BEATLES MAGAZINE

The appearance came at a pivotal time in The Beatles‘ career. They were in the midst of announcing their new company Apple Corps and had just come back rejuvenated from…

  Very Sad News… Astrid Kirchherr died in Hamburg, Germany on Wednesday. Kirchherr died after a short serious illness. Astrid Kirchherr (20 May 1938 – 15 May 2020) was a…

Thomas The Tank Engine is 75. The beloved anthropomorphic steam engine, a favourite of generations of children, first appeared in the Reverend Wilbert Awdry’s The Railway Series books, originally published…

By the time the public heard “The Long and Winding Road,” The Beatles were broken up. The song first showed up on the Let It Be album, which came out…

The world premiere of  THE BEATLES‘ film ‘Let It Be’ took place in New York City on this day in 1970. One week later, UK premieres were held at the…

The Shining is Stephen King’s masterwork of horror, its title and powers inspired by a song by John Lennon, and perhaps referenced in Doctor Sleep. The Shining is Stephen King’s…

A SKETCH by John Lennon when he was 23 is up for sale for £12,000. Entitled Lady Flying on a Wire, it shows an airborne figure resembling the Beatle with…

John said in interviews to the British pop press, a Beatle split-up is a possibility. “It just depends how much we all want to record together. I don’t know if…

Angel In Disguise could be the only song co-written exclusively by the band’s former bassist and drummer, according to auctioneers The ex-Beatles recorded the demo for Sir Ringo’s 1992 solo…

On this day in 1960, The Beatles auditioned for Larry Parnes. London-based music promoter Larry Parnes travelled to Liverpool to audition groups to back Billy Fury on a tour of…

Little Richard, a founding father of rock and roll whose fervent shrieks, flamboyant garb, and joyful, gender-bending persona embodied the spirit and sound of that new art form, died Saturday.…

Let It Be is the twelfth and final studio album, It was released on 8 May 1970, almost a month after the group’s break-up, in tandem with the motion picture of…

George Harrison is undoubtedly the coolest Beatle but he was also one of the most dryly funny. Growing up in Liverpool had blessed all the members with a caustic course…

Due to the current global situation Paul and his team have been forced to cancel the forthcoming European tour dates. Given current and future work commitments it has not been…

A resort-like Palm Beach, Florida, mansion that John Lennon and Yoko Ono bought in 1980 recently hit the market for $47.5 million. The famous couple bought the waterfront property for…

Around the Beatles was a 1964 television special featuring the Beatles, produced by Jack Good for ITV/Rediffusion London. It was taped in Wembley Park Studios (now known as Fountain Studios)…

 September 17, 17.00hrs. The interview took place at John Lennon’s and Yoko Ono’s temporary basement flat in London – a flat where Jimi Hendrix, Ringo Star, and William Burroughs, among…

Paul McCartney‘s unreleased collaboration with Ringo Starr is expected to fetch up to £20,000 after heading to auction Angel In Disguise could be the only song co-written exclusively by the…

Jon Bon Jovi had completed the music for a new Bon Jovi album when the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic hit. He used the time to add another song, “Do What We…

Released on 4 October 1974, John Lennon’s ‘Walls and Bridges’ was based on the walls around him and the bridges burned that were being rebuilt. Following the completion of the…

Ringo is adamant about his favourite. The Beatles were well and truly in their pomp by 1966 and had become an unstoppable force in the charts but, on a creative…

Howlett Media Productions has won the Grand Award at the New York Festivals for a documentary about The Beatles made for BBC Radio 2. Beatles historian Kevin Howlett earned the…

Ron Richards (22 January 1929 – 30 April 2009) was a British record producer, manager and promoter, best known for discovering The Hollies. Richards started working working as a song…

George Harrison’s role in The Beatles was a simple one to begin with. He was the unique guitarist who stood behind the principal songwriters of John Lennon and Paul McCartney,…

The space where Stuart Sutcliffe’s headstone should be. Stuart Sutcliffe’s grave at St Michael’s, Huyton has been a place of pilgrimage for dedicated Beatles fans The space where Stuart Sutcliffe’s…

… “One band is unbelievably luckily still playing in stadiums and then the other band doesn’t exist” Mick Jagger has responded to Paul McCartney‘s recent comments that The Beatles were…

This month’s new MOJO gets inside his 50 Greatest Songs, the covermount CD presents The Good Songs, a collection of moody and magnificent covers of Cave’s landmark compositions by Primal…

In New York in 1976 Paul met John several times at Dakota It was meant as a joke, but it turned into, arguably, the greatest missed opportunity in rock history.…