While Beatles was not well-known in the US on October 1963, Ed Sullivan discovered Beatlemania phenomenon. Ed Sullivan’s flight from London, Heathrow Airport was late. This was because Beatles was welcomed by a lot of fans from their overseas concert. When the reason for delay was explained, Ed Sullivan said: …
Read More »Stuart Sutcliffe
Before BeatlesSutcliffe as the son of a marine father and teacher mother was born in 1940 in Scotland. The family moved to England and his father was not around since he was at sea. Sutcliffe sang songs in the choir during his school years. He met John Lennon when he …
Read More »The Beatles, Live at the BBC: Nothing Is Real
How did Dezo Hoffman’s original Beatles photo get an aesthetic surgery before being added to 1994 “Live at the BBC” album? How does the venue in the photo look like now? Front CoverThe altered photo as the front cover for “Live at the BBC” album (first from the left) and the original …
Read More »NASA’s Beatles broadcast to the space
Across the Universe song by famous music band Beatles is the first song to be directly broadcasted to the space.Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney in 1968, this song was broadcast by NASA to the space for the 40th year celebration of the song.The song was broadcast at midnight …
Read More »Beatles Museum
In Hamburg, Germany around Reeperbahn which is famous for sex and entertainment center, there is a museum with Liverpool-based Beatles’ original possessions.This museum called Beatlemania has everything about the music life of the band from the first years until the last years of The Beatles. The museum is built on …
Read More »George Harrison’s plagiarism charge turned into one of the longest legal battles in America
George Harrison in Cannes in 1976 George Harrison in Cannes in 1976 / Michael Putland / Getty Images Alicia Sanchez gomez 31/08/2021-15:21 CET 4 ‘ George Harrison was baffled after hearing the guilty sentence. When he wrote My sweet lord he was unaware of the hell that would come all …
Read More »John Lennon faced the recording of Imagine
John Lennon faced the recording of Imagine, his second solo album, with the aim of returning to the top spot in the rankings. He was the only Beatle who hadn’t had a number one, so he sought to show himself as the successful composer he had been with his band, …
Read More »16 Beatles References in Simpsons
We made a list of Beatles References in Simpsons Tv Show 1- On a Halloween episode, The Devil appears in Flanders-form, and confesses that his deep-down eternally-long secret was to be one of the Beatles. 2- On the episode called “Behind the Laughter”, a bunch of screaming girls watch a …
Read More »David Bowie’s fond memories of John Lennon
It’s impossible for me to talk about popular music without mentioning probably my greatest mentor, John Lennon. I guess he defined for me, at any rate, how one could twist and turn the fabric of pop and imbue it with elements from other artforms, often producing something extremely beautiful, very …
Read More »20 Interesting Connections Between John Lennon and the number 9
list of Connections number 9 and Lennon from Ray Coleman’s book “Lennon” 1- John was killed at 10:50 pm in New York on December 8th, the five hour time difference meant that it was December 9th in Britain. His body was taken to Roosevelt (nine letters) Hospital. It was situated …
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