The Beatles Archives: 08/2020

How Michael Jackson outbid Paul McCartney for the publishing rights to The Beatles music

How Michael Jackson outbid Paul McCartney to own the publishing rights to all The Beatles music

It ended their friendship

Aug 14, 2020

The reasons why John Lennon hated The Beatles masterpiece 'Abbey Road'

How John Lennon escaped the “prison” of being in The Beatles

“I wasn’t free. I was boxed in.”

Aug 14, 2020

Hear George Harrison’s isolated guitar on The Beatles song ‘Don’t Let Me Down’

Sensational playing

Aug 12, 2020

How The Beach Boys inspired The Beatles to hide swear words in their song

“It gave us a laugh”

Aug 11, 2020

Previously unheard demo by Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr to be sold at auction

Paul McCartney says it was ELO’s Jeff Lynne who got Ringo Starr to appear on ‘Flaming Pie’

“We’d never really done that much outside The Beatles.”

Aug 11, 2020

Joe Strummer once directed a bizarre gangster punk-noir film starring The Clash

The Clash’s experimental song which mimicked The Beatles’ ‘Revolution 9’

Stark similarities

Aug 10, 2020

The Cover Uncovered: The most famous crossing in the world, The Beatles’ ‘Abbey Road’

Perfect

Aug 8, 2020

Revisit a rarely seen personality quiz The Beatles took back in 1965

A sharp insight

Aug 7, 2020

From Elvis Presley to The Beatles: 8 iconic performances from The Ed Sullivan Show

Historic performances

Aug 7, 2020

The Beatles song John Lennon wrote to confuse their fans

“Just to confuse everybody a bit more”

Aug 7, 2020

The reason why John Lennon was obsessed with the number nine

The number followed him everywhere

Aug 6, 2020

Echo and the Bunnymen's cosmic cover The Beatles song 'Ticket to Ride'

Revisit Echo and the Bunnymen’s cosmic cover The Beatles song ‘Ticket to Ride’

Dreamy

Aug 5, 2020