Top The Beatles Facts You Need to Know
” The biggest crowds ever to welcome the Beatles were in Australia. But Ringo wasn’t there.
“”When the Beatles arrived in Australia in June of 1964, they were welcomed by a frenzied crowd of 300,000 people, who lined the streets as the Beatles drove past them and waved. Ringo, however, was stuck in the hospital, sick with tonsillitis, and was replaced by a stand-in drummer named Jimmie Nicol.”
“Paul McCartney intended \””Let It Be\”” as an Aretha Franklin song. She took so long to release it that The Beatles recorded it themselves.”
“Carl Sagan, an astronomer working on the Voyager project in the 1970s, had wanted to include the Beatles’ “Here Comes the Sun” on the Voyager Golden Records to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth. While the Beatles favored the idea, their recording company, EMI refused to release the rights, and it was not included.”
“The Beatles once bought a private island in Greece with the hopes of living there together, away from screaming fans. They later sold the island when they were breaking up”
“The Beatles have spent a record 1,278 weeks on the Billboard chart”
“Lennon once wrote a Dylan parody called ‘Stuck Inside Of Lexicon With The Roget’s Thesaurus Blues’”
“As of 2013, the Beatles hold the record for the most number one hits on the Hot 100 charts”
“Lennon and McCartney met on 6 July, 1957 at a Saturday evening fete in St Peter’s Church, Woolton, Liverpool, where 16-year-old Lennon¹s group, The Quarrymen, were playing”
“”The Beatles were known as perfectionists in the studio, often recording dozens of takes on a specific song. The Beatle song with the most attempted takes was actually never released by the Beatles.”
“Frank Sinatra described the Beatles song “Something” as the greatest love song ever written”
“The Beatles’ last live performance was in 1966 at Candlestick Park, San Francisco”
“The Beatles asked Stanley Kubrick to direct Lord of the Rings film starring George Harrison as Gandalf, Paul McCartney as Frodo, Ringo Starr as Sam, and John Lennon as Gollum but J.R.R. Tolkien wouldn’t let them do it.”
“The Beatles formed in Liverpool in 1960, and their most famous lineup consisted of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. Their music is rooted in skiffle, 1950s popular music influenced by folk, jazz, and blues music. It also appropriated several genres, including pop ballads and psychedelic rock”
“A Hard Day’s Night’ was so called after Ringo wittily moaned that was a ‘hard day’s night’ after a knackering day’s filming on 19 March, 1964”
“Lennon and McCartney had established a songwriting partnership, and as the band’s success grew, their dominant collaboration limited Harrison’s opportunities as a lead vocalist”
“In 1968, the Beatles formed Apple Corps Ltd (informally known as Apple). In 1981, a lawsuit was settled with Apple Computer with the payment of $80,000 to Apple Corps. As a condition of the settlement, Apple Computer agreed to stay out of the music business”
“The Beatles are the most famous group in music history, and Elvis Presley is the most famous solo singer”
“The most photographed subject of the 1960s was the Beatles”
“Before writing ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’, George Harrison randomly picked a book on a shelf, opened it and read the first word he saw. The word was ‘gently’.”
” The statue of Eleanor Rigby sitting on a bench in Liverpool’s Stanley Street was made by ’60s singer Tommy Steele”
” At one point, Ringo seriously considered emigrating to Texas to become a country musician”
“The most played track at The Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper’ press launch was Procul Harum’s ‘A Whiter Shade of Pale’. Lennon was obsessed by it, and played the song non-stop on his white Rolls Royce’s record player all the way to the party.”
“During the week of April 4, 1964, the Beatles held 12 positions on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, including the top 5. No one has ever beaten this record”
“The Beatles’ first-ever album to debut at number one was Help”
“The Beatles album with the longest consecutive time spent at number one is their debut album Please Please Me at 30 weeks”
“In 2004, Rolling Stone crowned the Beatles as the best artists of all time”
“When Bob Dylan first heard ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand’, he decided The Beatles must be groovy drug-inspired folk and mistook the line ‘I can’t hide’ for ‘I get high’”
“Before changing the lyrics in Yesterday by The Beatles, they were originally “scrambled eggs, oh baby how I love your legs, but not as much as I love scrambled eggs.”
“John Lennon was murdered by Mark David Chapman in December 1980 while returning to his New York home with his wife, Yoko Ono.”
“The Beatles had seven consecutive number one hit albums, just behind Abba and Led Zeppelin, who each had eight “
“When Paul McCartney was asked why the Beatles broke up, he said, “Personal differences, business differences, musical differences—but most of all, because I have a better time with my family.”
“The first British performance of the Beatles as a group was on December 17, 1960, at the Casbah Coffee Club in Liverpool.”
“The only George Harrison song to be played live by the Beatles was “If I Needed Someone,” which they played on their 1966 tour”
” Countries in which the Beatles have had the most No.1s include Australia, Germany, Holland, Sweden, Canada and Norway”
” The last time that all four Beatles recorded together was 20th of August 1969 where they finished ‘I Want You (She’s So Heavy’.”
” John Lennon was murdered in December 1980, and George Harrison died of lung cancer in 2001. Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are still alive and musically active”
“\””Something\”” by the Beatles and \””Layla\”” by Eric Clapton are both about the same woman.”
“George Harrison’s song “Blue Jay Way” has led to the repeated theft of that street sign in Los Angeles. The song was written at a house on Blue Jay Way in the Hollywood Hills”
“John Lennon loved cats. He had 10 while living in Weybridge with first wife Cynthia. His mum once had a cat called Elvis, because she was a big Presley fan.”
“Yesterday” by the Beatles has been covered over 1,600 times. It has been covered by Elvis, Boyz II Men, Frank Sinatra, Gladys Knight, and James Brown, among many others. The group’s original title for this song was actually “Scrambled Eggs”
“John Lennon said that the song “Good Morning, Good Morning” was inspired by a cornflake advertisement”
“In “Hey Jude,” Paul McCartney can be faintly heard saying “Oh f***ing hell” after he made a mistake during the recording of the song”
“All The Beatles were scared of flying, especially George Harrison.”
“The Beatles built their reputation playing clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg over a three-year period from 1960, with Stuart Sutcliffe initially serving as bass player.”
” There is a small town in Australia which has a decommissioned submarine on display in a park, and to celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Beatles’ visit to the country, community members knitted yellow wool squares to cover the entire submarine”
“The Beatles song “Dear Prudence” was written for Mia Farrow’s sister, Prudence Farrow. John Lennon thought she spent too much time meditating and encouraged her through the song to “come out and play”
“A burst appendix and a bout of pleurisy kept Ringo in hospital for three years as a child.”
“Flying” and “Dig It” are the only two album tracks to be credited to all four Beatles”
“Mad Men paid $250,000 for the master recording of “Tomorrow Never Knows” by The Beatles, played for just two minutes during a season 5 episode.”
“After the Beatles broke up, Eric Clapton was one of the few musicians who appeared on solo recordings by each of the four”
“The closest the Beatles came to reuniting after their 1970 split was at Eric Clapton’s wedding when he married Patti Boyd in 1979. McCartney, Harrison, and Starr played, but Lennon did not attend”
“Michael Jackson purchased the publishing rights to The Beatles song catalog for $47.5 million, against the advice of his counsel. 30 years later it was resold to Sony for $750 million, nearly a 1500% increase in value”
“The Beatles’ longest single, at 7 minutes and 15 seconds, is “Hey Jude.” It was also their first to be issued on the Apple label”
“The Beatles had to dodge jelly beans thrown at them on stage because fans heard George Harrison liked them”
” John Lennon never said \””Ringo isn’t the best drummer in the world. He isn’t even the best drummer in the Beatles\””. It was uttered by British comedian Jasper Carrott in 1983, three years after Lennon’s death”
“Jimi Hendrix covered \””Sgt. Pepper\”” in front of The Beatles only 2 days after it was released”
“George Martin played keyboards on almost every Beatles album”
” The Beatles wanted to star in a film version of The Lord of the Rings and wanted Stanley Kubrick to direct it”
” The Canadian rock band Rush stands third after the Beatles and Rolling Stones for the most consecutive gold or platinum studio albums by a rock band”
“The last album recorded by the Beatles was Abbey Road. The last album released was Let It Be”
“John Lennon started a band in 1957 called the Quarry Men and later asked Paul McCartney to join. Paul brought in George Harrison, and later Ringo Starr would replace Peter Best as drummer. The band changed its name a few times, which included the names Johnny and the Moondogs, The Rainbows, and British Everly Brothers”
“Julia” was the only Beatles song John Lennon performed without assistance from the other band members. “Blackbird” was the only song sung alone by Paul when he was part of the Beatles”
“Strawberry Fields was a real place – it was a children’s home run by the Salvation Army in Liverpool. It’s since been demolished.”
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