OCTOBER 10, 1939 – Eleanor Rigby died in her sleep of unknown causes at the age of 44. But according to songwriter Paul McCartney, the 1966 Beatles’ song that featured her name wasn’t written about her. In fact, McCartney’s first draft of the song’s melody came to him as he experimented with his piano, and he…
OCTOBER 14, 1971 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono appeared on ABC-TV’s “The Dick Cavett Show” to promote John’s new album “Imagine”, Yoko’s new book, and their art exhibition that opened on John’s 31st birthday (October 9th) at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York, and ran until October 27th.”This Is Not Here”…
OCTOBER 15, 1995 – Paul and Linda McCartney were the guest voices on Fox-TV’s The Simpsons in an episode called “Lisa the Vegetarian.” McCartney’s only stipulation for appearing was that Lisa’s decision to become a vegetarian would be a permanent character change, to which producer David Mirkin agreed. Dan Castellaneta, the voice of Homer Simpson, is…
OCTOBER 15, 1960 – The Beatles (minus Pete Best) and two members of Rory Storm’s Hurricanes (Ringo Starr and Lu Walters) recorded a version of George Gershwin’s “Summertime” in a Hamburg, Germany recording studio backing Walters. The track which was cut onto a 78-rpm disc marked the first session that included John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George…
The composer of numerous memorable songs, George Harrison is a Beatles member rather on the background just like Ringo Starr compared to John Lennon and Paul McCartney. George Harrison started to play in The Beatles when he was 16 years old and the other band members saw him as a child. George Harrison was officially…
Yoko Ono and John Lennon were preparing an album called Double Fantasy to symbolize their come back 5 years later. John Lennon said, “I wouldn’t be surprised if people say, there is nothing these two will not do for promotion when people listen to this album.” But the things happened on 08 December 1980 changed…
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 also a hit when John…
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 years old. His…
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 end. After arriving to the…
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 Man,” “Paperback Writer,” and Little…