As the 60s swung about them and their iconic mop-tops grew increasingly shaggy, The Beatles enjoyed an unprecedented level of celebrity. Ubiquitous, universally adored, John, Paul, George and Ringo ...

The end of May, 1968: the Beatles meet up at Kinfauns, George Harrison’s bungalow in Esher. Just back from India, gearing up to go hit Abbey Road and start their next album, the lads bang out some ...

Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...

Just under six decades ago, on May 30, 1968, the Beatles went into the studio to begin recording their eponymous “White Album,” a double-album full of career-defining hits but one that did not come ...

Conventional wisdom says after the Beatles enshrined the LP’s importance over the 45 single with Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967 that LPs became the ultimate format until the iPod ...

When The Beatles first started, Paul McCartney and John Lennon dominated the songwriting side of things. Their partnership, known as Lennon-McCartney, is one of the most successful and prolific ...

The Beatles’ 1962–1966 and 1967–1970 albums rise on two U.K. charts each, proving the band’s decades-old hits still resonate with fans more than half a century later. CIRCA 1964: Rock and roll band ...

The Beatles sit among the ranks of icons like Mother Mary and iPhones for how universally well-known they are. Fly to the far corners of the globe and chances are high that if you hold up a jaunty ...

You know things were getting bad in the Beatles when Ringo Starr, arguably the most affable of the four musicians, walked out of the studio in a huff, leaving behind a gaping hole in the band’s lineup ...

On Aug. 29, 1966, the Beatles took the stage at San Francisco’s Candlestick Park. The performance marked the end of touring for one of the greatest and most influential acts of the rock era. Aside ...