There are so many beautiful songs from The Beatles, in early times and “It’s Only Love,” is one of them. It does feel, however, like a transition point, even a bidding good-bye, given that it comes from the album Help! , near the tail end of their 1963-1965 run with …
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The structure of “Happiness Is A Warm Gun” is unique for The Beatles. “These were all different segments of songs that I wrote altogether and stuck them all in one piece,” Lennon told Rolling Stone. “Just like a collage, instead of an album like Pepper. This was all done in …
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In Please Mister Postman, With The Beatles album, 1963 The Beatles pay tribute to the original through the tight harmonies and virtual call-and-response sections. As John cries “wait a minute” and “oh yeah,” George and Paul either repeat his phrases or underscore on key lyrics such as “since I’ve heard …
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Recordings for Rubber Soul album are ending!Even though their recording session the previous day lasted until 4:00 in the morning, The Beatles knew that this day, November 11th, 1965, was the absolute deadline to complete their album “Rubber Soul.” Therefore they entered EMI Studio Two at 6 pm for what …
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NOVEMBER 10, 1967 – The Beatles filmed three promotional films for their new single “Hello Goodbye” at the Saville Theatre in London. Each of the three film clips featured different costumes and zany Beatle antics. At the time the theatre was still leased by NEMS Enterprises, despite the recent death of …
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NOVEMBER 9, 1966 – John Lennon met Yoko Ono for the first time when he visited her art exhibition “Unfinished Paintings and Objects” at John Dunbar’s Indica Gallery in London.He climbed a ladder that led to a small note on the ceiling that when viewed with a magnifying glass read simply “yes” and …
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Paul was the first to arrive after flying in from London with fiancee Heather Mills. Drummer Ringo drove over from a hotel nearby after jetting in a few days earlier. Frail, George was on medication and ate a vegetarian meal and drank only water. According to the British tabloid, Sunday …
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The diaries and other items were stolen from Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono’s home in 2006. Now they are arresting police officers as part of a preliminary investigation. A man who allegedly tried to sell diaries and other stolen objects from the estate of John Lennon has been arrested in Berlin. …
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It all started with this trip: In January 1964, the photographer Harry Benson was commissioned to accompany the band The Beatles, which was extremely popular in Europe at the time, to Paris. The photographer and the musicians got along well from the start – and the result was pictures that …
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As with so many questions about the Beatles, there are several theories in this case. The funniest of them was brought into circulation by John Lennon himself. In an interview he once said that he had the vision of a man on a burning cake who said: “You are Beatles …
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