A Carnival of Light and Sound
The recording sessions for “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” between 1966 and early 1967 produced many outtakes and other songs that were not meant to be used in the album, among it “Carnival of Light”
Read MoreThe recording sessions for “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” between 1966 and early 1967 produced many outtakes and other songs that were not meant to be used in the album, among it “Carnival of Light”
Read MoreRecorded and released in 1970, on the aftermath of The Beatles break up, John Lennon distances himself on purpose from all the musical structure The Beatles did, the result is a brilliant masterpiece
Read MoreOn October 9th, 1940, in Liverpool, England, one of 20th century and all times absolute icons was born, we look back at the life and career of John Lennon
Read MoreHow well do you know John Lennon’s life and career? Test your fan level!
Read MoreDo you know which lead is John Lennon and which lead is Paul McCartney on The Beatles songs? Do the quiz to find out!
Read MoreReleased in September 1971 in the U.S and on October 8th, 1971, worldwide, “Imagine” it’s definitely John Lennon’s most popular solo album, it includes some of his most enduring and famous songs such as “Imagine” and “Jealous Guy”, we revisit this enduring Rock classic
Read MoreFor five years, John Lennon engaged on a legal battle with the U.S government to be allowed to live and work there after the U.S immigration sent him a deportation letter stating that he was not welcomed to live and work in the U.S
Read MoreBesides the great music both albums have, the 1968 acclaimed “The Beatles” and 1977 seminal Punk record “Nevermind the Bollocks Here’s The Sex Pistols” are connected through a very important detail that some people might not be aware of
Read MoreOne of the most important singles in Rock history, “Love Me Do” by The Beatles, was released on this day in 1962, but what some people may not know is that “Love Me Do” most famous version, usually does not feature Ringo Starr on the drums
Read More“Abbey Road,” a very righteous goodbye from The Beatles was released on September 26th, 1969, and it was the last album they recorded together as a band though it came out before “Let It Be” released in 1970
Read MoreThe 1960’s were prodigal in transforming real Rock and Pop bands into cartoons and on September 25th,1965 the first cartoon series based on a Rock band premiered on ABC: “The Beatles”
Read MoreHe wasn’t and still is not as famous as George, John, Paul and Ringo, however, without him there would be no Beatles as we know
Read MoreThe Beatles’ Revolver remains one of the most audacious and sonically diverse collections of music ever to be laid to tape. Following the similarly groundbreaking Rubber Soul released the year prior, Revolver saw the world’s greatest pop band making a brazen statement of musical intent.
Read MoreOn this day in 1963 the worldwide Beatlemania begins, the single set a record in the United States as one of the five Beatles songs that held the top five positions in the American charts simultaneously
Read MoreWe look back at the life of one of England’s greatest comedians Peter Sellers
Read MoreClapton who at the time was about to begin the Cream farewell tour, was at first reluctant to collaborate with The Beatles
Read MoreOn September 4th, 1968, The Beatles recorded the now famous promotional videos for ‘Hey Jude’ and ‘Revolution’ at Twickenham Film Studios
Read MoreEarlier on June 6th, of the same year, they had recorded it with original drummer Pete Best
Read MoreHe is one of Rock’s music most important and influential musicians, having played a role in some of Rock’s most important moments and among the restricted group people that are considered the “5th Beatle”
Read MoreBoth “Yellow Submarine” and “Eleanor Rigby” by The Beatles have interesting backgrounds and are absolute classics. The two songs were put together on a double A side single in 1966 that peaked to No.1
Read MoreOn August 22, 1969, in Tittenhurst Park, the Fab Four gathered together for their very last photo session
Read MoreThe Beatles single “Help!” was released at the peak of the Beatlemania in July 1965, and by August was already an instant global hit and No.1
Read MoreLook back at the predecessor for “Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band” and The Beatles first flirt with Psychedelia
Read MoreA pioneer of Rock music films or movies, “Help!”, originally titled “Eight Arms to Hold You”, The Beatles second adventure into cinematics premiered on July 29, 1965, at the London Pavilion Theater in the West End of London
Read MoreThe song was performed live on the first ever satellite TV production “Our World” representing the U.K in 1967
Read MoreThe song chronicles the events associated with Lennon’s marriage to Yoko Ono and its lyrical content that included the line “Christ, you know it ain’t easy” was found to be offensive by the U.S mainstream radio stations
Read MoreThe Beatle Ringo turns 84 today and always had one song reserved for him on every Beatles album. These are all the 11 songs ordered by popularity and endurance
Read MoreEver since it’s original release, The Beatles debut movie “A Hard Day’s Night” has developed a cult status, and remains hugely influential on Pop culture
Read MoreFind it out why The Beatles Portuguese 4 track release of “Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane” is their most Psychedelic official EP ever
Read MoreOn June 25, 1967, The Beatles performed live “All You Need Is Love” for an estimated audience of between 400 and 700 million people around the globe on what was the first ever satellite TV production
Read MoreSutcliffe joined The Beatles in 1960, becoming the band’s original bassist and his charisma and distinct sense of style helped shape The Beatles’ early image before his untimely death at age 21
Read MorePaul McCartney’s songwriting partnership with John Lennon while in The Beatles during the 1960’s, it’s the most famous in Pop and Rock music history. Celebrate Paul McCartney’s 82nd birthday, with the Top 25 Beatles songs featuring him on lead vocals
Read MorePaul McCartney is one of the very few people on the planet that barely needs any introduction. The former Beatle turns 82 today and we celebrate it with his Top 15 best non-Beatles related songs
Read MorePaul McCartney is one of the very few people on the planet that barely needs any introduction. The former Beatle was born on 18 June 1942 in Liverpool, England. We look back at his life on photographs
Read More“The Long and Winding Road”, released as a single on May 11, 1970, became The Beatles 20th and last number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, an all-time record for number of chart-topping singles on that chart
Read MoreIn 1975, John Lennon goes up on stage and does his very last public performance as a musician, which also became the last time he made a TV appearance, in what is now seen as a diplomatic gesture towards a “new business partner”, at the “Salute To Sir Lew Grade” show
Read More“The Ballad Of John And Yoko” chronicles the events associated with Lennon’s marriage to Yoko Ono and it’s lyrical content caused some controversy in some countries, mainly the U.S and Spain
Read MoreEver since the Beatles broke up in 1970, fans have spent countless hours imagining what the next album might have been like, if only they had stayed together. Trawl internet chatrooms, blogs and fan sites and you can find dozens, if not hundreds of suggestions.
Read More“Love Me Do” it’s one of The Beatles signature songs, it was recorded with three different drummers in 1962 and in 1964, within only five months it earned the band their fourth U.S No.1
Read MoreIt’s 2024, and The Beatles masterpiece “Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band” turns 57. It’s no longer 20 years ago today but 57, and in an ocean of reviews and articles, this is just another one to celebrate the existence of one of the most acclaimed and influential albums of all times, not just in Rock or Pop, but in the whole Pop Culture imaginary
Read MoreDuring his time with working with The Beatles, Taylor became known for his colorful and evocative press releases, which helped to generate buzz and excitement around the band’s music and performances
Read MoreWelsh singer Mary Hopkin is not a name that resonates with many people today. However, she played a rather important role in pop music during the late 1960s and 1970s, being a protégé of the Beatles and a collaborator with David Bowie.
Read MoreVoormann first gained recognition for his iconic album cover design for the Beatles’ “Revolver” in 1966, which marked the beginning of a lifelong friendship and creative partnership in art and music with the legendary band and it’s members,
Read MoreOriginally released as a single on 11 April 1969 and credited to “The Beatles with Billy Preston, “Get Back” was the first and only single by The Beatles to credit another artist
Read MoreThe Beatles impressive career reached another milestone when in April 1965, their single “Ticket To Ride” became their 7th consecutive UK No.1
Read MoreReleased in March 1970 “Let It Be” was one of The Beatles final releases as a band and had a quick rise to No.1 on music charts worldwide
Read MoreBy the time McCartney’s “Can’t Buy Me Love” reached No.1 in the U.S, The Beatles held the entire top five on the Hot 100
Read MoreIn 1964 at the height of the Beatlemania, The Beatles finally make their debut appearance on the popular BBC show Top of The Pops, but as it was practice back then by BBC, the original tapes were erased
Read MoreGeorge Harrison’s life was cut short, but his influence in music can still be heard today, together with John Lennon, Harrison was the most daring of the four Beatles on what concerned experimenting with music. We look back at his life and career on his 81st birthday
Read MoreYoko turns 91 today, we remember 20 of her best and most inspirational quotes, including some taken from her famous 1964 book, “Grapefruit”
Read MoreIn 1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono went on a famous protest against the war that saw the couple spending a week in hotel beds on Amsterdam and Toronto. The documented journey was made into a documentary by Lennon and Ono themselves
Read MoreThe artist Yoko Ono is most famous for her marriage and relationship to John Lennon, but she has had a long and productive artistic career on several fields and her experimental music influenced many of the early Alternative Rock and Art Rock movement
Read MoreThe double A-side single release of “Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane” is perhaps the greatest single release ever. Simultaneously the beginning and pinnacle of The Beatles Psychedelic period, the importance of the two songs to Pop and Rock music history is undeniable
Read MoreJohn Lennon was officially still a Beatles member when he performed his hit single “Instant Karma!” on BBC’s Top Of The Pops. The song, which is considered one of the fastest-released songs in pop music history scored a big hit for Lennon and remains one of his most popular ones
Read MoreOn February 9, 1967, The Beatles sent promotional films of their new single to be broadcast on Top Of The Pops instead of actually performing it on stage
Read MoreTo this day, there wasn’t any other musical moment on television that had the same historical impact as The Beatles debut on The Ed Sullivan Show, February 9, 1964
Read MoreIt started with the release of The Beatles first single “Please Please Me” and their arrival at JFK Airport in New York, between February 7, 1963, and 1964
Read More“Woman” proved to be one of Lennon’s most popular ones and a sample of where his career could be going during the 1980’s
Read MoreThe now historical rooftop performance lasted for just 40 minutes, and during that time they played some of their new unreleased songs, a set that included unreleased songs for the 1970 album “Let It Be”
Read MoreWhen The Beatles were inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 1988, there was still an ongoing feud among the members that most people weren’t aware of
Read MoreFor one night only on December 11 1968, a few privileged ones were able to witness The Dirty Mac live, perhaps Rock’s finest supergroup ever formed
Read MoreThe 1964 Hot 100 chart attack of The Beatles with “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” kicked off the Beatlemania in the U.S. The single became the band’s best selling one worldwide and still regarded as a Rock music staple
Read MoreSixty one years ago, on 11 January 1963, The Beatles released their second single, and the world would never quite be the same again. A few days after its release, it entered the UK charts, buoyed by a television appearance on Thank Your Lucky Stars. Climbing rapidly and continuously over the following weeks, it hit the top spot on the New Musical Express charts on 23 February, giving the band their first UK number one hit (don’t believe the Official Chart Company – it really was a number one hit!). By then, the band had already recorded their first album, and other artists were queuing up to cover their songs. Which leads to a conundrum, and a controversial quiz night question: Who was the first recording artist to cover a Beatles song?
Read MoreSir George Martin became famous as The Beatles producer, he produced all their studio albums except for “Let It Be” and had a very important key role on helping them developing their signature sound. He was born on this day in 1926
Read MoreThe Beatles famous song “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” was nominated for the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and. On December 12th, 1964 it helped triggering the “Beatlemania” when it climbed to the No.1 charts in the UK
Read MoreOn December 8th, 1980, Mark David Chapman took John Lennon’s life and and stole the world from his talent. We look back at Lennon’s life and career on the anniversary of one of music’s darkest days
Read MoreJohn Lennon’s was murdered on the 8th of December 1980, 43 years ago today. On that tragic day, the photographer Annie Leibovitz met Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono at their flat in The Dakota building in New York to shoot a photo for the cover of Rolling Stone magazine. Five hours after the image was taken, Lennon was killed by Mark David Chapman.
Read MoreThe Beatles song “Come Together” was released as a double A-Side single with “Something”, on November 29th, 1969 reached No.1 on the Hot 100, making it their 18th No.1 in the U.S
Read MoreReleased in November 1980, “Double Fantasy” was the comeback album from John Lennon and Yoko Ono after five years away from the music industry. We revisit one of the finest albums of the 1980’s and of John Lennon’s career
Read MoreGeorge Harrison’s life was cut short, but his influence in music can still be heard today, together with John Lennon, Harrison was the most daring of the four Beatles on what concerned experimenting with music. We look back at his life and career 22 years after his passing in 2001
Read MoreAfter losing a bet with his friend Elton John who collaborated with him on his No.1 hit “Whatever Gets You Through The Night”, John Lennon made a special appearance on Elton John’s concert at the Madison Square Garden in New York on November 28th, 1974
Read MoreOn November 22nd 1968 The Beatles released their only double studio album and the first on their newly created label Apple, self titled “The Beatles”, more commonly known as “The White Album”. We revisit the 1968 classic album and the impact it had on the band’s career
Read MoreTogether with Elton John, “Whatever Gets You Through The Night” gave Lennon his first and only solo No.1 in the U.S during his lifetime. Read the story behind it
Read MoreReleased in 1984, Paul McCartney’s movie “Give My Regards To Broad Street” was the attempt of the former Beatle to bring back the same feeling as The Beatles movies during the 1960’s, however the soundtrack to the movie did better than the movie itself
Read MoreOn July 25, 2018, Paul McCartney sat down with Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker at The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts for an interview. The legendary McCartney answered several questions about his career and also tells very interesting insights on The Beatles songwriting process among many other facts
Read MoreWith over 500.000 words to read, there may be countless John Lennon’s biographies Philip Norman’s “John Lennon: The Life” is the definitive one
Read MoreCheck these cool 6 Magazine Page Special on “Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band” from 1967 on the French magazine Salut Les Copains, with exclusive photos
Read MoreMade for Beatles experts, take this quiz and see how much you know about the Fab Four career!
Read MoreIn early 1967 the reporters from French magazine Salut Les Copains, Jean-Marie Périer and Michel Taittinger were allowed inside the Abbey Road studios to interview and take some photographs of The Beatles during the recording sessions of “Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band”. Check the pages published for that magazine’s exclusive
Read MoreRemembering the man who made The Beatles
Read MoreIt’s 2017, the year The Beatles masterpiece “Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band” turns 50. It’s no longer 20 years ago today but 50, and in an ocean of reviews and articles, this is just another one to celebrate the existence of one of the most acclaimed and influential albums of all times, not just in Rock or Pop, but in the whole Pop Culture imaginary.
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