The fifth and final book to the Beatles Jokes and Memes series
Two new documentaries offer intriguing insights on how the Beatles’ 1967 escape to study transcendental meditation shaped the band and India, baffled the KGB – and saw Ringo survive on a diet of baked beans
Here comes the sun? The moon? The boom? *Shrug emoji.*
I really hate that I can be so obsessive at times. I was just thinking tonight should the cover art for MMT be the original UK EP art, or the US album...
George, John, Ringo, or Paul?
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Starr has been honoured for his services to music after career spanning more than half a century, during which he helped revolutionize pop and rock music with The Beatles
"Don't Let Me Down" on this quiz!
2 мая 1963 года «The Beatles» впервые возглавили британский хит-парад с песней «From Me to You», которая удерживалась на вершине целых семь недель. До
High quality digital art print Size: 298×420 mm/11.75 x 16.5″ Edition: 466 Signed and numbered by Klaus Voormann
Former Beatle Paul McCartney said Martin had been "a true gentleman and like a second father to me."
The Quarrymen are a British skiffle/rock and roll group, formed by John Lennon in Liverpool in 1956, which eventually evolved into the Beatles in 1960. Originally consisting of Lennon and several school friends, the Quarrymen took their name from a line in the school song of Quarry Bank High School, which they attended. Lennon started a skiffle group that was very briefly called the Blackjacks, but changed the name before any public performances. Some accounts credit Lennon with choosing the new name; other accounts credit his close friend Pete Shotton with suggesting the name. The Quarrymen played at parties, school dances, cinemas and amateur skiffle contests before Paul McCartney joined the band in October 1957. George Harrison joined the band in early 1958 at McCartney's recommendation, though Lennon initially resisted because he felt Harrison (still 14 when he was first introduced to Lennon) to be too young. Both McCartney and Harrison attended the Liverpool Institute. The group made an amateur recording of themselves in 1958, performing Buddy Holly's "That'll Be the Day" and "In Spite of All the Danger", a song written by McCartney and Harrison. The group moved away from skiffle and towards rock and roll, causing several of the original members to leave. This left only a trio of Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison, who performed under several other names, including Johnny and the Moondogs and Japage 3 before returning to the Quarrymen name in 1959. In 1960, the group changed its name to the Beatles, and went on to have an extremely successful recording career. Here's a gallery of 42 rarely seen photographs of the band from the late 1950s.
The 79-year-old has paid tribute to Her Majesty The Queen in a throwback snap, posting picture from 1996 at the royal opening of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts to his 3.8million followers.
A pair of graphic designers and self-confessed Beatles geeks have mapped Fab Four trivia including the instruments they played, the outfits they wore and even some of their most famous press-conference quips
“For me the camera is a sketchbook, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously.” - Henri Cartier-Bresson 125th Street Harlem, NY. May, 1993 --- 'This fellow calls himself Dancing Harry' - by Ozier Muhammad Visual language captured on the streets: The technology for taking images of moving objects was available in 1851, when Charles Negre mastered the technical sophistication to make this a possibility, and he used it on the streets of Paris. Around the 1900's, Jean-Eugène Atget began documenting the architecture
The last year in Jacobin, lovingly compiled.
“We would occasionally get stoned on the way to the film set. My main memory is of being in hysterics because for all of us, one of the great things about early pot was the sheer hysteria— the laughs. Things could appear very very funny, hilariously so. And nobody quite knew why we were laughing, and of course this made it even funnier. It was like little kids giggling at the dinner table. I remember one of the scenes, it was after lunch and we’d crept off into the bushes and come back a little bit sort of ‘Hi there!’ pretending we’d had a glass of wine too many or something." - Paul McCartney (via)
See John, Paul, George, and Ringo on the set of ''A Hard Day's Night'' and ''Help!,'' at Abbey Road recording ''Hey Jude,'' and goofing around for the camera in the Fab '60s
El verano de 1964 nació Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan dio de fumar marihuana a los miembros de The Beatles y Dave Davies clavó unos alfileres y rasgó su amplificador con una hoja de afeitar. Antes de explicar por qué el último no es el más trivial, es preciso aclarar que aquel año Tómbola, de Marisol, fue l
The Cavern Club is an old pub in Liverpool on Matthew Street. In the beginning the Cavern was a jazz club and a classical music club, but when rock and pop came to the world, the Cavern changed to a pop and rock club. In 1961 The Beatles, a young group with four members Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Pete Best, started performing there. They were the most popular band the Cavern Club had seen. The Cavern was the most famous club in England in the '60s because The Beatles had pl
Though the band was only together for a little less than a decade, their catalog is arguably the most influential collection of popular music since the advent of rock 'n'roll. They took their cues from Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Carl Perkins, Motown and, of course, Elvis Presley, and gifted us with some of the greatest songs ever recorded. With that in mind, let's riffle through The Beatles songbook and single out their best work.
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