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Report by Eden, KRLA Beat, 9 October 1965
YOU'VE SEEN it hundreds of times before — in mob scenes at airports, in screaming crowds of fans at concerts, even in one's and two's ...
The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Q, July 1987
AND ONCE THE tumult and the shouting have died, and life returns to something resembling normality... Sgt. Pepper remains a central pillar of the mythology ...
Audio interviews
Interview by Johnny Black, Rock's Backpages audio, 14 March 2003
A long, free-flowing conversation, during which Paul talks about Phil Spector and Let It Be, on his relationship with Yoko and the "whose name first" saga, and the deaths of John Lennon and George Harrison, plus much more.
File format: mp3; file size: 75.8mb, total interview length: 1h 22' 44" sound quality: ****
Gypsy Dave on the Beatles (1981)
Interview by Keith Altham, Rock's Backpages audio, 1981
Travel with Donovan-acolyte Gypsy Dave to the ashram at Rishikesh to witness The Beatles meeting the Maharishi. Gypsy Dave is the cynic in the camp, and makes his escape with Ringo and Maureen.
File format: mp3; file size: 19.8mb; Interview length: 21' 38"; sound quality: **
Interview by Mat Snow, Rock's Backpages audio, 2004
Film director Lester looks back at A Hard Day's Night, Help!, working with Lennon on How I Won The War, and his life as a film-maker.
File format: mp3; file size: 51.2mb, interview length: 55' 53" sound quality: ***
Interview by Paul Zollo, Rock's Backpages audio, April 2015
The Beatles' tub-thumper talks about his latest album, Postcards from Paradise; the songs he wrote for the Beatles like 'Octopus's Garden' and 'Don't Pass Me By'; on drumming, and on the way Beatles songs would evolve in the studio.
File format: mp3; file size: 19.4mb, interview length: 21' 09" sound quality: ***
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The Beatles: Rubber Soul (Parlophone UK)
Review by Eden, KRLA Beat, 1 January 1966
The Lowdown On The British Rubber Soul ...
Beatle Fans Defecting To Stone-Side Of Fence?
Report by Eden, KRLA Beat, 30 July 1966
WE BUILD THEM UP — we idolize them — we lay the physical manifestations of adulation, worship, and success at their feet. ...
A Conversation with Paul McCartney
Interview by Miles, International Times, November 1966
THIS WAS recorded at Paul's house in Cavendish Avenue, Saint John's Wood in November 1966 for International Times, known as IT, the London Underground newspaper. ...
The Way Out is In: A George Harrison Interview
Interview by Miles, International Times, 19 May 1967
GH: If you could just say a word and it would tell people something straight to the point, then you take all the words that ...
The Beatles: The Beatles (White Album)
Review by Miles, International Times, 29 November 1968
WELL, THE new Beatle album's here with 30 catchy little numbers for you to whistle on your way to work, glide around the Mecca to, ...
Interview by Miles, MOJO, November 1995
WE DID THESE interviews on September 23 and 24, 1969, at Apple. When Allen Klein fired Ron Kass, the head of Apple Records, John and ...
Abbey Road: The Beatles Come Together
Report and Interview by Miles, Oz, November 1969
ON INITIAL hearing I thought that the isolated life led by The Beatles had at last begun to show in their work: that they lacked ...
Letters to the Editor: Lennon Vs. Christianity
Readers' Letters by Various Writers, KRLA Beat, 10 September 1966
(Ed. NOTE: The BEAT has received hundreds of letters, both pro and con, concerning John Lennon's remarks about Christianity. Unfortunately, we do not have nearly ...
The Beatles' Revolver: A report and five rave reviews
Retrospective by Various Writers, Rock's Backpages, October 2022
1: Revolver is Title for New Beatle LP Tony Barrow, KRLA Beat, 13 August 1966 ...
Report by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 27 February 1987
Compact Disc has brought the second coming of The Beatles and the promise of a revolution in the rock industry. But is it a sound ...
George Harrison: All Things Must Pass
Comment by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 30 November 2001
For those who grew up in the 60s, George Harrison's death further compounds the feeling that popular culture will never be as good again. ...
Eyewitness: Dylan Turns The Beatles On To Dope
Essay by Al Aronowitz, Q, May 1994
History ahoy! In the second of our new series, journalist Al Aronowitz recalls introducing Bob Dylan to The Beatles and how His Bobness turned the ...
George Harrison: Why Is George In New York?
Report and Interview by Al Aronowitz, Rolling Stone, 11 June 1970
Sunrise doesn't last all morning The cloudburst doesn't last all day Seems my love is up and has left with no warning But it's not ...
The Beatles: Music's Gold Bugs
Essay by Al Aronowitz, Saturday Evening Post, March 1964
BRIAN SOMMERVILLE is a balding 32-year-old Londoner whose jaw juts out like the southeast corner of England when he thinks he is about to say ...
Retrospective and Interview by Alan Clayson, Record Collector, Fall 2011
Alan Clayson investigates British artists of the 1960s whose early output included records issued only in Germany. ...
Retrospective by Alan Light, Rolling Stone, 12 July 2007
Tightly knit, decadent and explosively creative, the scene was too good to last ...
The Real Fifth Beatle: Sir George Martin On Sgt. Pepper, Why Abbey Road is Better and More
Interview by Alan Light, MSN.com, June 2007
There were many who vied for the title, but in the recording studio, there was really only one Fifth Beatle. ...
Interview by Alan Light, Newsweek, Spring 2012
IN. 1962, RINGO Starr was the scruffy-looking drummer in a Liverpool band called Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. The group was one of the bigger ...
Ken Dodd Champions The Beat Groups
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 10 September 1965
"YES!" CACKLED Ken Dodd as he stood there in his dressing room at the London Palladium, wearing big boots, baggy trousers, a yellow daisy and ...
The Beatles: What We Bought At Harrods
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 24 December 1964
CHRISTMAS COMES but once a year... and when it comes it brings special problems for the Beatles. Those four famous faces can't just nip into ...
The Beatles: Abbey Road Album Track-By-Track
Review by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 20 September 1969
A YOUNG lady wrote to Radio One's Scene and Heard at the weekend, her heart full of hate, her pen dipped in vitriol, and her ...
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 24 December 1965
CHRISTMAS comes but once a year... and when it comes it brings special problems for the Beatles. Those four famous faces can't just nip into ...
The Beatles: The Beatles (Apple)
Review by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 9 November 1968
BEATLES DOUBLE-LP IN FULL The Brilliant, the Bad and the Ugly — Track-by-Track review of 30 songs ...
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 1 November 1969
1969 WILL END up being George Harrison's year. He's waited a long time for real recognition, has George, but his composition 'Something' is released as ...
John Lennon: Bore, Fool or Saint?
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 20 December 1969
THEY SAY John Lennon is insane, a fool, and a bore. They call him an embarrassment, a joke, and a man too interested in his ...
You've Pleased-Pleased Us Say The Beatles
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 1 February 1963
THINGS ARE beginning to move for the Beatles, the r-and-b styled British group which crashed back into the NME Chart this week at No. 17. ...
The Beatles, The Moody Blues: Odeon, Glasgow
Live Review by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 10 December 1965
Beatles terrific... and rest of bill ...
Newcomers To The Charts: Liverpool's Beatles Wrote Their Own Hit
Profile by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 26 October 1962
MAKING THEIR NME Chart debut with 'Love Me Do' this week are the Beatles, a vocal-instrumental group who hail from Liverpool, the birthplace of such ...
Close-Up on Paul McCartney, a Beatle
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 9 August 1963
I WENT roof-climbing with the Beatles – up a rickety wooden ladder, over drainpipes, and past the huge chimney-pots of London's plush Washington Hotel. The ...
Live Review by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 26 April 1963
MIKE BERRY burst into the second half to the throbbing beat of 'La Bamba'. Close on its heels came his current release 'My Little Baby' ...
Throat Sweets Keep Us Going Say Beatles!
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 19 April 1963
A NEVER-ENDING supply of throat sweets is one of the secrets behind the continued success of the Beatles, who come crashing into the NME Chart ...
John Lennon: 'A Subconscious Urge To Get Above People'
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 22 July 1966
Beatle Dreams by Alan Smith ...
Paul McCartney: 'I Get Caught Out In Street In Underwear!'
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 29 July 1966
Beatle Dreams by Alan Smith ...
The Beatles: My Broken Tooth — by Paul McCartney
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 24 June 1966
I HAVE interviewed Paul McCartney travelling in a car at speed. Battling up a crowded flight of stairs. In a smoky billiards room. On the ...
The Beatles: Let It Be (Apple)
Review by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 9 May 1970
NEW LP SHOWS THEY COULDN'T CARE LESSHave Beatles sold out? asks NME's Alan Smith ...
The Beatles: Ringo Played Cards As Others Sang 'Paperback'!
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 17 June 1966
...reveals GEORGE MARTIN, the Beatles' recording manager, in an interview with Alan Smith. ...
The Beatles: It's Open Warfare
Report by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 6 March 1971
Why Beatles ended in a sordid mudbath.It isn't coincidence that these solo singles have just been released, says Alan Smith ...
Beatles Almost Threw 'Please Please Me' Away
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 8 March 1963
THE BEATLES opened a copy of the NME and gazed proudly at the Charts when 'Please Please Me' hit the top recently. It was a ...
The Beatles: John Lennon Slams The Critics
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 6 August 1965
JOHN LENNON shouted for food, then turned to me in the vast, near-deserted auditorium of Blackpool's ABC theatre. In two hours he and the rest ...
Billy J. Kramer Adds To Liverpool Chart Invasion!
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 3 May 1963
FIRST THE BEATLES, then Gerry and the Pacemakers. Now a new Liverpool name, Billy J. Kramer, looks set to take the NME Chart by storm ...
The 'Twist And Shout' Battle Hots Up! (And How The NME Helped)
Report by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 19 July 1963
THERE'S A long and fascinating story behind the big come-back success of 'Twist And Shout' (now with three versions in the best-sellers) — and it's ...
The Beatles: Paul Recalls Inspirations Of LP
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 30 November 1968
PAUL McCARTNEY has been talking about The Beatles' new double-album and he is understandably and humanly chuffed at the cover versions of his songs. He ...
The Beatles: The Beatles (The White Album)
Review by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 30 November 1968
BEATLES CHART HISTORY BY GETTING DOUBLE LP IN. ...
ALAN SMITH goes on tour with THE BEATLES!
Report and Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 10 December 1965
LIKE SOMETHING from the world of James Bond and international intrigue, a sleek Austin Princess with black tinted windows headed out of London in the ...
The Beatles: From You To Us Inspired 'From Me To You'
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 10 May 1963
according to THE BEATLES who told Alan Smith ...
"Beatles' Loose Habit Of Recording"
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 17 August 1968
Paul McCartney in a no-punches pulled interview with NME's Alan Smith ...
London Turns On The Beatlemania
Report by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 17 December 1965
Another tour special by ALAN SMITH ...
George Martin: Make Them Top Here!
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 19 August 1966
NMExclusive: 'Submarine' recording hilarious recalls A&R manager GEORGE MARTIN to Alan Smith ...
Wedding Belles: George Pities Paul
Report by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 28 January 1966
"I PITY Paul," said George Harrison, with a wry grin, "'cos now he's the only Beatle left, you lot will hound him all over the ...
Let It Be (Dir. Michael Lindsay-Hogg, United Artists)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 23 May 1970
Unusual, fascinating Beatles documentary ...
Beatles Were Awful... They Talked Their Way Into A Recording Contract
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 10 July 1971
...says their former soundman NORMAN 'HURRICANE' SMITH to ALAN SMITH Former Beatles' sound engineer Norman "Hurricane" Smith talking about the world-dominating group with whom he worked ...
Beatles Music Straightforward On Next Album: An Interview with John Lennon
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 3 May 1969
"IF I COULD ONLY get the time to myself right now, instead of all this Monopoly and financial business with Northern Songs, I think I ...
When Your Favourites Go On Holiday, They Usually Have To Work!
Report and Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express Summer Special, 1966
WHEREVER YOU are on holiday this year... the chances are you may bump into your favourite pop star! Some of the biggest names in the ...
At a Recording Session with the Beatles
Report and Interview by Alan Smith, Mersey Beat, 3 January 1963
THE SECONDS tick away, high in the control room at EMI's recording studios in St. John's Wood, London. Through the glass panel I could see ...
The Beatles: Only Do TV — At First
Report and Interview by Alan Walsh, Disc, 7 December 1963
WHEN THE Beatles go to America next year it will be virtually only to appear on the Ed Sullivan TV show. Speaking to me in ...
The Beatles Go Home To Liverpool In Triumph
Report by Alan Walsh, Disc, 14 December 1963
RINGO STARR, perched on a dais six feet above the stage of Liverpool's Empire Theatre, looked chilled despite his overcoat. Below him on the stage ...
Interview by Alan Walsh, Melody Maker, 2 September 1967
"You may think this interview is of no importance to me," said George Harrison across a table in NEM's Enterprises Mayfair offices. "But you'd be ...
The George Harrison Interview (part 2)
Interview by Alan Walsh, Melody Maker, 9 September 1967
George Harrison, Beatle, human being and musical innovator, spoke of God, LSD, the Hippies and Haight Ashbury last week in the first of these two ...
Revolution: That's What The Beatles Are Planning With This (picture of an apple)
Report and Interview by Alan Walsh, Melody Maker, 1 June 1968
APPLE, THE Beatles' artistic mindchild, is a feeling, an effort and a purpose. ...
Paul McCartney: 'We Have a Handful of Songs and a Band Called the Beatles'
Interview by Alan Walsh, Melody Maker, 8 June 1968
PAUL McCARTNEY, new-style businessman of Apple, took time off from creative planning last week and talked about the Beatles recording plans. Paul spoke to the MM the ...
The Beatles: The Beatles (White Album) (Apple)
Review by Alan Walsh, Melody Maker, 9 November 1968
Are the Beatles going backwards? ALAN WALSH PREVIEWS THE NEW BEATLES DOUBLE ALBUM ...
The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour (Apple Corps/BBC)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Alan Walsh, Melody Maker, 6 January 1968
WE HEAR a lot in the pop world about that magical mystery word "communication." ...
Album of the Month — The Beatles: The Beatles (White Album) (Apple)
Review by Alan Walsh, Melody Maker, 14 December 1968
'Back In The USSR', 'Dear Prudence', 'Glass Onion', Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da', 'Wild Honey Pie', 'The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill', 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps', 'Happiness ...
Why does nobody loves the Beatles?
Comment by Alan Walsh, Melody Maker, 17 August 1968
THE KNIVES are out in force. Fleet Street is gunning for the Beatles. ...
Interview by Alan Walsh, Melody Maker, 7 December 1968
HAS APPLE GONE SOUR? That's a question people are starting to ask as directors quit, and the film division virtually closes down. There are also ...
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 16 December 1972
RINGO WAS always supposed to be like that empty-headed klutz who followed Peter Sellers everywhere in the Magic Christian — a good-humoured and honourable Tonto-figure ...
Paul McCartney: Spilling the beans...
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 14 April 1973
Paul McCartney on Wings, Klein and the chances of a Beatles get-together. Andrew Tyler reports ...
Retrospective and Interview by Andria Lisle, Memphis Flyer, 3 May 2007
Stax artists weren't the only ones who wanted to record at Soulsville: Tales of the ones who got away and one who didn't. ...
Interview by Ann Moses, New Musical Express Annual, December 1966
When two Los Angeles security men guarded the Beatles during their last U.S. tour there were no reporters... no photographers. The Beatles never thought this story would be ...
Cannibal & The Headhunters: Land of 1000 Laughs
Interview by Ann Moses, Rhythm 'n' News, 10 September 1965
(Editor's note: This is the first of two parts dealing with Cannibal and the Headhunters — their group, their thoughts, their experiences as one of ...
Cannibal & The Headhunters: Beatles Threw Marbles, Pillows
Interview by Ann Moses, Rhythm 'n' News, 17 September 1965
"THERE WERE so many things that happened, I can hardly think of them all" reflected Yo Yo of Cannibal & The Headhunters. As we talked ...
Ken Mansfield on Capitol Records and the Beatles
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, 2015
INTERVIEWER'S NOTE: Ken Mansfield is a former Capitol executive and was the U.S. Manager of Apple Records. He was on the rooftop at Savile Row ...
Book Excerpt by Barney Hoskyns, 'Capitol 75' (Taschen), 2016
NOTE: Herewith the full "director's cut" version of the historical essay I contributed to the spectacularly lavish Taschen book marking the 75th anniversary of West ...
George Harrison: Harrison in the Haight
Retrospective by Ben Fong-Torres, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 December 2001
IT WOULD BE a stretch to say that George Harrison ever left his heart in San Francisco. ...
Such a Small Thing to Ask... But Bill Harry Tells How The Beatles can do an Old Friend a Favour
Report and Interview by Bill Harry, Record Mirror, 16 July 1966
AS FAR AS I'm concerned, JOHN, PAUL, GEORGE and RINGO are friends of mine. We've worked together and helped each other in the past and ...
Profile by Bill Harry, Mersey Beat, 1 August 1963
'Moody and Magnificent' they said — 'He was the Great Attraction'. Fans went wild over him. He was... The Other Beatle ...
Beatles' Triumphant Return Home
Report by Bill Harry, Mersey Beat, 16 July 1964
Liverpool Airport — 5pm ...
The Beatles, Mary Wells, Sounds Incorporated, Tommy Quickly: Apollo Theatre, Ardwick, Manchester
Live Review by Bill Harry, Mersey Beat, 22 October 1964
Beatles in Action ...
He May Be Sir Paul, But He's Still a Beatle
Interview by Bob Spitz, The New York Times, 25 May 1997
ON A RECENT afternoon in the kitchen of a quaint 17th-century mill house overlooking the English Channel, there was a sense of eventfulness. The room ...
Retrospective by Bob Stanley, The Times, 14 January 2003
As we bid farewell to Beatles Monthly, our writer discusses how fanzines come and go - but they have always been vital to the music. ...
The Beatles: The Beatles: The Authorised Biography, Hunter Davies
Book Review by Bob Woffinden, New Musical Express, 15 July 1978
FIRST PUBLISHED in 1968, Hunter Davies' official biography of The Beatles had just been reissued, for the most part in its entire, original form. ...
Obituary by Carol Clerk, Uncut, February 2002
'You know, life flows on within you and without you' George Harrison ...
Bud Shank: A Jazzman Speaks Out On The Beatles
Profile and Interview by Carol Deck, KRLA Beat, 19 February 1966
JAZZ. OF THAT word didn't scare you away and you're still reading, congratulations, you're among a maturing generation of pop fans whose world expands daily. ...
Beatle Wife Pattie Sets Up Shop...
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, 3 August 1968
PATTIE BOYD, a regular customer of the Chelsea Antique Market, changed sides of the counter last week when she opened her own stall there. ...
Interview by Caroline Boucher, The Observer, 23 March 1997
ONE OF the most famous album covers of all time is about to become the subject of bitter legal wrangling. Peter Blake, 64, designed the ...
The Beatles: Silly Charlie and the Not-So-Red-Hot Pepper
Essay by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 25 May 1974
Will Ringo get the mums? Can George hold the mystics? Who was the Walrus? Is Charles Shaar Murray a loony? Only the last question need ...
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, MOJO, December 2000
Does The Fabs' 'Best Of' Add Up? Packed 27-track single-disc summary of pop's best-loved repertoire, but no Please Please Me? Strawberry Fields Forever? Hello-o-o-o-o? ...
Interview by Chas de Whalley, International Musician & Recording World, January 1986
Ken Scott muses on his journey from Bowie to Kajagoogoo. Chas de Whalley listens attentively ...
Taylor of Savile Row: Derek Taylor, 1932-1997
Obituary by Chris Bourke, The New Zealand Herald, September 1997
DEREK TAYLOR, WHO will forever be known as "the Beatles' press officer", leant across and switched my tape recorder to "pause". I had just admitted ...
Two Encounters With Neil Aspinall
Memoir by Chris Charlesworth, Rock's Backpages, March 2008
RBP REGULARS will doubtless have read last week's obituaries for Neil Aspinall, who worked for the Beatles from 1961 until shortly before he died. He ...
Film/DVD/TV Review by Chris Charlesworth, Just Backdated, July 2019
A WORLD WITHOUT the Beatles is not somewhere I would want to live, but this is the unlikely scenario on which this strange, occasionally enjoyable ...
The Beatles: On Air – Live At The BBC Volume 2
Review by Chris Charlesworth, Just Backdated, 7 September 2014
WHAT DO Gwendolyn Hopkins of Nottingham, Diane and Jenny of Bedford, Jill, Janet, Mary, Brenda and Lynn from Wakefield, Carolyn Hill and Jane Richards from ...
Steve Turner: Beatles '66 – The Revolutionary Year
Book Review by Chris Charlesworth, Just Backdated, February 2017
"ED SHEERAN," screams the cover of this months GQ magazine. "How he became the biggest pop star on the planet." Not while Paul McCartney walks ...
The Untold Stories of Paul McCartney
Interview by Chris Heath, GQ, 11 September 2018
He's as famous and accomplished as a man can be. He could just stay home, relax, and count his money. But Paul McCartney is as ...
Review by Chris Ingham, MOJO, November 1996
"WHAT DO YOU THINK OF ALL THAT?" ENQUIRES PAUL McCartney after half a dozen silly-voice choruses of Why Dont We Do It In The Road. ...
The Beatles: Two Magical Mystery Tours
Report by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 23 September 1967
'Ringo stood on my foot,' said one girl helpfully. 'But I don't know where they've gone!' ...
The Beatles: Abbey Road (Apple)
Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 27 September 1969
Natural Born Beatles ...
Obituary by Chris Welch, The Independent, 9 September 1997
DEREK TAYLOR, the Beatles' press officer, brought calm, authority and a sense of dignity to the chaos of the '60s. As spokesman for the band ...
Obituary by Chris Welch, The Guardian, 1 December 2001
George Harrison, singer, guitarist, composer and filmproducer: born Liverpool 25 February 1943; MBE 1965; married1966 Pattie Boyd (marriage dissolved 1977), 1978 OliviaArias (one son); died ...
The Apple Scruffs: "We're waiting for The Beatles"
Retrospective by Cliff Jones, MOJO, October 1996
Spookily present wherever The Beatles went and finally immortalised in song by George, the Apple Scruffs bore a privileged witness to all the highs and ...
The Beatles: Let It Be...Naked
Review by Daryl Easlea, Record Collector, November 2003
IN THE permanently recycled world of Fabs folklore, Let It Be is always viewed as a missed opportunity. Planned to be a back-to-basics album and ...
Beatles Praise L.A.! Hull, Taylor Visiting Scene Of Beatle Movie
Report by Dave Hull, Derek Taylor, KRLA Beat, 10 March 1965
KRLA's Dave Hull and Derek Taylor are on Nassau, guests of the Beatles during filming of their second movie. Their reports and interviews are being ...
The Beatles: Hullabalooer and Ringo
Interview by Dave Hull, Derek Taylor, KRLA Beat, 31 March 1965
THE REPORT that the Beatles planned to name their second movie "Eight Days a Week" proved to be about 25 per cent correct. The first ...
George Harrison: Beatle Plans Revealed
Interview by Dave Hull, Derek Taylor, KRLA Beat, 7 April 1965
More of Hull-Taylor Interview Tells About Beatles' Life ...
John Lennon: Beatle Rumors Ended!
Interview by Dave Hull, Derek Taylor, KRLA Beat, 14 April 1965
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the third in a series of Beatle interviews by Dave Hull and Derek Taylor, who talked to John, Paul, George and ...
The Beatles: Let's Talk With Paul
Interview by Dave Hull, Derek Taylor, KRLA Beat, 21 April 1965
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the fourth in a series of Beatle interviews by Dave Hull and Derek Taylor, who talked to John, Paul, George and ...
Nice Country, We'll Take It: Beatlemania in America
Retrospective by Dave Marsh, MOJO, September 2004
40 years ago this month, the Beatles' first full tour of the States rewrote the rulebook of rock. Death threats and Dylan, music and meat-throwing: ...
Father-Figure Knows Best: Rock managers from Elvis to Elvis
Overview by Dave Marsh, Trouser Press, June 1980
EVER SINCE Col. Tom Parker, genius entrepreneur of Hadacol, dancing chickens and Eddy Arnold, signed Elvis Presley to an exclusive (on both parts) contract, managers ...
The Beatles: The Final Invasion
Retrospective by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 5 September 1986
Twenty-four thousand screaming fans couldn't be wrong. But what they didn't realise on that late August evening was that the Beatles didn't want to be ...
The Quarrymen — A Legend is Born
Retrospective by David Burke, Vintage Rock Presents The Beatles: The Early Years, 2022
"EVERYBODY WAS in a skiffle group," said George Harrison of the hep new craze that swept through Britain in 1956. ...
Retrospective by David Burke, Vintage Rock, Winter 2012
THE BEATLES may have come from Liverpool, England – but they were made in Hamburg, Germany. That, at least, is the view of Allan Williams, ...
Roy and the Boys: Roy Orbison and the Beatles On Tour
Retrospective and Interview by David Burke, Vintage Rock, 2017
PICTURE THE SCENE – Roy Orbison is at the back of the bus working on 'Oh, Pretty Woman', the song that would become his biggest ...
The Day the Angels Spent Christmas with the Beatles
Memoir by David Dalton, Gadfly, 12 December 2001
WELL, NO, IT'S NOT that kind of story, exactly, although given the fairytale element in the legend of the Fab Four you might, circa 1964, ...
Comment by David Dalton, Gadfly, 14 May 2001
"DADDY, TELL US how it all began, how the walls of Pepperland crumbled, how the Blue Meanies with their lawyers and chartered accounts came and ...
The Hamburg Scene: An NRM Special Report
Report and Interview by David Griffiths, Record Mirror, 6 April 1963
WHERE, WOULD you reckon, is the greatest training ground for British beat singers and groups? ...
The Beatles: Backstage at the London Palladium
Report and Interview by David Griffiths, Record Mirror, 21 December 1963
The Man Who Guides The Stars Behind The Scenes ...
Records of the Year: The Beatles, The Beach Boys
Review by David Griffiths, Record Mirror, 6 January 1968
The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band THIS ONE has historical value as a milestone in pop music, and in the art of recording, so ...
The Beatles: The Beatles (White Album) (Apple PCS 7067 & 8)
Review by David Griffiths, Record Mirror, 4 January 1969
LAST YEAR'S obvious standout LP was Sergeant Pepper and now we have its unbelievable, impossible, out-of-sight successor. It's no feat of critical perception to pick ...
Brian Epstein: 'I Knew They'd Be Bigger Than Elvis Presley...'
Interview by David Griffiths, Record Mirror, 4 September 1964
SAYS BRIAN EPSTEIN TO DAVID GRIFFITHS IN THE FIRST OF OUR NEW 'STARMAKERS' SERIES ...
Why the Beatles' Abbey Road reigns supreme 50 years on
Retrospective by David Hepworth, New Statesman, 9 October 2019
The interesting thing about the 1969 record is that it is bigger now than it was then. ...
Down in Deepest Beatle-land, All John Gets is Love
Report by David Hughes, Disc and Music Echo, 5 August 1967
DOWN IN the prosperous community of St. George's. Hill, Weybridge, in Surrey, something stirred. It wasn't a bird – it was a caravan, John Lennon's ...
Retrospective by David Stubbs, Uncut, November 2000
JANUARY 2, 1969. They are probably the four most famous people in the world, but this morning at the raw beginning of the last year ...
Once Upon a Time There Were Poor Beatles...
Interview by Dawn James, Rave, June 1965
Who became fantastically rich Beatles. Fabulously famous Beatles. Big-headed Beatles? Well, fairy tales are not all phoney, was this one? Rave asked longtime Beatle friend, ...
Beginning a new study of our four Beatles, M.B.E. First, this month — Profile on Paul
Profile and Interview by Dawn James, Rave, August 1965
PAUL McCARTNEY sat astride an antique chair, the gold of it touching his well-styled suit. He looked at home, relaxed and confident. His neat face ...
Comment by Dawn James, Rave, August 1965
WARMTH, TINGLE, love. Eyes that penetrate to the farthest seats in the theatre. Magnetism by a fragile body. A person, just like any other, only ...
Liverpool: News from the North
Report by Dawn James, Rave, November 1965
RAVE girl Dawn James pays a return visit to Liverpool, home of the Beatles, birthplace of the big British Pop Scene, and discovers some interesting ...
Comment by Dawn James, Rave, January 1966
JOHN, GEORGE, Paul and Ringo stood squashed together in an hotel corridor, besieged by people young and old. One of the younger ones screamed "aahh!," ...
Interview by Dawn James, Rave, June 1967
Fans make success for a pop star — more than money, more than influence, more than talent. But what are fans? Why do they remain ...
Report by Dawn James, Rave, March 1966
She was the model bride. He was the model husband. Why was it that they were meant for each other? ...
Paul McCartney: "Once There Was Away To Get Back Homeward..."
Interview by Deborah Frost, Record, September 1984
LONDON. IN A city where nearly every kid on the street looks like he's rushing off to audition for Duran Duran, Paul McCartney, dressed for ...
A Hard Day's Surfin' Safari: When Brian Met Macca
Memoir by Derek Taylor, World Countdown News, 1967
When Beatles press officer Derek Taylor swapped Swinging Britain for LA's Sunset Strip in 1965, he played a pivotal part in bringing the worlds of ...
Paul McCartney: Your Friendly Press Agent Knew That The Day Would Not Be Easy
Report by Derek Taylor, Record Mirror, 18 April 1970
DEREK TAYLOR, THE MAN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE McCARTNEY AFFAIR (AND WHAT BETTER PLACE TO BE?) TELLS THE INSIDE STORY ...
From Los Angeles, a warm story of how — A Beatle out of "prison" plays it cool with hippies
Report by Derek Taylor, Disc and Music Echo, 19 August 1967
DEREK TAYLOR reporting on George Harrison's American visit. GEORGE talks of the "magic of his beads". ...
Paul drops in at a Beach Boys recording session
Report by Derek Taylor, Disc and Music Echo, 22 April 1967
DEREK TAYLOR reporting from Hollywood on a meeting of the giants ...
Memoir by Derek Taylor, Disc and Music Echo, 9 September 1967
Derek Taylor — Disc Hollywood writer, was Beatles press officer before leaving for America to work with the Beach Boys, Byrds and other top groups. ...
Apple: 1988 — A Year For Nostalgia
Memoir by Derek Taylor, Hit Parader, March 1969
IT WAS GOOD then, good when we were young then, when we were new and The Apple was fresh and the other apples, wrinkling and ...
The Beatles: Making A Gold Record
Report by Derek Taylor, KRLA Beat, 5 May 1965
ST. JOHN'S WOOD is very much London. Solid and a little old. But nice and comfortable, and not yet shabby. The buildings have dignity and ...
Memoir by Derek Taylor, KRLA Beat, 12 May 1965
Liverpool 4 Here In August ...
Derek Taylor's Life With The Beatles
Memoir by Derek Taylor, KRLA Beat, 9 June 1965
Recalls First Meeting When He Marveled At Their Magnetism ...
Derek Taylor Recalls Early Beatle Appeal
Memoir by Derek Taylor, KRLA Beat, 16 June 1965
(Editor's note: Last week Derek Taylor began the story of his association with the Beatles. He told of attending a concert in which he first ...
Derek Taylor: My Life With The Beatles — Beatlemania Grips England
Memoir by Derek Taylor, KRLA Beat, 23 June 1965
(Editor's Note: This is the third and concluding installment of Derek Taylor's life with the Beatles, first as a newspaperman covering their exciting rise to ...
More Than Words: Musings on Music Journalism — Life Goes On
Comment by Devon Powers, PopMatters, 10 March 2004
FEBRUARY 24 WAS a banner day for the Copy Left, a loose network of computer activists, intellectuals, forward-thinking musicians and zealous fans who continue to ...
Undercurrents #7: Fables of the Deconstruction
Retrospective by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, July 1999
In the latest in our series uncovering the hidden wiring of 20th century music, Edwin Pouncey shows how rock 'n' roll's face was changed forever ...
Tony Barrow: Beatles Confidant Offers Glimpse Inside Mania
Report and Interview by Frank Tortorici, sonicnet.com, 29 March 1999
Publicist Tony Barrow was there for the "We're more popular than Jesus" and "Paul is dead" crises. ...
The Beatles: Gary Pig Gold Presents A Fab Forty
Guide by Gary Pig Gold, fufkin.com, February 2004
HAS IT REALLY been four decades already since television's greatest-ever talent scout took a chance on a brash young musical novelty act from far-off Britain? ...
Al Aronowitz: The Man Who Invented the '60s
Profile and Interview by Gary Pig Gold, Cosmik Debris, October 2004
Gary "Pig" Gold meets the Man Who Invented the Sixties. ...
Retrospective by Gary Pig Gold, earcandymag.com, 14 January 2021
BEING EIGHT YEARS old in the Toronto suburbs of 1963, I was at the perfect age – and in the perfect place – to, yes, ...
Where Were You In '62? Pop's last pre-Beatle year flowed with undercurrents and hinted at the future
Memoir by Gene Sculatti, Rock's Backpages, 29 August 2012
IT WAS 50 YEARS ago today, more or less. I was in the car with my parents, somewhere in Oregon, en route from our home ...
20 Revolutionary Singles, as requested
Letter by Geoffrey Cannon, unpublished, 28 October 1968
25 FLORENCE TERRACE, FALMOUTH, CORNWALL TELEPHONE: FALMOUTH 1840 23rd October 1968 ...
Essay by Geoffrey Cannon, The Partisan Review, Spring 1969
Update, 2020: Here is how I came to write the essay below on the Beatles and the Stones for the US intellectual quarterly Partisan Review ...
Profile by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 1 May 1972
Author's update, 2019. "The Manchester Guardian? That's the best fuckin' newspaper in the world!" So David Crosby told me in early 1969. He had answered ...
The Beatles: Abbey Road (Apple)
Review by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 8 October 1969
Abbey Road backtrack ...
The Beatles: Too Big For The Band?
Comment by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 25 February 1969
MARY HOPKIN, the film music for Yellow Submarine and Wonderwall, and the Two Virgins album, were all made by Beatles. But they have no other ...
Back with the real Beatles: The Beatles (White Album) (Apple)
Review by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 19 November 1968
The Beatles' new album is about to be released. This is the first of two articles on what is likely to be the biggest event ...
Back to Spring: The Beatles: The Beatles (White Album) (Apple)
Review by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 26 November 1968
"EARTH, WATER, fire, and air met together in a garden fair," chants Robin Williamson, of the Incredible String Band, in 'Koeeoaadi There'. And if the ...
Ringo Stars: Geoffrey Cannon on the Beatles' Solo Albums
Review by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 19 December 1970
Ringo Starr: Beaucoups of Blues; Paul McCartney: McCartney; John Lennon: John Lennon Plastic Ono Band; George Harrison: All Things Must Pass ...
Essay by Geoffrey Cannon, New Society, 3 December 1964
Author's note, 2018: Here is my late 1964 insight on the transformation of British pop into rock which can be dated to 21 February 1963 ...
Retrospective and Interview by Gillian G. Gaar, Goldmine, 25 November 1994
ON DECEMBER 27, 1960, the Beatles appeared at the Litherland Town Hall Ballroom in Liverpool in a performance widely regarded as being a turning point ...
Mark Lewisohn: Why I can't just ...Let It Be!
Interview by Graeme Thomson, Mail On Sunday, 13 July 2019
The world's foremost authority on the Beatles, Mark Lewisohn, reveals why he'll stop at nothing to complete his definitive history of the band. ...
Overview by Graeme Thomson, The Word, March 2012
Because sometimes the only way musicians can actually talk to each other is by writing songs ...
Backbeat and The Beatles Industry
Report and Interview by Graham Reid, The New Zealand Herald, May 1994
HIS LETTERS back home don't tell the whole story. But such letters seldom do. He says there are plenty of girls "but none of us ...
Profile and Interview by Graham Reid, The New Zealand Herald, 1994
AT 55, ASTRID Kirchherr still loves rock music and listens to it every day: The Beatles, the Doors, Bowie... "and Prince, he's such a genius ...
Retrospective by Harold Bronson, Rock's Backpages, April 2017
THIS YEAR THERE have been more events to celebrate the rock music of the 1960s than in any previous one, and it's still only April. ...
Retrospective by Harry Shapiro, MOJO, Summer 2007
Hippies tripped, tabloids raged and police cheered as Engelbert Humperdinck's Jan '67 hit, 'Release Me' became the real theme tune for the Summer of Love. ...
Retrospective by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, December 2015
"Rubber Soul was the album that changed the musical world we lived in then to the one we still live in today." (Andrew Loog Oldham) ...
It was 60 years ago today: the Beatles invade North America
Retrospective by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, February 2024
I HAD SEEN and heard the Beatles mentioned in a Walter Cronkite CBS news television program in December 1963, one of the first times they ...
Top Acts Explain The Beat-Boom
Interview by Ian Dove, New Musical Express, 3 May 1963
IAN DOVE quizzes SHADOWS, TORNADOS, BEATLES, JET & TONY, and GERRY & PACEMAKERS ...
The blazing talent – and heartbreaking decline – of "fifth Beatle" Billy Preston
Retrospective by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 26 November 2021
The revered keyboardist saved Let It Be and put his fingerprints on countless rock classics. But he kept his true self hidden to the end. ...
Is Natty Dread better than Sgt. Pepper?
Essay by Idris Walters, Sounds, 24 May 1975
It doesn't matter, says IDRIS WALTERS. Rock's big enough, and the WAILERS are making waves... ...
Marshall Crenshaw's Incredible Simulators: B.B. Kings, New York
Live Review by Iman Lababedi, RockNYC, 6 January 2013
IN 1978, Marshall Crenshaw played John Lennon to Glen Burtnik's Paul McCartney in the touring company of Beatlemania. 35 years later the two men were ...
John Lennon: The Beatle in exile
Interview by Ivor Davis, Daily Express, 17 November 1973
PHOTONEWS with the full version of John Lennon's blues... and his song of love ...
Report by Ivor Davis, Daily Express, 31 August 1964
From IVOR DAVIS Atlantic City, Sunday ...
John Lennon 1940-1980: Nothing To Do To Save His Life
Obituary by J. Kordosh, Creem, March 1981
"...Laurel and Hardy, that's John and Yoko. And we stand a better chance under that guise 'cause all the serious people like Martin Luther King ...
Fab! Gear! The George Harrison Interview (part 1)
Interview by J. Kordosh, Creem, December 1987
IN A PLUSH Warner Bros, office, Bill Holdship and I listened to George Harrison's first album in over five years, Cloud Nine. "I wracked my brains ...
Fab! Gear! The George Harrison Interview (part 2)
Interview by J. Kordosh, Creem, January 1988
DID YOU ever see that show in London: John, Paul, George, Ringo & Bert? ...
Richard Russell: Rich Pickings
Interview by Jamie Atkins, Record Collector, March 2018
As Richard Russell's collaborative album, Everything Is Recorded, is released, RC's Jamie Atkins meets him to talk about the recording and the music that led ...
The Beatles: Live At The Hollywood Bowl (Apple/EMI)
Review by Jamie Atkins, Record Collector, October 2016
THE BEATLES AT The Hollywood Bowl was always the last to be picked in a quick Beatles LPs jumpers-for-goalposts knockabout – the only snotty-nosed, clod-humper ...
Interview by Jamie McCluskey III, KRLA Beat, 10 September 1966
THE MEETING of the Century has finally taken place. Yes, the Large Bird from America has finally made contact with the Chief Beatle of Blightyland ...
Report by Jean Carol, Disc, 17 August 1963
JEAN CAROL finds out what it is really like. ...
Beatles Find Show Biz Isn't All Fun
Interview by Jean Carol, Disc, 24 November 1962
THE BEATLES, newest British group to join the ever-growing list of outfits to challenge the Shadows, dropped into the DISC office just about 12 hours ...
John Lennon: El's Still The King — But He's Got To Watch It!
Interview by Jean Carol, Disc, 6 July 1963
That 'I don't like Presley' remark on Juke Box Jury has caused an uproar, but JOHN LENNON is sticking to what he said.... ...
Produced by George Martin is a must see, especially on his 87th birthday
Review by Jeff Slate, Examiner.com, 3 January 2013
I WAS LUCKY to meet George Martin, who turns 87 today, on two occasions. The first was at the recording session for the original cast ...
Geoff Emerick: Recording the Beatles
Interview by Jeff Slate, Tape Op, January 2007
I'D COME TO A midtown Manhattan law office to meet Geoff Emerick, the infamous engineer on most of the significant recordings by the Beatles, to ...
The Moment: 25 Years of Rock Photography
Book Excerpt by Jill Furmanovsky, 'The Moment' (Paper Tiger), 1995
A Beatles fan MY FIRST ROCK picture, taken circa 1967 on an instamatic camera, was of Paul McCartney with two of my school friends outside his ...
Interview by Jim Irvin, MOJO, January 2007
THE PENTHOUSE mixing room at the top of Abbey Road Studios. We await Sir George Martin, who is 30 minutes late. "This is most unlike ...
Retrospective and Interview by Jim Irvin, MOJO, January 2007
THE RECORD ALWAYS regarded as a harbinger of pop's future is full of old-fashioned sounds. These are, in order of appearance: a theatre orchestra tuning ...
Retrospective by Jim Irvin, MOJO, November 2002
THERE'S A story, probably apocryphal, concerning John Lennon during his infamous 'lost weekend', the period in the mid-'70s when he split from Yoko and devoted ...
The Beatles: Love (Apple)*****
Review and Interview by Jim Irvin, MOJO, December 2006
WE'RE NOT unsympathetic to readers who complain of Beatles fatigue, but we reserve the right to counsel: "Deal with it", because for a large section ...
Essay by Jim Irvin, MOJO, Summer 2005
IT WAS APRIL 1967, the morning after The Beatles had completed Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and The Zombies walked into Abbey Road Studios ...
Get It Better: The Story of Let It Be… Naked
Report and Interview by Jim Irvin, MOJO, 2003
Is it getting back to 'Get Back'? Is it Let It Be exorcised of Spector? Is it the record it always should have been? ...
Interview by Jim Irvin, MOJO, October 1999
THE LURE had been the chance of a lengthy one-on-one with Paul McCartney discussing all his solo albums. "You could turn it into a book," ...
Once-cool songs now politically incorrect
Comment by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 9 January 1992
IT'S TIME TO re-evaluate that good ol' time rock 'n' roll. Or, as you may discover, not so good ol' time rock 'n' roll. ...
The Man Who Killed Paul McCartney
Retrospective by Jim Yoakum, unpublished, 2001
The incredible, never-before-revealed true-life event that sparked the greatest rock n roll rumor of all time. ...
Arise, Sir George: The Man Behind the Beatles
Interview by Joe Matera, Mixdown, 2002
BEST KNOWN as the man who produced the Beatles, Sir George Martin was there at the beginning of the British pop revolution and went on ...
The Beatles and Astrid Kirchherr: They Loved Stu Yeah Yeah Yeah
Report and Interview by John Harris, New Musical Express, 2 April 1994
They weren't always old men owning half of Scotland and giving all their money to spiritual motor racing gurus. On the eve of a Beatles ...
Mistakes And All: Recreating The Fab Four in Beatlemania
Report and Interview by John Mendelsohn, Los Angeles Times, 9 April 1978
IF THE FOUR young musicians who portray the Beatles in Beatlemania deliver anything less than the "incredible simulation" a sign in the Shubert Theater ticket ...
Beatlemania’s Boys in the Band
Report and Interview by John Mendelsohn, Rolling Stone, 18 May 1978
JOE PECORINO, A small, affable young man who earns his living by pretending to be John Lennon in the successful stage production, Beatlemania, denies that ...
The Beatles: Let It Be (Apple)
Review by John Mendelsohn, Rolling Stone, 11 June 1970
TO THOSE WHO found their work since the White Album as emotionally vapid as it was technically breathtaking, the news that the Beatles were about ...
The Beatles: Abbey Road (Apple)
Review by John Mendelssohn, Rolling Stone, 15 November 1969
SIMPLY, SIDE TWO does more for me than the whole of Sgt. Pepper, and I'll trade you The Beatles and Magical Mystery Tour and a ...
Essay by John Mendelssohn, Musician, April 1992
Band names have mirrored the aspirations and excesses of the times. A definitive field guide to the epic trends and gonzo greats of rock nomenclature. ...
Essay by John Sinclair, Ann Arbor Argus, 24 January 1969
I KNOW YOU'RE tired of hearing all the bullshit about the Beatles and all, but there are things going on that nobody seems to be ...
George Martin: From Comedy Records To Rock Classics
Profile by John Tobler, The History of Rock, 1982
While the man himself might deny it with typical modesty, there's little doubt that George Martin is one of the most celebrated record producers of ...
Retrospective by Johnny Black, Blender, May 2002
RELEASED: 19 April 1965 (US) HIGHEST CHART POSITION: 1 ...
John Lennon: From the Quarrymen to the MBE
Retrospective by Johnny Black, MOJO, October 2000
"THAT WAS THE day," said John Lennon. "The day that I met Paul, that it started moving." ...
The Beatles: Don't Fear The Reeperbahn
Retrospective by Johnny Black, 'The Beatles: Ten Years that Shook the World', 2004
"LIVERPOOL AND HAMBURG had a lot in common in the early sixties," muses Gibson Kemp. "They're both seaports, they're both on the same line of ...
Report by Jon Savage, The Observer, 10 June 2012
It's the world's most famous studio and everyone from Edward Elgar to Ella Fitzgerald – and, of course, the Beatles – has made music there. ...
Review by Jon Savage, MOJO, January 1995
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS on from their demise, The Beatles continue to exercise a hypnotic spell as the ur-myth of modernist pop culture. As befits the group ...
Review by Jon Savage, MOJO, November 1995
Behind every great Beatles track is a version not quite so good. But not necessarily less interesting... Jon Savage listens to the outtakes. ...
Derek Taylor: The Fifth Beatle
Retrospective by Jon Savage, GQ, 20 May 2018
He was the proto multi-hyphenate, serving as press officer, PA and confidante to the Beatles while still finding time to master journalism, launch the Byrds, ...
Retrospective by Jon Savage, The Guardian, 18 December 1998
Jon Savage describes how Brian Epstein fell victim to drugs and the pressures of being a secret homosexual. ...
Overview by Jon Savage, The Guardian, 31 January 1997
Hey man — it's time to beat that cosmic tabla and slap on a droning tape loop. Drug-infused psychedelia, says Jon Savage, never went away ...
Pointing Pistols at the throne
Essay by Jon Savage, The Guardian, 2 June 1993
There is something Rotten in the state of England. Republicanism is emerging as an option even for Tory meritocrats — thanks to the punk's subversiveness ...
Manna for Fans: The history of the hidden track in music
Retrospective by Jude Rogers, The Guardian, 25 January 2015
From inner groove loops to absurd backmasking, artists have long found ways to embed secret songs, cryptic writings and coded messages in their albums. ...
You Never Give Me Your Money: The Battle For The Soul Of The Beatles by Peter Doggett
Book Review by Jude Rogers, New Statesman, 8 October 2009
BY NOW all of us should have recovered from our latest dose of Beatlemania, occasioned by the release of the Beatles' remastered back catalogue on ...
Four Who Dared : Backstage With the Beatles on Their Last Tour
Retrospective by Judith Sims, Los Angeles Times, 3 August 1986
Twenty years ago this month, the Beatles, on their third American tour, staged 18 concerts in 14 cities and played to more than 450,000 screaming ...
The Beatles: Shea Stadium, Queens, New York NY
Live Review by June Harris, New Musical Express, 26 August 1966
THE BEATLES THRILL 45,000 AT SHEA'S ...
Beatle Bravery Worth More Than Money
Interview by June Harris, New Musical Express, 2 September 1966
A FEW days after the tornado, we're still recovering from the Beatles visit! The concert is over, and so is the tour. The amount the ...
The Beatles, Roy Orbison, Gerry & the Pacemakers: Adelphi, Slough
Live Review by June Harris, Disc, 25 May 1963
Beatles-Roy Orbison tour is a sensation! ...
The Beatles did it on an LP, now the Isley Brothers and Tremeloes make the 30
Profile and Interview by June Harris, Disc, 6 July 1963
THERE ARE very few way-out, wild rhythm and blues numbers which hit the British charts. 'Twist And Shout' by The Isley Brothers is one of ...
The Beatles: Worried About That American Trip? Not Us, Say John and George
Report and Interview by June Harris, Disc, 8 February 1964
TOMORROW (Friday) is B-Day in New York. And in New York. The Beatles mean big business! They will arrive at 1.40 p.m. to be met ...
...Disaster nearly struck The Beatles!
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 25 May 1963
Back from their holiday in the Canary Isles, the boys tell of the moment when... ...
Merseyside Beat Pays Off At Last!
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 23 March 1963
IT'S ALL happening up in Liverpool! First The Beatles, now Gerry and the Pacemakers and in a few weeks time, who knows? The music the ...
Chart Chatter by June Harris: Frank Ifield Just Had To Hit That Top Spot!
Report by June Harris, Disc, 10 November 1962
THERE'LL BE no stopping Frank Ifield now! It HAD to happen that 'Lovesick Blues' would hit number one, and establish the Australian as our leading ...
The Beatles: Liverpool Group Takes Britain by Storm
Profile by June Harris, Disc, 9 February 1963
LAST WEEK Brian Matthew described The Beatles as "the most original musical and visual sensation since The Shadows." And the off-beat writings of leader John ...
Paris Prepares For That Beatle Invasion
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 21 December 1963
June Harris talks to Jo Bergman of the Beatles Press office, just back from Paris ...
Beatles Head For No.1 In U.S.!
Report by June Harris, Disc, 18 January 1964
THE BEATLES' 'I Want To Hold Your Hand' is heading straight for the Number One spot in the American 100! Last Friday the record soared ...
Beatles Recover From That Fantastic EP
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 17 July 1963
JOHN LENNON removed his black rimmed glasses and wiped the steam off with his tie. The other three Beatles hunted blindly for chairs, dropped in ...
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 21 December 1963
Nobody can look back on 1963 with more satisfaction than The Beatles. In the last 12 months they've caused riots at the Royal Variety Performance, ...
The Beatles: Yes, It's All So Different Now, Says John
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 21 December 1963
JOHN LENNON was the first to enter the Southend Odeon. He strolled across the stage looking very un-Beatlish in a suede cap and huge dark ...
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 21 December 1963
This year has been just fantastic, but despite what the pessimists say, the next 12 months could be even bigger for the Beatles. Nobody can look ...
Beatles: Yes, It's All So Different Now, Says John
Report and Interview by June Harris, Disc, 21 December 1963
JOHN LENNON was the first to enter the Southend Odeon. He strolled across the stage looking very un-Beatlish in a suede cap and huge dark ...
Beatles Booked for U.S. Carnegie Hall
Report by June Harris, Disc, 25 January 1964
THE INCREDIBLE, unbeatable, fab Beatles! There's no stopping them! Now... a bill-topping Carnegie Hall concert... U.S. tour offers pouring into Brian Epstein's office... more American ...
The Beatles: Hope You Do Enjoy The Show
Interview by Keith Altham, Hit Parader Yearbook, Winter 1967
DESPITE THEIR flamboyant appearance, the Beatles are still the same, sane, straightforward people they were four years ago. Their opinions and beliefs are the same, ...
John Lennon: Happy Birthday to the Head Beatle
Interview by Keith Altham, Fabulous, 10 October 1964
Although The Beatles have never officially had a leader, John Lennon has always been regarded as Beatle-boss because of his major role in their success. ...
Sshhh!!!!! Silence!!! Lights!!! Camera!!! Action!!! It's Those Beatles!
Report and Interview by Keith Altham, Fabulous, 16 May 1964
BEATLES HERE. Beatles there. Beatles tearing about everywhere, down at Twickenham film studios. I didn't expect any of them to have time for a chat, ...
The Beatles: The One Who Got Away
Interview by Keith Altham, Fabulous, 15 February 1964
PETE BEST is the Beatle who got away. The drummer who was replaced by Ringo Starr just before the boys hit the big time. What ...
Livin' Eatin' Breathin' Beatles Film!
Interview by Keith Altham, Fabulous, 7 March 1964
THE VERY LATEST INFO ON THE FAB FOUR'S FIRST FILM BY KEITH ALTHAM ...
Wild Richmond Festival — and Meeting Two Unexpected Guests
Live Review by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 13 August 1965
FROM A STEEL tower out in the middle of Richmond Athletic Ground the anxious voice of an American cameraman crackled through a walkie-talkie set held ...
Maharishi links Beatles and Beach Boys
Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 6 April 1968
NME helps find World Peace venue ...
All About The World's Greatest Pop Show: 1966 NME Concert Mightiest Ever!
Live Review by Keith Altham, Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 6 May 1966
THOUSANDS upon thousands of fans converging on the massive Wembley Empire Pool for the biggest pop show in the world on Sunday... the staggering, the ...
The Beatles, The Rolling Stones et al: NME Poll Winners' Concert, Empire Pool, Wembley, London
Live Review by Keith Altham, Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 16 April 1965
IT WAS THE GREATEST POP SHOW ON EARTH ...
Interview by Keith Matthews, Record Mirror, 14 November 1964
ALTHOUGH the Beatles are continually quoted and misquoted, interpreted and misinterpreted, they don't really mind what is said about them. ...
Klaus Voorman: Klaus Must Choose
Interview by Kevin Swift, Beat Instrumental, May 1967
"I ENJOY my life in music", said Klaus Voorman, opening a discussion on his dual-talent career. He's a brilliant artist, an outstanding musician. How does ...
Interview by Kevin Swift, Beat Instrumental, August 1966
UNTIL RECENTLY the name Norman Smith was synonymous with the Beatles, Cilla Black, Manfred Mann and many other famous recording names. He was the sound ...
Kenny Lynch: Nothing But The Real Thing
Sleeve notes by Kieron Tyler, RPM Records, September 2004
KENNY LYNCH HAS been at the heart of British showbusiness over 40 years. Whether he's acting, writing for light entertainment or drama, singing, performing comedy ...
The Beatles: A Hard Day's Documentary: You Can't Do That! The Making of A Hard Day's Night
Retrospective by Kirk Silsbee, Los Angeles Reader, 3 March 1995
FILM CRITIC Roger Ebert ranks it "among the five best musicals I've ever seen." Andrew Sarris dubbed it "the Citizen Kane of jukebox movies." ...
Review by Kit Aiken, Uncut, December 2003
The Beatles' 1969 back-to-basics project remade. In other words: de-Spectorised, remixed, re-sequenced. ...
Interview: Cousin Brucie Morrow
Interview by Larry LeBlanc, Celebrity Access, 6 February 2020
IT'S THE PERFECT American fantasy of the '60s. Riding in a Mustang down a rural stretch of highway to the strains of the car radio ...
The Top 10 Psychedelic Moments in Rock
Comment by Lenny Kaye, Harp, May 2005
Mind expansion. The walls are breathing. Herewith, a personal list of a trip into the whirlpool of creation. ...
Psychedelics: That's The New Fad
Report by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 17 July 1966
The Pop movement has become old-hat now. In its place a brand new gimmick has started to sweep American discotheques. ...
Agnew urges curbs on "brainwashing" lyrics
Report by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 16 September 1970
NEW YORK, Tuesday. — The Vice-President, Mr Spiro Agnew, last night accused some songwriters and motion picture makers of "brainwashing" young Americans with lyrics and ...
Allen Ginsberg: Poet Who Swam in the Ganges — And Started Something
Report by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 10 September 1967
NEWS THAT the Beatles were flying to India for two months in October, that they were giving up drugs and taking up Indian mysticism may ...
Yellow Submarine (King Features/Apple Corps, Dir. George Dunning)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Lita Eliscu, East Village Other, 15 November 1968
YELLOW SUBMARINE is the full-length cartoon made on the basis of the Beatle's Sgt. Peppers' album, and as the story goes, the Beatles wanted nothing ...
The Beatles: Abbey Road (Apple Stereo PCS 7088)
Review by Lon Goddard, Record Mirror, 27 September 1969
John Lennon: "you can feel his disease..." Strange lyrics from Beatles ABBEY ROAD album... ...
Ringo's Agenda: Movie, Music, But No Beatles
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Rolling Stone, 23 May 1974
LOS ANGELES — "No, it's not getting back together, I promise you, not this year, folks," said Ringo Starr, who should know whether "it," the ...
The Beatles: Four Smiling, Tired Guys Talk About Their Music
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 19 August 1966
THEY'RE REAL. The Beatles, that is. I had never seen them in the flesh before, so I expected some kind of supermen to step out ...
Now Only Beatle Left — What Will Happen To Paul?
Comment by Louise Criscione, KRLA Beat, 12 March 1966
AND NOW there is only one — unmarried Beatle, that is. What will become of Paul McCartney now that he is the sole eligible (?) ...
A Beatles Press Conference — What's It Like?
Report by Louise Criscione, KRLA Beat, 25 September 1965
LET'S GO SEE... with Louise Criscione ...
Report by Louise Criscione, KRLA Beat, 24 September 1966
I RATHER THINK the Beatles are currently enjoying a two-sided love affair with California. Even when the "Jesus-Lennon" controversy was enjoying its peak and the ...
Guide by Loyd Grossman, Fusion, 20 February 1970
The Beatles – do you still want to know what they're up to? Even if, sub specie aeternitatis, it's, like, nothing? Well, go ahead, indulge ...
Don Was & Glyn Johns: Speaking for the Record
Interview by Mark Rowland, Musician, August 1994
From Get Back to Backbeat Glyn Johns and Don Was Have Produced a Rock 'n'Roll Hall of Fame. ...
Retrospective by Mark Rozzo, The New York Times, 2 September 2011
ON SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1963, the Beatles played Memorial Hall in Northwich, England — the concert poster described them as "Hit recorders of 'Please, Please ...
Retrospective by Mark Rozzo, The New York Times, 25 March 2011
IN APRIL OF 1961, an English art-school screw-up and musician named John Lennon stepped into a doorway in the St. Pauli neighborhood of Hamburg, Germany, ...
Revolutionaries, Eight Days a Week: New Beatles books
Book Review by Mark Rozzo, Los Angeles Review of Books, 4 December 2005
IN THE LATE summer of 1963, with Beatlemania sweeping into every corner of the British Isles, a reporter approached Paul McCartney for his thoughts on, ...
Book Excerpt by Mark Shipper, Paperback Writer (New English Library), 1978
THE FIRST few months of 1966 were pleasant ones for the Beatles. Meat The Beatles remained at the top of the charts all over the ...
The Birth of Beatlemania: The Fab Four on Tour, 1963
Book Excerpt by Martin Creasy, 'Beatlemania!' (Omnibus), March 2011
NOTE: Martin Creasy spent two years tracing the trajectory of the Beatles' UK tours, interviewing scores of people who in some way connected with John, ...
Paperback Writer: A New History Of The Beatles by Mark Shipper (Marship Publications)
Book Review by Marty Cerf, Phonograph Record, June 1977
BEATLEFICTION. It's so simple so obvious, it's amazing no one's thought of it till now. What, short of the re-grouped Beatles, could be more logical ...
The Beatles: "We're a damn good little band"
Interview by Mat Snow, MOJO, October 1996
On the eve of the release of Anthology 3, Paul McCartney casts his mind back to The Beatles' glorious sunset. * ...
Review by Mat Snow, MOJO, January 1996
ANTHOLOGY IS RIGHT. HERE IS A SEQUENCE of snap shots that just so happen to have been taken in the six years from 1958's toddling ...
Backbeat: A Bit Of Slap And A Wig
Report and Interview by Mat Snow, Q, May 1994
Backbeat, the much-trumpeted, unauthorised Beatles biopic with the grunge-pedigree soundtrack, est arrivé. It revolves around the tragic story of original bassist Stu Sutcliffe, who died ...
Book Review by Mat Snow, Q, April 1990
THERE'S A NEW story about The Beatles, and it was told by Pete Best, the drummer famous for getting sacked. ...
How the Frenzied, Furry Beatles Took Over England
Profile by Maureen Cleave, The San Francisco Examiner, 2 February 1964
'We Are Our Friends, Pals And Buddies' ...
The Year of the Beatles, part one
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 17 October 1963
AS THEY MAKE THE ROYAL SHOW: A STUDY OF HOW THEY DID IT ...
Part II Of "The Year of the Beatles": This is where the 'O' level world becomes Rock...
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 18 October 1963
WHAT DISTINGUISHES the Beatles and the Liverpool Movement from the rest is their self-confidence. ...
Part III Of 'The Year Of The Beatles': It's Like Living It Up With Four Marx Brothers
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 19 October 1963
EACH BEATLE differs so much from the other Beatles that it's odd they get on so well together. They like each other best. "We are ...
It's a keen pad... Cyril Lord could make a fortune in this place, say the Beatles
Report by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 26 October 1965
THE BEATLES went to Buckingham Palace this morning to see the Queen. The occasion was the presentation of their MBEs. But the confrontation was inevitable, ...
Beatles' Wisecracks Win the Day
Report by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 11 February 1964
NEW YORK, Tuesday. — The American Press had a go at the Beatles yesterday. They stayed with them from ten in the morning until seven ...
The Great American Love Affair with the Beatles
Report by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 12 February 1964
From MAUREEN CLEAVE: Washington, Wednesday ...
Report by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 13 February 1964
THINGS ARE really getting beyond a joke. The Beatles arrived back in New York from Washington yesterday afternoon and were marooned for three-quarters of an ...
The Beatles: I Love Them All, Says Ringo
Report and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 22 February 1964
THERE WERE 8000 on the roof. A thousand running through the building. And police galore. ...
Beatles look at New York — from behind barricades
Report by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 8 February 1964
AND THEY'RE JUST POTTY WITH JOY ...
Beatles Panned By U.S. Critics
Report by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 10 February 1964
But they wow TV audience and bring out mounted police ...
The Beatles: Help! (Parlophone PMC 1155)
Review by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 14 August 1965
SMALL WONDER the Americans pressed a million copies of this LP before they released it. Seven of the 11 new songs are what I can ...
The Beatles: George, M.B.E., Always Knew...
Comment by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 12 June 1965
SO THE Beatles have the MBE; they may be pleased but I doubt whether they're surprised. If they'd been made dukes I doubt whether they ...
The Beatles: Beatles For Sale (Parlophone)
Review by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 28 November 1964
BEAUTIFUL BEATLES ...
The Beatles: 'Paperback Writer'/'Rain' (Parlophone)
Review by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 11 June 1966
IT'S HARD to know what to say about either of these songs. One thing is certain: Ella Fitzgerald and all the gang of real singers ...
The Beatles: Revolver (Parlophone PMC 7009)
Review by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 30 July 1966
THIS COMES out next Friday. The cover shows the Beatles with huge heads of Beardsley hair and little photographs of themselves propped up on the ...
How that lucky Mr. Epstein got a head's start with the Beatles
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 27 April 1963
IT WOULDN'T be difficult to be exceedingly jealous of Brian Epstein. In fact, I should think a lot of people are — managers particularly. ...
Why The Beatles Create All That Frenzy
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 2 February 1963
THE BEATLES are the darlings of Merseyside. The little girls of Merseyside are so fiercely possessive about their Beatles that they forced Granada to put ...
How A Beatle Lives, No. 4: Paul All Alone: Running Hard To Catch Up With The Music
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 25 March 1966
THE SCENE SHIFTS FROM WEYBRIDGE TO LONDON ...
How a Beatle Lives, Part 2: Ringo Starr — So Who's Afraid of Dogs and Babies! (Especially Babies)
Report and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 11 March 1966
RINGO LIVES in Weybridge at the bottom of the hill of which John lives on top. His house, too, is large and Tudor-ish. It has ...
How A Beatle Lives Part 3: George Harrison — Avocado With Everything…
Report and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 18 March 1966
GEORGE HARRISON is 23, the youngest Beatle and the least well-known. He isn't one of the two who sing and he isn't Ringo; indeed some ...
Brian Epstein: The Man Behind The Beatles And How He Lives
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 1 April 1966
Many theories developed about Brian Epstein: he was crooked, he was straight; he was a tough businessman, he was a lousy businessman; it was all ...
How Does a Beatle Live? John Lennon
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 4 March 1966
ON A HILL IN SURREY... A YOUNG MAN, FAMOUS, LOADED AND WAITING FOR SOMETHING ...
My Missing Years, by Freddie Lennon, John Lennon's Father
Interview by Maureen O'Grady, Rave, February 1966
For eighteen years Freddie Lennon vanished. From the time he was six until he was twenty-four John heard nothing from him. When he returned he ...
Report by Maureen O'Grady, Rave, September 1967
What do flowers mean to you? To the Flower People (the Gentle People, the Beautiful People) they signify love, freedom, goodness, fun and new experiences. ...
Paul: Secrets of the New Beatle Film
Interview by Maureen O'Grady, Rave, December 1965
Another RAVE exclusive! RAVE reporter Maureen O'Grady finds out the latest news about the next Beatle film, straight from Paul himself in this personal interview. ...
Lennon and McCartney: Songwriters — A Portrait from 1966
Interview by Michael Lydon, unpublished, March 1966
Just after the release of Rubber Soul, I had the chance to meet John Lennon and Paul McCartney in London, and I conducted in-depth interviews ...
The Beatles & Me: An Era Dribbles On...
Memoir by Michael Lydon, The Boston Globe, 9 July 1972
ELK, CALIF. — Letter in the mail: Globe editor hopes I'll fill his "bathtub of an idea," What Impact Did The Beatles Have On Your ...
Essay by Michael Lydon, Yale Daily News, 20 February 1964
NOTE: When the Beatles hit America in the winter of 1964, the event created a tidal wave in pop music that swept all before it. ...
You say you don't want a 'Revolution 9'
Book Excerpt by Michel Faber, 'Listen: On Music, Sound and Us' (Canongate), November 2023
In this excerpt from "The siren call of horrible din", the eighth section of his Listen: On Music, Sound and Us (Canongate), Michel explains why ...
Miles: John, Paul, George and… Barry
Profile and Interview by Mick Brown, Daily Telegraph, 16 October 2002
IN 1965, A YOUNG bookseller named Barry Miles decided to throw a birthday party in his London flat for his friend, the beat poet Allen ...
Derek Taylor: As Time Goes By (Faber)
Book Review by Mick Brown, Sunday Telegraph, 5 May 2018
ONE MAGICAL weekend in the summer of 1968, Derek Taylor, the press agent for the Beatles, took a trip with Paul McCartney and the singer ...
The Act You've Known For All These Years: The Beatles and Sgt. Pepper
Retrospective by Mick Gold, unpublished, 1974
ALL ENTERTAINMENT HAS AN EXISTENTIAL dimension: all successful performances imply a life-style and a sense of values, a sub-structure of assumptions upon which the performer ...
The Beatles: Abbey Road (Apple)
Review by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 30 September 1969
THE FIRST Beatle album since just before Christmas, 1968, is being played all over the place. The album, Abbey Road, evidently will precede another LP around ...
Are We Burying McCartney Before He Is Dead?
Report by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 17 October 1969
What's the Meaning of Beatle Death Symbolism? ...
Sly Stone: Stone Too Sick to Rock
Report by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 24 February 1970
Refunds Available ...
The Chambers Brothers: 'They Put Us Up for Sale; People Bought'
Interview by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 31 October 1969
THE CHAMBERS Brothers, who are Willie, George, Joe and Lester Chambers plus Brian Keenan, were dressed in the usual cool clothes they've been noted for ...
The Beatles: Christmas Release for Get Back — Album Won't Set the World on Fire
Review by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 17 October 1969
THE BEATLES' next album, Get Back, actually recorded before their recent album Abbey Road, probably won't set the scene on fire. It's better than Abbey ...
Star Beat: Mike Grant Reporting On The Mersey Scene
Report by Mike Grant, Rave, April 1964
A BLONDE hairdresser is said to be very much the apple of Ringo Starr's eye at the moment. She lives and works in Liverpool and ...
The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour
Review by Mike Jahn, Saturday Review, December 1967
WHOEVER IT WAS that wrote the Bhagavad-Gita (the Celestial Song of Hindu theology) intended to define the perfect disciple when he wrote: "Who sees Me ...
The Beatles: Abbey Road (Apple)
Review by Mike Jahn, The New York Times, 4 October 1969
Abbey Road by Beatles Marked by Moderation ...
The Beatles: The Beatles [The White Album] (Apple)
Review by Mike Jahn, The New York Times, 21 November 1968
TOMORROW THE BEATLES will release their first album in a year, titled simply The Beatles. ...
Rock Music: Drumbeat For Drugs?
Essay by Mike Jahn, New York Times Special Features Syndication, 3 January 1971
"If you're tired or a bit run down, can't seem to get your feet off the ground Maybe you oughta try a little bit ...
Film/DVD/TV Review by Miller Francis, The Great Speckled Bird, 13 January 1969
Yellow Submarine is rapidly on its way to canonization, so I felt that along with unrestrained praise for its animation designer Heinz Edelmann, should go ...
George Harrison: The Scene and Heard Interview
Interview by Miranda Ward, unpublished, September 1967
NOTE: In a brief conversation that appeared on the BBC Radio program Scene and Heard, George Harrison spoke with reporter Miranda Ward from the set ...
Report by Miranda Ward, Hit Parader, November 1967
...from Our Gal In London... Miranda Ward ...
Report by Mitchell Cohen, Phonograph Record, May 1976
THE WINGS LIVE show has been evolving over the past three years, and McCartney deliberately kept a low profile during its earliest stages, a university ...
The Day the Music Died? Feb. 3, 1959 – Feb. 7, 1964
Comment by Mitchell Cohen, Rock's Backpages, 4 February 2013
THE WHOLE "Day The Music Died" mythology is a crackpot idea of rock history. Buddy Holly died for somebody's sins, but not to become a ...
Retrospective by Mitchell Cohen, Music Aficionado, 2017
WITH THEIR EXUBERANT three-part harmony, chiming guitar riffs, and keen sense of what makes a memorable hook, the Hollies created a signature sound. At first, ...
10 Unjustly Overlooked British Invasion Albums (1964–1966)
Retrospective by Mitchell Cohen, Music Aficionado, September 2016
SO MANY artists in the tsunami of music from the U.K. that flooded America in the mid-'60s went on to make extraordinary albums over a ...
How 'Twist and Shout' Shook the World
Retrospective by Mitchell Cohen, Music Aficionado, November 2019
UNLIKE MOST stories, this one begins with a twist. "Come on, baby," Hank Ballard commanded, "let's do the Twist," immortalizing a dance that was catching ...
Report by Nancy Lewis, Fabulous, 27 March 1965
Talk with any boy, and chances are he has a real interest in cars. And our pop star friends are certainly no exception! Brand new ...
Guide by Nicholas Jennings, Inside Entertainment, September 2004
1. The Last Waltz THE BAND'S elegant swansong is the ultimate rock concert movie. Director Martin Scorsese's discreet camerawork and superb sound captures inspired performances from ...
Column by Nick Jones, Rolling Stone, 20 January 1968
THERE ARE a few gloomy faces in England these days since our pound has devalued (what?) but it's mainly the profiteers who can't bear the ...
New Singles including The Beatles, Pink Floyd and Buffalo Springfield
Review by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 18 November 1967
STILL THE BEATLES OLD SOUL AND FEELING ...
Beatle George And Where He's At
Interview by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 16 December 1967
For many people, the Beatles have long passed the stage where they are merely a pop group. The first indication of this development was probably ...
How Far Out Can The Poppers Go?
Report by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 28 May 1966
NOW YOU'RE NEVER ALONE — WITH A SITAR ...
Beatle George And Where He's At (Part 2)
Interview by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 30 December 1967
WE WERE talking about how meditation and yoga leads to self realization. ...
Interview by Nikki Wine, KRLA Beat, 18 September 1965
THIS WEEK, star-gazers, I thought it might be fun to go on a space journey, Well, after all — if you can't beat 'em, JOIN ...
"We made sure of applause — we took our fans with us" reveal The Beatles
Interview by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 24 November 1962
"WHEN WE played outside Liverpool, as often as not we would hire a couple of coaches and take an audience with us," said a Beatle. ...
The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour
Review by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 1 December 1967
MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR is another example of a subject in which the Beatles have been able to exercise their vivid imaginations. ...
How The Beatles Spend An Evening
Interview by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 15 May 1965
IT WAS A typical quiet evening at London's Savoy Hotel. Quiet that is until the Beatles turned up to see Bob Dylan. They all trooped ...
The Beatles: New Album and Single
Report and Interview by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 16 February 1963
THERE'S been a lot of stuff written on the Beatles lately. Rightly, too, for they happen to be in the class of the rarest performers ...
The Rolling Stone Interview: Paul McCartney
Interview by Paul Gambaccini, Rolling Stone, 31 January 1974
THIS JANUARY marks the tenth anniversary of the Beatles' appearance on the American charts. Last month Rolling Stone conducted its first full-scale interview with Paul ...
The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Capitol)
Review by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, October 1967
LIKE THE Beatles themselves, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Capitol) is both enigmatic and brilliant, comprised of so many elements that one hardly knows ...
The backroom boys who wield a big stick
Interview by Paul Sexton, The Times, 20 March 1998
Sir George Martin talks to Paul Sexton about the power of the producer ...
Abbey Road: Where Magic Was Made
Profile by Paul Trynka, The Guardian, 11 March 2005
Paul Trynka looks back at the relationship between the biggest band of all time and the studio that helped them create their sound ...
Profile and Interview by Paul Zollo, Record Collector, May 2008
TO GET TO his home, you drive down a winding country road in the heart of rural Massachusetts, under arches of ancient oaks and elms, ...
Ringo Starr (2015) [transcript]
Audio transcript of interview by Paul Zollo, Rock's Backpages transcripts, April 2015
This is a transcription of Paul's audio interview with Ringo. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...
New singles from the Beatles, Small Faces, Percy Sledge et al
Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 6 August 1966
THIS IS THE BEST BEATLE SONG EVER! ...
The Beatles: The Beatles (Parlophone)
Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 9 November 1968
73 bob is the cost of the Beatles' LP. Pay up and smile THE BEATLES GETS AWAY FROM SERGEANT PEPPER ...
The Beatles: Revolver (Capitol ST-2576/T-2576)
Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 7 August 1966
New Beatles Album Best Yet ...
Summertime Songs on the Heat Parade
Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 28 August 1966
THIS SUMMER may rank along with most Christmases for the number of seasonal records it has produced — every radio station's hit list is loaded ...
The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour (Capitol); Buffalo Springfield: Buffalo Springfield Again (Atco)
Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 10 December 1967
Beatles Back With Another LP ...
Pills and Pop Music: A Psychedelicate Subject
Comment by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 1967
One pill makes you larger And one pill makes you small And the ones that mother gives you Don't do anything at all." ...
The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Capitol)
Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 1967
'Hearts' of the Beatles Beat as One on New Disc ...
The Beatles: The Beatles (Apple SWBO 101)
Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 8 December 1968
Another Beatles Winner ...
The Beatles, the Ronettes et al: Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 29 August 1966
40,000 Yell, Weep as Beatles Belt Out 10 Hits at Stadium ...
The Beatles: A Hard Day's Night (Dir: Richard Lester)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 11 July 1964
It's a Great Day's Night! ...
The Beatles: A Hard Day's Night (Parlophone)
Review by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 11 July 1964
AND THEIR NEW LP... ...
Come Out, Paul... Beefheart's Here!
Report and Interview by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 1 April 1972
UNDERGROUND hero Captain Beefheart surfaced in London with a plea: "Where are you, Paul McCartney?" and being a helpful sort of diary page, we echo: ...
The Beatles: With The Beatles (Parlophone)
Review by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 9 November 1963
WITH THE BEATLES IS THE TITLE OF THE FANTASTIC NEW BEATLES ALBUM. HERE'S A DETAILED REVIEW BY PETER JONES ...
The Beatles' views on Juke Box Jury
Report by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 14 December 1963
WELL, NOW we KNOW what the Beatles really like, loathe, love and feel "nowt" about on the pop scene. Their take-over job on the panel ...
AIR: George Martin — 700 Hours To Complete Sgt Pepper
Interview by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 22 July 1967
IF I WERE a recording manager, I'm sure you'd never catch me on the hop if you asked how many number ones, or top ten ...
Brian Epstein: A Cellarful Of Noise (Souvenir Press)
Book Review by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 10 October 1964
The night George got a black eye… ...
Report by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 4 April 1964
John Lennon Talks About His New Book ...
Report by Peter Jones, Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 16 May 1964
Norman Jopling and Peter Jones take a look at the pros and cons of pop star marriages ...
The Beatles, Small Faces et al: New Singles
Review by Peter Jones, Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 6 August 1966
Wonderful new Beatles, and 2 versions of America's 'Napoleon' hit. Very good Small Faces & old Righteous Bros & Ike and Tina. Slower Nancy and ...
Report by Peter Silverton, The Independent, 1 December 2015
The mythology surrounding the White Album takes in warring Beatles, Charles Manson and installation art. What's even weirder is that Starr ended up with the ...
Peter McCabe and Robert D. Schonfeld: Apple To The Core (Martin, Brian and O'Keeffe)
Book Review by Phil Hardy, Let It Rock, May 1973
A short sighted look beyond the stars ...
Retrospective by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, August 2015
'From Me to You' #1 in: UK Released: April 11, 1963 ...
The Beatles: I Was A Beatlemaniac
Retrospective by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, May 2013
I DIDN'T GET Elvis because I didn't get sex. Well, that was 1956 and I was eight. But The Beatles… ...
Review and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, April 2001
IAN MACDONALD, now 52, was enraptured by The Beatles as a teenager, then generally disappointed by pop music from 1980 onwards. His attempt "to bring ...
The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour (Capitol)
Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 7 December 1967
Beatles' Astonishing Tour — Old Sound Gone in New Album ...
The Beatles: Candlestick Park, San Francisco CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 30 August 1966
Beatles Strike Out at Ball Park ...
The Beatles: The Beatles (Apple)
Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 19 November 1968
Beatles' Latest-in a Plain Wrapper ...
The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Capitol SMAS 2653)
Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 3 June 1967
Last Respects to Beatles In an Album That Turns on ...
Obituary by Philip Norman, Rolling Stone, 30 October 1997
THE SIMPLE term "music publicist" does not begin to describe Derek Taylor, who died from cancer of the esophagus at his home, in Suffolk, England, ...
John Lennon: I Was Never Lovable – I Was Just Lennon
Obituary by Philip Norman, The Sunday Times, December 1980
ONE OF THE more persistent myths surrounding John Lennon claims that he was brought up in poverty by working-class Liverpool parents. ...
Magical Mysteries... The 'Fifth Beatle' Who Kept Their Innermost Secrets To The Very End
Obituary by Philip Norman, Daily Mail, 26 March 2008
NEIL ASPINALL, the deservedly-named 'Fifth Beatle' who has died in New York aged 66, was not an easy man for a journalist to befriend. ...
Neil Aspinall: The Man Who Really Made The Beatles
Profile by Philip Norman, Daily Mail, 12 April 2007
LOYALTY IS not a virtue associated with the pop music industry. Treachery, exploitation and kiss-and-tell are its far more familiar signature-tunes. ...
Paul McCartney: Back In The World, Earls Court, London April 21st
Live Review by Richard English, Rock's Backpages, April 2003
ALL MY LIFE Id wanted to see the Beatles. My sister saw them at Hammersmith in the 60s and screamed. This was my ...
The Beatles: I Blew My Cool Through The New York Times
Comment by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 20 July 1967
IF BEING A critic were the same as being a listener I could just enjoy Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Other than one cut ...
The Beatles: Revolver (Capitol)
Review by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 25 August 1966
SWINGING LONDON, August 17 — The reception which the Beatles have received so far on their American tour has been less than ecstatic. But it ...
The Beatles: Revolver (Capitol)
Review by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 25 August 1966
SWINGING LONDON, August 17 — The reception which the Beatles have received so far on their American tour has been less than ecstatic. But it ...
Pop Eye: Ravi and the Teenie Satori
Report by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 5 January 1967
THEY ARE waiting for him in the glass-enclosed library of Asia House, over coffee, cream, and croissants. All the regulars are there: the lady reporter ...
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi: The Politics of Salvation
Report by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 25 January 1968
The question of the hour is: can an honest man still be a fraud? ...
The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour (Capitol 2835)
Review by Richard Goldstein, The New York Times, 31 December 1967
Are They Waning? ...
The Beatles: Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band (Capitol SMAS 2653)
Review by Richard Goldstein, The New York Times, 18 June 1967
We Still Need the Beatles, but… ...
Interview by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 30 September 1967
EVER SINCE the days of '5-4-3-2-1', Manfred Mann has been improving. Until it has now reached the stage where it can either change it's style ...
The Beatles: Help! (Parlophone)
Review by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 24 July 1965
THIS ALBUM could easily be titled "The Many Moods Of The Beatles". Showcased in fourteen tracks are ballads, rock and roll, folk, country and western ...
The Beatles: Rubber Soul (Parlophone)
Review by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 11 December 1965
(Pssst... here's someone who actually DISLIKES the new Beatles LP. It's RM's Richard Green...) ...
The Beatles: Revolver (Parlophone)
Review by Richard Green, Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 30 July 1966
WELL, THIS is it! The latest Beatle LP, aptly called Revolver. The production that blokes like RM's Tony Hall, having been granted advance whispers of some of ...
We Can Work It Out: The Ten Most Over- & Underrated Beatles Songs
Comment by Richard Riegel, Real Groove, December 1996
The Ten Most Underrated Beatles Cuts (Arranged Chronologically) ...
The Beatles: 1962-1966, 1967-1970 (Apple)
Review by Richard Riegel, Phonograph Record, July 1973
Author's Note, 2009: This review of "the red and blue albums" generated the first-ever hate mail from a reader in my rock-critical career. He wasn't ...
Obituary by Richard Williams, MOJO, November 1997
IN 1963, WHEN BRIAN EPSTEIN INVITED HIM TO HANDLE the Beatles' PR, Derek Taylor was a 31-year-old national newspaper reporter with a suit and tie. ...
Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 6 December 1969
"We had to do a lot of selling out. Taking the MBE was a sell-out for me". Part 1 of a new series by RICHARD ...
The Beatles: Produced By George Martin
Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 21 August 1971
GEORGE MARTIN is probably the most shadowy character in rock and roll history. His influence has been immense, yet few people outside the immediate circle ...
John Lennon: "The Beatles' Wealth is a Myth"
Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 20 September 1969
JOHN LENNON hasn't had a royalty cheque for two years. And, believe it or not, he's feeling the pinch. ...
The Times Profile: Paul McCartney
Profile and Interview by Richard Williams, The Times, 4 January 1982
In the year of his 40th birthday Paul McCartney, the world's most successful pop musician, adjusts the record ...
Profile and Interview by Richie Unterberger, Record Collector, June 2006
BESIDES GEORGE Martin, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, Geoff Emerick worked on more Beatles sessions than any other individual. ...
George Harrison Visits Haight-Ashbury In Summer 1967
Retrospective by Richie Unterberger, MOJO, Summer 2007
UNCOMMON sightings were downright common in the Haight-Ashbury during the Summer of Love. But even in that colorful context, the visit of George Harrison to ...
Keith Richard on Mick, Beatles, Led, Faith, Tull, Gees
Interview by Ritchie Yorke, New Musical Express, 6 December 1969
THE NEWS that the Rolling Stones have resumed personal appearances must have gladdened the hearts of pop fans everywhere. The Stones always were the most ...
John Lennon: Ringo's Right, We Can't Tour Again
Interview by Ritchie Yorke, New Musical Express, 7 June 1969
JOHN LENNON, over here in Canada with his wife Yoko, revealed for the first time that there had been considerable disagreement between him and Paul ...
George Harrison Talks About The Beatles' Album, Abbey Road
Interview by Ritchie Yorke, Detroit Free Press, 26 September 1969
LONDON — Abbey Road is a short street in North London with only one distinctive feature — it houses the studios of E.M.I., the world's ...
Harrison Assesses the Beatles' Past, Present, Future
Interview by Ritchie Yorke, Los Angeles Times, 21 December 1969
LONDON — George Harrison, long reputed to be the most "normal" member of the Beatles, was sitting in a spacious armchair at Apple headquarters, writing ...
Report by Ritchie Yorke, Rolling Stone, 7 February 1970
TORONTO — The scene couldn't have been more appropriately peaceful if it had been staged by a film director. A color TV set flickered soundlessly ...
John Lennon: A Private Talk With John
Interview by Ritchie Yorke, Rolling Stone, 7 February 1970
YOU'VE BEEN talking lately about the fact that the Beatles aren't the musical group they were two or three years ago — that you are ...
Book Review by Rob Young, The Word, June 2011
AROUND 15 MAY 1970, Neil Young glanced at Time magazine's coverage of the killing of four students at Kent State, grabbed a guitar and within ...
Bob Spitz: The Beatles – The Biography (Aurum Press)
Book Review by Robert Sandall, The Sunday Times, 7 May 2006
WITH ITS BIBLICAL length and its epigraph from that underused pop pundit, Plato — "When the mode of the music changes, the walls of the ...
Interview by Robert Sandall, Q, January 1991
"LAST YEAR," says the man with more rings in his ears than on his fingers, "I was sittin' round wondering what I was gonna do ...
It was 40 years ago today: Remaking Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Report and Interview by Robert Sandall, Daily Telegraph, 31 May 2007
The Beatles' monumental album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is being re-recorded by some of the biggest names in pop. Robert Sandall reports. ...
The Beatles Will Make the Scene Here Again, but the Scene Has Changed
Overview by Robert Shelton, The New York Times, 11 August 1965
JOHN, PAUL, George and Ringo are bringing it all back home. That means the Beatles are returning to the United States. They will arrive Friday ...
George Harrison: A Different Face, New Life
Profile by Rochelle Reed, KRLA Beat, 29 July 1967
HE'S A member of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band resplendent in an orange braided uniform and flowing hair, with a mustache that somehow grows ...
The Remains: Beatle Tour — 'Like Playing In A Closet'
Interview by Rochelle Reed, KRLA Beat, 24 September 1966
"PLAYING THE Beatle tour was like performing in a closet with the lights off," confessed Briggs, one of the Remains who wandered up to The ...
The Beatles, The Ronettes et al: Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, Ca.
Live Review by Rochelle Reed, KRLA Beat, 24 September 1966
"THIS JUST stuns me!" said awed Byrd David Crosby, a Beatle mate. He was standing on the field of Dodger Stadium, gazing up at the ...
Report and Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 20 March 1976
Flourishing a revolver our weird hero enters his dark, refrigerated room to recount strange tales the likes of which may never before have been heard ...
Question Time With George Harrison
Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 27 December 1969
Roy Carr concludes his exclusive Question-time with George Harrison, taped in the lounge of a Liverpool hotel during a break in the recent Delaney and ...
Booker T-MGs Invade Beatle Land
Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 13 June 1970
THINK YOU recognise the album cover on the right? Well, just look again! It's the sleeve to Booker T & the MG's new album McLemore ...
Apple Corps: They didn't have to be so nice... (We would have liked them anyway)
Report by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 17 May 1975
Inquest by ROY CARR ...
George And Eric Inspire Each Other
Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 20 December 1969
Friendship and a mutual love of music brought George Harrison and Eric Clapton together for the recent Delaney and Bonnie tour. At a stopover In ...
By George: Harrison's Post-Beatles Solo Career
Retrospective by Roy Trakin, Capitol Vaults blog, June 2009
MOST PEOPLE THINK of George Harrison as "the Quiet Beatle," the spiritual one, the first to turn the band on to transcendental meditation, but the ...
Rock Was Dead Before The Beatles!
Retrospective and Interview by Sid Griffin, MOJO, September 2004
And lo, the Beatles begat the Byrds. As said unto Sid Griffin. ...
Killer Riffs: A Guide to Parody in Popular Music
Essay by Simon Reynolds, Pitchfork, 19 October 2016
From the Residents' freakish Beatles sendups, to Spinal Tap's meta-metal escapades, to the gastronomic goofs of "Weird Al", a chronicle of those who have turned ...
From Beetles to Beatles: It was 60 years ago today
Essay by Simon Warner, Kerouac.com, 1 June 2020
How Beat and a British poet changed the history of rock music ...
Hello Me Ol' Mateys: the BBC's Saturday Club
Retrospective by Spencer Leigh, Now Dig This, March 2006
Spencer Leigh returns to the BBC Written Archives for an appraisal of Saturday Club. ...
Memoir by Spencer Leigh, Liverpool Echo, March 2023
IN THE LATE 1990s Bob Wooler, the former Cavern DJ, used to live off Lark Lane, and I would meet him every Saturday at Keith's ...
Naked Eye: An Interview with Ethan Russell
Interview by Steve Matteo, Long Island Pulse, 26 October 2009
PHOTOGRAPHER ETHAN Russell prefers to let his pictures do his talking. In a rare interview, the only photographer to do an album cover for the ...
Looking Back on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Retrospective by Steve Matteo, Boomer, 1 June 2017
FOR THE BEATLES, the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album, released on June 1, 1967, may have really begun on Aug. 29, 1966, at ...
Guide by Steve Matteo, Boomer, 17 August 2018
Recent books by and about favorite boomer musicians and influencers ...
The Beatles: Sgt Pepper, The Inside Story Part II
Retrospective and Interview by Steve Turner, Q, July 1987
'STRAWBERRY FIELDS Forever' and 'Penny Lane', released in February '67, were the first-fruits of the sessions and they didn't disappoint. As American rock critic Greil ...
Timeless Illustrious Past: Why The Beatles Are Still Big Business
Essay by Steve Turner, Wiener Zeitung, June 1999
ALTHOUGH THE Beatles disbanded almost thirty years ago, public interest in the group has never waned. Beatles records still sell in their millions worldwide (six ...
Essay by Steve Turner, Beatles Monthly, October 1969
The Parents who said "Ooh, you'll grow out of it" in 1963 are wondering about growing into it themselves in 1969. ...
Hurricane Smith: The Sixth Beatle
Profile and Interview by Steven Rosen, Los Angeles Free Press, March 1973
HURRICANE SMITH is not your ordinary pop star. At 49, he hardly exudes the virility and youthfulness of a Rod Stewart. His music is neither ...
...And The Arrest is History: Great Rock'n'Roll Drug Busts Through the Ages
Retrospective by Stuart Bailie, New Musical Express, 25 January 1997
Liam Gallagher's caution for possession of cocaine is the latest in a long line of rock'n'roll drug busts. STUART BAILIE remembers those other pop stars ...
Profile and Interview by Stuart Grundy, John Tobler, The Record Producers (BBC Books), 1982
IN MUCH THE same way as Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller were the first American record producers, that accolade in Britain belongs to the man ...
Report by Susin Shapiro, Crawdaddy!, February 1975
NEW YORK — It had to happen. The formation of a road show with the music of Lennon and McCartney had to be money in ...
Teledate: Sylvia Stephen talking to George Harrison
Interview by Sylvia Stephen, Fabulous, 13 June 1964
Y'KNOW, I'D like to adopt George Harrison. (Sit down those girls who yelled "So would we.") I don't have a favourite Beatle, they're all FAB, ...
Report by Sylvia Stephens, Fabulous, 3 October 1964
I FOUGHT my way past the body of Napoleon lying in state, having already paid my respects to Nelson dying at Trafalgar, turned my head ...
Interview by Sylvia Stephens, Fabulous, 15 May 1965
Who are the girls in the lives of the chart topping boys? Who are the girls who know them, who have encouraged them, who have ...
Report and Interview by Sylvia Stephens, Fabulous, 19 June 1965
...that's Liddypool, home of so many greats in the pop world, and from the streets where they lived Fab's SYLVIA STEPHEN reports... ...
Report and Interview by Sylvia Stephens, Fabulous, 1 August 1964
"Actually," Paul McCartney said solemnly, "I've been married for three years." My eyes shot straight up through my McCartney type fringe. "Yes," he continued, still ...
Retrospective and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Request, 1996
"It was a good scene even when it was shitty, wasnt it?" Derek Taylor, Beatles publicist, 1970. ...
The Longest Cocktail Party: An Insider's Diary Of The Beatles
Book Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, July 2005
The madness and mayhem of the Apple empire ...
Review by Terry Staunton, Uncut, May 1998
The "fifth Beatle" signs off with a little help from his friends ...
Book Review by Tim Riley, The Boston Phoenix, February 1990
WHEN PAUL MCCARTNEY announced his $8.5 million promotion deal with Visa at a recent press conference, he was challenged to explain how his new sideline ...
Mark Lewisohn: Tune In: The Beatles – All These Years, Volume 1
Book Review by Tim Riley, The New York Times, 6 December 2013
APPROACHES TO retelling the Beatles' story slice in two distinct directions: narrow or wide. Some authors choose a single figure and bore down deep, which ...
Guide by Tom Cox, The Guardian, 29 January 1999
1 Nick Drake Bryter Layter (Island, 1970) ...
Who The Hell Does RINGO STARR Think He Is?
Interview by Tom Hibbert, Q, June 1992
He was The Lovable One who cracked his daft mop-top jokes for The Queen. The Fab With The Big Nose who you could take home ...
Who the hell does MAX CLIFFORD think he is?
Interview by Tom Hibbert, Q, September 1994
Hamster snack outrage! Lycra thigh-shots farrago! Politician-toe-to-actress-tonsil coincidence! All the proud work of one proud PR man, ever spoon-feeding the media, manipulating the smaller-format newspapers, ...
The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour (Apple Corps/BBC)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Tom Nolan, Los Angeles Free Press, 21 June 1968
THE BEATLES' Magical Mystery Tour is superb, brilliant, great, heavy, boss, light entertainment, good clean fun, a Message Picture, an entertaining nightmare, and it has ...
Beatles Stage Happening With Monkee, Stones...
Report by Tony Barrow, KRLA Beat, 11 March 1967
41 OF BRITAIN'S most accomplished classical musicians wearing formal evening dress, false noses, assorted king-size sun shades and other good-humoured embellishments. ...
Brian Epstein's Death Is Ruled Accidental Overdose
Report by Tony Barrow, KRLA Beat, 7 October 1967
THE NEWS OF Brian Epstein's tragic death led to an immediate storm of speculation about the future of his artists and his various pop empires ...
Harrison & Lennon Discuss Religion
Interview by Tony Barrow, KRLA Beat, 4 November 1967
BEFORE DEPARTING for India and the beginning of a two to three month meditation study course under the guidance of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Beatles John ...
Paul's 'Penny' And Lennon's 'Strawberry' — from The Inside
Report by Tony Barrow, KRLA Beat, 25 February 1967
IT'S BEEN six months since The Beatles brought out a single. Now as ultimate evidence for all those split-up rumour-builders here comes the group's first ...
Paul McCartney In America; Beatles Finish Sgt. Pepper
Report by Tony Barrow, KRLA Beat, 6 May 1967
ON MONDAY, April 3, Paul McCartney flew from London to the West Coast of America, via Paris, accompanied by Mal Evans who is one of ...
Pop Concerts — Essential or Obsolete in '68?
Report by Tony Barrow, KRLA Beat, 20 May 1967
THE BEATLES have decided that it is no longer possible for them to gain anything other than dollars galore from putting on concert performances. ...
Report by Tony Barrow, KRLA Beat, 27 January 1968
A VIOLENT storm of controversy surrounded the London unveiling of Magical Mystery Tour, the Beatles' first self-made TV movie. When the show was screened by ...
Revolver Is Title For New Beatle LP
Report by Tony Barrow, KRLA Beat, 13 August 1966
DURING THEIR Germany/Far East tour THE BEATLES worked out a final running order for their upcoming U.K. album, due for Parlophone release August 5. ...
Cliff Bennett First To Cover Revolver
Report by Tony Barrow, KRLA Beat, 13 August 1966
WHENEVER A new album by THE BEATLES goes on the market, we know to expect a flood of cover-version singles from different parts of the ...
Report by Tony Barrow, KRLA Beat, 21 October 1967
GEORGE HARRISON'S contribution to the soundtrack of the Beatles' self-directed hour-long television show Magical Mystery Tour is a new song which he wrote while he ...
The Beatles' Plans For '67: Records, TV Specials and...?
Report by Tony Barrow, KRLA Beat, 11 February 1967
NEWSPAPER REPORTERS and magazine editors on both sides of the Atlantic seem to have had a thoroughly enjoyable time over the past couple of months ...
BEAT EXCLUSIVE: A Behind The Scenes Story Of Beatles' Sgt. Pepper
Report by Tony Barrow, KRLA Beat, 3 June 1967
LONDON — On the first day of February THE BEATLES began to record a song called 'SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND'. Paul had contributed ...
Beatles And A Stone To Wales With Mystic
Report by Tony Barrow, KRLA Beat, 23 September 1967
ANY GOOD groupie and, indeed, any teenybopper of average intellect would assure you that one of the least likely places top pop people are to ...
Paul McCartney: 'If You'll Shut Up About It I Will'
Report by Tony Barrow, KRLA Beat, 15 July 1967
ON THE evening of Monday June 19, thirty six hours after the British press had reported and examined Paul McCartney's statement regarding LSD (originally contained ...
Beatles by Barrow: Paul — the Cute Beatle Boy
Profile by Tony Barrow, Melody Maker, 10 February 1968
PROBING NEW BEATLES SERIES BY THE MAN WHO'S KEPT SILENT FOR FIVE YEARS ...
Beatles by Barrow: Beatle Who's Changed The Most
Profile by Tony Barrow, Melody Maker, 17 February 1968
TONY BARROW, the Beatles press representative, writes about the Beatles for the first time in five years. Naturally, he chose Melody Maker. Barrow has been ...
Beatles by Barrow: Beatle at the Back
Profile by Tony Barrow, Melody Maker, 24 February 1968
TONY BARROW, the Beatles press representative, writes about the Beatles for the first time in five years, Naturally, he chose Melody Maker. Barrow has been ...
Profile by Tony Barrow, Melody Maker, 2 March 1968
TONY BARROW, the Beatles' press representative, concludes his four part series with this article on John Lennon. Barrow has been associated with the Beatles since ...
Live Review by Tracy Thomas, New Musical Express, 2 September 1966
Meanwhile, back in California... ...
Interview by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 15 January 1966
John Lennon knew all about the MM's Pop Think-in when he was approached to sit in the "hot seat". "Yeah, it'll be a laugh," he ...
Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 21 December 1968
ALVIN LEE, guitarist-leader of Ten Years After, recently returned from a successful Stateside tour, lent an ear to this week's selection of albums and singles ...
The Beatles: The Beatles (White Album) (Apple)
Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 30 November 1968
WITH OVER a million quid already in the coffers for this latest two-LP set handed down from the Liverpudlian heights, it is difficult to put ...
The Beatles: Revolver (Parlophone)
Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 30 July 1966
BEATLES BREAK BOUNDS OF POP ...
Pop Singles inc. the Beatles, Small Faces, John Mayall with Eric Clapton
Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 6 August 1966
CUTE & POTTY RINGO ...
Brenda Holloway Tells Inside Story of Career
Interview by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 25 September 1965
SHE'S REALLY a nice person — one of the nicest in the business. She probably doesn't have any enemies — and that's rare. ...
Report by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 27 August 1966
Epstein Fears Security Dangers During U.S. Tour ...
The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts' Club Band (Parlophone)
Review by uncredited writer, International Times, 2 June 1967
ONE OF THE hang-ups on the pop scene is that too many groups have been writing "psychedelic" music before they have achieved sufficient insight into ...
Report by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 2 July 1966
THE BEATLES have turned out the most nauseating album cover ever seen in the U.S. The jacket [of yesterday and Today — RBP Ed] is ...
Beatle Quotes: It's Not Quiet In Studio As Beatles Make New Disc
Interview by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 15 March 1965
WHILE THE Beatles filmed in the Bahamas, George Martin, (the Beatles recording manager), sat back in London listening to tapes of the last recording session. ...
Platter Chatter: New Albums From The Beatles, Mothers Of Invention etc.
Review by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, October 1967
ABSOLUTELY FREE by the Mothers (Of Invention) must be heard to be believed and appreciated. The music is incredibly dynamic, the lyrics irresistibly memorable. ...
The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Review by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, November 1967
EVER SINCE THE Beatles demonstrated an amazing originality and maturity with their Rubber Soul and Revolver albums, they've been burdened with the responsibility of discovering new and increasingly far-out ...
Platter Chatter: Albums from The Beatles, Donovan, Ravi Shankar et al
Review by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, February 1967
SUNSHINE SUPERMAN, Donovan's first big "commercial" success, is a beautiful, poetic, soothing, soaring, lyrical, rhythmic, groovy experience. ...
Platter Chatter: Albums from The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Jefferson Airplane, Cream and Kaleidoscope
Review by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, April 1968
BEACON FROM MARS/THE KALEIDOSCOPE — Here is the most versatile band we have ever heard. You want ragtime? Listen to 'Baldheaded End OfA Broom' which ...
Harrison Arrives Stateside; Explains Controversial Ad
Report and Interview by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 27 August 1967
LOS ANGELES — Beatle George Harrison arrived at the Los Angeles International Airport for what he described as a "little bit of business and pleasure." ...
A New Development — An Electric Sitar
Report by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 2 December 1967
ELEVEN YEARS ago a pixieish Indian named Ravi Shankar hit these shores. His sole objective in coming here was to make the western world aware ...
Boos, Jeers Greet Two Beatles At Berry Show
Report by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 25 March 1967
LONDON — JOHN Lennon, Ringo Starr and their manager, Brian Epstein, were the object of booing and jeering from the audience at the Epstein owned ...
The Beatles: Is Beatlemania Dying?
Report by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 7 August 1965
BEATLE RUMORS are flying again, and it's the same old story. According to the latest rumblings from the grapevine, "the Beatles are slipping in popularity." ...
The Beatles: Revolver (Capitol)
Review by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 10 September 1966
Whatever Happened To The Beatle Soul? ...
Report by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 3 December 1966
THREE YEARS after instigating an entire era, the Beatles are breaking up. ...
Interview by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 24 September 1966
As Seen By A Beat Reporter After A Long Luvley Chat With Tony Barrow ...
Report by uncredited writer, 16 Magazine, May 1967
Up-to-the-minute news & views on the Fabulous Four — Paul, Ringo, George & John! ...
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, January 1965
THOSE ROLLING STONES, with their headline-hogging activities have always been controversial. There are more Stone-knockers than door-knockers in some of the snootier parts of the ...
Report by uncredited writer, Billboard, 25 January 1964
CHICAGO — The Beatles, the nation's hottest recording property today, are becoming the object of the nation's hottest lawsuits, at least as far as the ...
Musicians Union Watching Invasion of British Groups
Report by uncredited writer, Billboard, 28 March 1964
NEW YORK — The influx of the British musical groups on the U.S. personal appearance scene is disturbing the American Federation of Musicians. It's understood ...
The Beatles: Revolver (Parlophone)
Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 30 July 1966
RAY DAVIES reviews the BEATLES LP: 'Really, it's a load of RUBBISH' ...
Retrospective and Interview by uncredited writer, Rave, November 1964
In a lonely caravan Rave finds the man who started it all. Name... Ken Brown ...
Now You Can Be A Beatle People And Get Right In Here With Them
Overview by uncredited writer, Rave, June 1964
● Just a few people share the Beatles' lives — and their wit, charm, gaiety — because the Beatles can't meet everyone. ● But now YOU ...
Review by uncredited writer, Record Mirror, 4 December 1965
It's Rubber Soul Time... ...
The Times Of India and Sgt. Pepper
Review by uncredited writer, Record Mirror, 14 October 1967
IN THE POP column of a recent edition of the Times of India, critic Z. H. has his first listen to Sgt Pepper. Here's his ...
Interview by uncredited writer, Record Mirror, 18 April 1970
Your own dossier on The McCartney Affair: Paul replies ...
Report by uncredited writer, Record Mirror, 25 February 1967
OVER 1,000 Teddy Boys wearing their 1950 zoot suits, winkle pickers and beetle crushers (we are told) rioted last Sunday at the Saville Theatre in ...
The Beatles: The Beatles (White Album) (Apple)
Review by uncredited writer, Record Mirror, 16 November 1968
THE BEATLES ALBUM TRACKS IN DEPTH strange vibrations from John... ...
The Beatles: Yellow Submarine (Apple Records, Stereo PCS7O70)
Review by uncredited writer, Record Mirror, 18 January 1969
'Yellow Submarine'; 'Only A Northern Song'; 'All Together Now'; 'Hey Bulldog'; 'It's All Too Much'; 'All You Need Is Love'; 'Pepperland'; 'Sea Of Holes'; 'Sea ...
How To Get Our Autograph — And Live!
Interview by uncredited writer, Disc, 14 August 1965
* stage door routine * butter-up compere * through fan club ...
At home with the Lennons, Part 2: "Ringo's Sellers is my Paul"
Interview by Val Mabbs, Record Mirror, 14 August 1971
"THESE PAST two years have been very heavy," Yoko told me earnestly. "We've been having the Paul thing and the Kyoko thing going on for ...
Report by Vicki Wickham, Fabulous, 21 November 1964
"Hello, whack. What a rush, but we're here. Is there possibly anything to eat — we're starving?" It could only be The Beatles. ...
RSG RIP: Another pop show bites the dust!
Report by Vicki Wickham, uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 19 November 1966
Ready, Steady Go! Editor Vicki Wickham reviews highlights of the TV aeries that ends on December 23 ...
Murray the K Dies; "Fifth Beatle" Was 60
Obituary by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 23 February 1982
SUBMARINE RACE watchers walked hand-in-hand listening to golden gassers on the Swingin' Soiree. Teens jabbered in a peculiar language, taunting parents and teachers by inserting ...
Report and Interview by Wesley Laine, Record Mirror, 2 February 1963
WHETHER YOU like them or not, you've got to admit that the Beatles are just about the most talked-about group on the British beat scene. ...
Repackaging Pleasant Memories: The Beatles' Love Songs
Comment by Wesley Strick, Circus, 5 January 1978
Beatles' Love Songs Presents Twenty-Five Romantic Gems ...
see also George Harrison
see also John Lennon
see also George Martin
see also Paul McCartney
see also Ringo Starr
see also Quarrymen, The
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