Imagine which is the most famous John Lennon song was recently selected as “the most loved song ever in the UK”. Imagine was an idealist song about wishing a peaceful and better world. Imagine all the people, living life in peace The song was a hit in 1971. It was …
Read More »40 Things About the Beatles You Must Learn
1 The poshest member is John Lennon. He even had a pony when he was a child.2 Paul McCartney is the only Beatle who was born in a private hospital. Because his mother Mary was a nurse in Walton Hospital in Liverpool.3 McCartney’s mother died in 1956 when Paul was 14 …
Read More »The Beatles in The Philippines: Disaster from Beginning Until the End
After the troubles and problems in Japan, The Beatles started their journey to Manila, the capital of The Philippines for two shows. On 03 June 1966, The Beatles arrived to The Philippines for the first and last time. The 2-nights in Manila was a disaster from the beginning until the …
Read More »The Beatles’ Last Concert: Candlestick Park
On 29 August 1966, The Beatles gave its last concert for 33-minutes in Candlestick Park, San Francisco. They played 11 songs including Chuck Berry’s “Rock and Roll Music”, “She’s A Woman,” “If I Needed Someone,” “Day Tripper,” “Baby’s in Black,” “I Feel Fine,” “Yesterday,” “I Wanna Be Your Man,” “Nowhere …
Read More »Ed Sullivan Show and The Beatles.
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 »14 September 1966 George Harrison and his wife Pattie fly from London to Bombay (Mumbai)
It is George’s first time in India. The purpose of the visit was to take sitar lessons with Ravi Shankar, and to study yoga.George had met Shankar in London in June, at the home of Ayana Deva Angadi, founder of the Asian Music Circle. Then they met again at George’s …
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