Are you ready to learn some of the unknown facts about the 60s legendary British music band the Beatles? Here are some interesting facts even fans did not know.
1- TAKE OUT FROM THE BAND
When the Beatles did their first album deal, the music producer George Martin was not satisfied with drummer Pete Best’s performance and told the band that they need to go on without him. John Lennon asked their manager Brian Epstein to give the bad news to his band members. At the end, Ringo Starr replaced Best. Although Ringo is the most popular drummer around the world, the fans were not so keen about him at the beginning because he replaced Best. Thankfully this lasted short.
2- THE CONCERTS OFTEN HAD URINE ODOUR
The crazy fans of the band were flowing from other cities to watch the Beatles concert. They didn’t even notice they need to go to the toilet because of their love towards the band members.
3- IF YOU THINK THE LYRICS ARE ONLY WRITTEN FOR THE SINGER…
Lennon and McCartney were the best songwriters in a short time. But they didn’t write the songs only for the singer. If you listen to the Paperback Writer song, you will notice that Lennon and Harrison’s lyrics say something different other than the vocal.
4-WHEN THEY HAD SEX FOR THE FIRST TIME…
The band stayed in a small room when they gave concerts in Germany. As they confessed in the Beatles Anthology, when the guitarist of the band had sex with a girl for the first time, the other band members were there! They even took Harrison and the girl out from the bedsheet and the entire band clapped them standing.
5-ED SULLIVAN WAS NOT THEIR FIRST AMERICAN TELEVISION SHOW EXPERIENCE
Although the Ed Sullivan show on 09 February 1964 was a huge step towards the US, the Beatles first appeared in Huntley-Brinkley Report on 18 November 1963.
6- THEY COMPLETED THEIR FIRST ALBUM JUST IN ONE DAY
The record company asked for an album after the success of Please Please Me song. George Martin sparked the energy of the band and they recorded the entire Please Please Me LP in less than 13 hours. They lastly recorded Twist and Shout and Lennon’s voice from the previous songs were used as vocals. However, it too around 1 month to complete Yellow Submarine as his voice became more experimental in the mid-1960s.
7- A FAN BROKE INTO PAUL MCCARTNEY’S HOUSE
The event that inspired She Came in Through the Bathroom Window song happened like this. When Paul McCartney was not at home, a fan breaks in the house from the bathroom window and tries the clothes of him.
8- LET IT BE SONG IS NOT A REFERENCE FOR THE BIBLE
Let’s think about the lyrics of Let It Be. When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom, let it be. From these lyrics everyone thought that Let It Be was a reference to the Bible but McCartney wrote these lyrics to his mother died from breast cancer.
9- WHO DO YOU THINK WROTE THE FRANK SINATRA’S MOST LOVED LOVE SONGS?
Something from Frank Sinatra’s Ol’ Blue Eyes album is known as the best love song. Who do you think wrote this song: Lennon and McCartney.
10- YOKO WAS NOT THE REASON FOR THE BAND TO BREAK UP
Yes, Yoko was not the reason for the Beatles to break-up, but she didn’t help them to get back. The tension among the band members was there because Lennon was madly in love with Yoko and he wanted to keep his girlfriend around him even when he recorded songs.
The song “Something” was not written by Lennon & McCartney, it was written by George Harrison.