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Month: April 2025

What is the only Beatles song written by Paul McCartney and George Harrison?

When thinking of the songwriters in The Beatles, John Lennon and Paul McCartney are the first names that come to mind. Their writing—especially their early collaborations—was so central to the band that they agreed all their songs, whether written together or not, would carry the joint credit ‘Lennon-McCartney’. But they weren’t the only ones contributing, […]

“Like the old days”: Paul McCartney’s solo song that reminded him of The Beatles

By the early 1990s, Paul McCartney had long been floundering critically following a run of underwhelming albums. Shifting his solo career aside after Off the Ground, McCartney and the remaining Beatles joined forces with Electric Light Orchestra’s Jeff Lynne to work on the Anthology project—a dual ITV documentary and triple-CD venture exploring their legacy and […]

The Beatles guitar solos George Harrison and Paul McCartney made up on the spot

When The Beatles rose to fame, many things appealed to people. Their sweet-sounding harmonies were one, the infectious melody embodied within their songs was another, and their lyrics that inspired sing-alongs also played a huge part in their success. While the guitarists in the band were very talented, they were never a band famed for […]

John Lennon Said The Beatles Set a Violent Trend Long Before The Who Made It Famous

The Who may have popularized guitar smashing, but John Lennon said The Beatles were tearing up the stage long before the other band. Before The Beatles wore neatly matching suits and sang behind gates and police barricades, they played sweaty, chaotic shows. Lennon described these early performances as violent. John Lennon said The Beatles were […]

The brutal song George Harrison wrote about The Beatles’ ugly egos

When The Beatles crossed paths with the psychedelic and mind-expanding drug LSD, the world wasn’t quite ready for the formerly prim and proper Fab Four to open their minds and change their attitudes. The drug had become a fashionable party piece during the mid-sixties and, when John Lennon and George Harrison took their first hit […]

‘Two of Us’: The Beatles bio movie that everyone neglects

The entire concept of a Beatles biopic has almost been played out at this point. While there are many avenues that people can take when picturing what the Fab Four were really like behind the scenes during their prime years, they certainly don’t deserve the same kind of standard rock and roll story that would […]

The Beatles songs The Beatles refused to sing: “I thnk we’d had a barney”

Despite the issues at the end, the Beatles were largely team players. Even in the band’s final days, when their personal and collaborative relationships were crumbling, they were good at putting things aside and getting the work done. The music came first, mostly, except in the case of a few songs when the bust-up got […]

John Lennon on the band who carried on “from where the Beatles left off”

From humble beginnings, The Beatles rose to change the world. They may have started as a pop act peddling pleasing platitudes, but once they had enamoured a whirlwind of mania, the Fab Four quickly spun things in a new baroque direction. They edged pop closer to the complexities of classical and this brought a unique […]