney and undeveloped for years, reveals an idol in the making determined to stay a subject instead of becoming an object.
What can there be left to say about Beatlemania? Plenty. The Beatles' arrival is one of the most consequential events of the Western twentieth century. You might as well ask: what's left to say about World War II? There will always ...
In George Harrison’s 1986 interview, he said they were glad to snub the Marcos family.
During Bongbong Marcos' interview with Toni Gonzaga, he casually mentioned that he was friends with the members of The Beatles, in response to Gonzaga's question about the musicians he idolized. Marcos was talking about what his career would have been if ...
Even the most devoted Beatles fans will learn something new from the docuseries.
The Beatles were first and foremost a studio band. They famously quit touring in 1966 following a performance at San Francisco's Candlestick Park during the height of Beatlemania. It was just as well for the lads from Liverpool because the group ...
It's the Abbey Road anniversary, 50th to be exact, and we still can't get over the fact that half a century has passed since the Beatles dropped one of their best albums. After 10 years together with 12 records under ...
Some artists and the music they make stand the test of time. The Beatles took the world by storm with their popular hits like "I Want to Hold Your Hand," "Hey Jude," and "Let It Be," and the legacy lives on-they ...
Because every time a bell rings a Beatle gets his Wings.
In the expansive list of Paul McCartney's career accomplishments, stage work somehow wasn't on that list-yet. That's all about to change though as the rocker is in the process of penning a musical adaptation of Frank Capra's ...
It’s in the movies inspired by the Beatles' music, however, that we find the most magic.
Over the course of their remarkably prolific career, the Beatles wrote 27 songs that reached Number 1 on the U.K. and U.S.'s major music charts. It's no surprise, then, that the band and their music have inspired more ...
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