“I was very scared. I didn’t want to give up, but it was a mess, it was unreal, and I had to handle this all by myself. There was no choice. I had to try. We had two children, we’d just been married a year and my husband didn’t want to get out of bed….
“The train bit embarrasses us now,” said John. “I’m sure it’s less noticeable to people watching in the cinema, but we know that we’re dead conscious in every move we make, we watch each other. Paul’s embarrassed when I’m watching him speak and he knows I am. You can see the nervous bits normally in…
John’s inspiration for the song came when Julian showed him a nursery school drawing he called “Lucy—in the Sky with Diamonds.” According to John and Ringo, who witnessed the event, Julian first uttered the song’s title upon returning home from nursery school.
Such a shame the hotel that The Beatles stayed in for 5 days when on tour with Gerry & the Pacemakers burnt down. The boys had such a great time there in July 1963 as they could still walk around relatively unknown apart from signing autographs. The were on the cusp of World wide fame….
Tucked away in the depths of side two of the first disc of The Beatles (1968) is “Blackbird”, a quiet, unassuming acoustic number that in truth ranks as one of the album’s best songs. Like many tracks on “The White Album”, “Blackbird” is a showcase for one Beatle instead of the entire group. In fact,…
Once upon a time, around 1958, the beginning of an odyssey in the art of songwriting! The Beatles’ first single, “Love Me Do,” was also one of the first songs Lennon and McCartney wrote together. They were just teenagers in 1958, scribbling songs in a school notebook, dreaming of stardom, always writing “Another Lennon-McCartney Original”…
Fats Domino had a lasting impact on a number of musicians. His music and the sound of New Orleans R&B made its way around the world, and artists took inspiration from his style and songs. One of the most influential groups to incorporate Domino’s style into their music was the Beatles. The song “Lady Madonna”…
3/20 March 1966 – Klosters (Switzerland)Paul McCartney and Jane Asher return to England after a two-week holiday in Switzerland.The couple had rented a chalet in the mountains about half a mile from the town of Klosters. During their vacation McCartney worked on some ideas for the next Beatles album.Paul describes the birth of For No…
Not having been able to get married in Paris a few days earlier, John Lennon and Yoko Ono chartered a plane to Gibraltar, with the advice of Apple assistant Peter Brown, who arranged everything.“We chose Gibraltar because it was quiet, a British colony and very friendly. We tried to get married in several places first….
One reason this location was chosen was that the band was less likely to be recognized there than at one of the larger resorts frequented by British tourists. The Beatles were in Obertauern for two weeks along with a film crew of around 60 people. Locals served as ski stunt doubles for the Beatles, who…