The Beatles Archives: 12/2025

Ringo Starr - Drummer - The Beatles - 1965

The Beatles song that Ringo Starr hated recording: “He may as well have talked to me in Arabic”

Tripping him up.

Dec 28, 2025

Paul McCartney - John Lennon - The Beatles - 1964

The Beatles song that saw John Lennon and Paul McCartney pay tribute to their heroes

A lasting influence…

Dec 28, 2025

Oasis - Border - Far Out Magazine

10 musicians who stabbed their bandmates in the back

The raw wounds artists won’t recover from.

Dec 27, 2025

Bruce Springsteen - Live Photos - Wembley Stadium London - 2024 - Raph Pour-Hashemi

The bands Bruce Springsteen called his musical Mount Rushmore: “That’s how my playlist goes”

Four essential artists…

Dec 27, 2025

The musician Ringo Starr called his musical father

Someone to look up to.

Dec 26, 2025

Paul McCartney - George Harrison - Ringo Starr - John Lennon - The Beatles

Which Beatles songs went to number one without a chorus?

Abandoning the structure.

Dec 26, 2025

Bob Dylan - The Beatles - Split

The track Bob Dylan thought he could sue The Beatles over: “My song came first”

Who did it first?

Callum MacHattie

Dec 26, 2025

The manic moment Chris Farley interviewed Paul McCartney- What a dumb question!

The manic moment Chris Farley interviewed Paul McCartney: “What a dumb question!”

“D’you remember?”

Dec 26, 2025

A brief history of the musical dark art of backmasking

What was the first song accused of backmasking?

Retpahc eiree dna egnarts a.

Dec 25, 2025

The Beatles 1968 press photo

The moment Paul McCartney called the “final straw” for The Beatles

And that was that.

Dale Maplethorpe

Dec 25, 2025

Joni Mitchell’s favourite album by The Beatles

The Beatles album Joni Mitchell calls her favourite: ‘I played it over and over’

A formative record.

Dec 25, 2025

Listen to Paul McCartney’s long-lost 1965 experimental Christmas album

Paul McCartney’s long-lost experimental Christmas album

Recorded privately for his Beatles bandmates.

Dec 25, 2025