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When it comes to classic songs, The Beatles’ discography is arguably packed with more zingers than any other act’s. The Fab Four currently sit in second place when it comes to most number one singles (18) in their home country, just behind the very worthy first-place holder, Elvis Presley, who has 21 top hits to his name. In America, The Beatles do take top spot, with an astonishing 20 No. 1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100, just in front of Mariah Carey, with 19. Many people might not know that one of those hit Beatles singles, “Yesterday,” possesses a strange and unique history.
How Paul McCartney Came Up With “Yesterday”

Yesterday was written by Paul McCartney between 1964 and 1965, and the melody first came to him in a dream. As the story goes, McCartney had been staying at the home of his then-girlfriend, Jane Asher, in Wimpole Street, London. When he woke up one morning, the now-famous tune was running round in his head.

Initially, the singer-songwriter was convinced that it must be an already existing song. As he later recalled: “For about a month I went round to people in the music business and asked them whether they had ever heard it before. Eventually it details

Sixty-two years ago today, one of rock's most instantly recognizable songs was sitting on top of the charts, and it owed its name to an accident.

On July 23, 1964, the Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night" was No. 1 on the UK singles chart, the band's fifth chart-topper there. Within weeks it also topped the US Billboard Hot 100, making it a worldwide smash.

The title came from Ringo Starr. After a marathon day of work that stretched into the early hours, the drummer meant to say it had been a hard day, then caught himself when he noticed it was already dark and blurted, "It's been a hard day's night."John Lennon loved the phrase, and once it was picked as the title of the band's first film, he and Paul McCartney suddenly had a theme song to write on demand. Lennon wrote it overnight and brought it in the next morning, and the group recorded it days later, in April 1964.

Everything about the song announced the moment. It opens with one of the most famous chords in pop history, a bright, unresolved jangle that fans and musicians still argue over how to play. From there it races through in barely two and a half minutes, catching the Beatles at the peak of Beatlemania.

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Paul McCartney's album-closing songs were sometimes romantic pop asides, including "Warm and Beautiful" on 1976's Wings at the Speed of Sound, or story songs like "Momma Gets By" from 2026's The Boys of Dudgeon Lane. They might rock, too, as with "Nod Your Head" on 2007's Memory Almost Full.

The following ranked list tends to echo McCartney's particular genius in this way. Few could claim such thrilling variation.

For instance, McCartney never really let go of the album-closing medley concept he first oversaw on the Beatles' penultimate album, 1969's Abbey Road. He'd wrap up things with "Hold Me Tight / Lazy Dynamite / "Hands of Love" / Power Cut" on 1973's Red Rose Speedway, "Treat Her Gently – Lonely Old People / Crossroads" from 1975's Venus and Mars and "Hunt You Down/Naked/C-Link" on 2018's Egypt Station. What's Paul McCartney's Best Album Closing Song?

At the same time, McCartney wasn't always so grandiose. He played a simple acoustic guitar on closers like "Great Day" from 1997's Flaming Pie and "Winter Bird/When Winter Comes" on 2020's McCartney III.

Sometimes, he sounded almost nothing like his former self during moments like "Kreen-Akrore" on 1970's McCartney, "Motor of Love" details

Liverpool's Magical Mystery Tour has long been one of the city's most in-demand tourist attractions, with fans of The Beatles taken on a city-wide excursion to key locations in the Fab Four's story. Now it comes with added star power: Sir Paul McCartney himself.

The band's bassist made an unexpected cameo on a daily tour yesterday (July 20) when guests on the Magical Mystery bus spotted him at a set of traffic lights. After waving to fans in the serendipitous moment, they then received an added bonus when, after waving to fans, McCartney showed them that he was currently on a Facetime call with former bandmate Ringo Starr.

Speaking to the BBC, driver and tour guide Neal Morton said "it was surreal" to spot the musician while on the tour of the city.

"I had pulled up at the traffic lights on Hope Street when who should I see – Sir Paul with Ringo on Facetime", he said. "He waved to us, and everybody took photos. The passengers could not believe it."

McCartney was in town ahead of a presentation to actor Stephen Graham (Adolescence, The Irishman) with a companionship of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA); McCartney is a co-founder of the school and often attends graduation cer details

Creativity can be a capricious thing, but it can also be a euphoric experience when you're firing on all cylinders. For legendary rock band the Beatles, recording their debut album Please Please Me was like a fever dream and a swirling storm of creativity all in one. Why? Because the entire process took only 12 hours.

The band's producer, George Martin, also known as the "fifth Beatle," booked EMI Studios (later known as Abbey Road Studios) for the day on Feb. 11, 1963. Originally, the plan was to record Please Please Me at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, but Martin deemed it unsuitable.

The four-piece rock outfit started the day at 10 a.m. with "There's a Place," written primarily by John Lennon but credited under the McCartney-Lennon partnership. They barreled through the 14-track album, a mix of original and cover songs.

When 10 p.m. rolled around (at which point the studio was supposed to close), the Beatles recorded their last tune, their cover of "Twist and Shout." Lennon was suffering from a cold that day and was treating his sore throat with lozenges. Naturally, "Twist and Shout" was a behemoth to get through for him. You can hear it in his performance—his voice sounds raw, almost primal. It' details

Were we to take bets on the sin­gle most wide­ly heard alarm clock, the one includ­ed on the Bea­t­les’ “A Day in the Life” would sure­ly be a pop­u­lar choice. It comes, you’ll recall, at the begin­ning of the song’s mid­dle sec­tion, when Paul takes over from John and sings about wak­ing up, comb­ing his hair, catch­ing a bus, and hav­ing a smoke. Giv­en the lyrics’ sub­ject mat­ter, its inclu­sion seems nat­ur­al, and even like one of the most straight­for­ward­ly explic­a­ble choic­es in the entire record­ing. In fact, the alarm clock was nev­er meant to stay in the mix: the band’s assis­tant Mal Evans set it off as a gag after doing a place­hold­er count of 24 mea­sures in the mid­dle of the ses­sions, but it just hap­pened to work per­fect­ly with the form the song even­tu­al­ly took.

That’s just one of the for­tu­itous acci­dents music YouTu­ber David Hart­ley recounts in the video above, on the com­plete mak­ing of “A Day in the Life.” As most Bea­t­les fan details

Since Barry Keoghan and the rest of the Beatles biopic cast were announced, fans have questioned whether they will live up to the iconic stature of the original band members. In 2024, Sam Mendes set out on the difficult task of bringing the Beatles' epic story to life through four separate biopics, each focusing on a different member of the world-famous band. The "Skyfall" director picked the four young, popular British and Irish actors of the moment to play them, with Keoghan selected to portray beloved drummer Ringo Starr. The BBC reported in 2024 that the former Beatle fully approved of the upcoming biopic, but the iconic star from the '60s, who's still working today, has since elaborated on his feelings.

In July 2026, Starr enthusiastically told TMZ, "He's such a fine actor, I think I'm in good hands." The musician's public approval came after personally meeting with Keoghan twice. "He came to the house for a couple of hours one day, and we just hung out like real people," Starr confirmed. "And he took away whatever he took away." Paul McCartney, a longtime friend of Ringo Starr and the only other remaining Beatle, similarly approved of fellow Irish actor, and Oscar nominee, Paul Mescal to play him onscreen. As the details

George Harrison, remembered as the quiet yet deeply thoughtful member of The Beatles, left behind not only timeless music but also words that continue to resonate with meaning. His artistry extended beyond melodies into reflections on life, spirituality, and human nature, making him one of the most influential musicians of his generation.

George Harrison Quote: His quote, “As long as you hate, there will be people to hate,” captures a profound truth about the cycle of negativity. It is a reminder that hatred does not exist in isolation but perpetuates itself, creating more division and conflict.

The context of this quote reflects Harrison’s lifelong search for peace and spiritual understanding. Influenced by Indian philosophy and meditation, he often spoke about the importance of love, compassion, and inner harmony. His words here point to the destructive nature of hatred, showing how it feeds on itself and continues as long as people allow it to.

The meaning is straightforward yet powerful. Hatred attracts more hatred, and the more it is practiced, the more it grows. Harrison’s message is that breaking this cycle requires conscious choice, replacing hostility with understanding a details

The director’s new film, “John Lennon: The Last Interview,” uses a never-before-released radio interview Lennon and Yoko Ono recorded inside the Dakota Apartments on December 8, 1980, the same day Lennon was killed. By the end of its premiere, though, much of the discussion had shifted away from John Lennon entirely and toward artificial intelligence.

The documentary mixes archival photographs, audio recordings, and experimental visuals to recreate the atmosphere of the conversation. What has sparked immediate controversy is that Meta AI helped generate some of the visuals.

Soderbergh openly acknowledged that partnering with Meta on an AI-assisted film was guaranteed to irritate people. And critics at the festival largely targeted the movie’s surreal visual sequences, which appear during moments where Lennon drifts into abstract discussions about creativity, identity, and human behavior. Rather than attempting realistic recreations, the film cuts to dreamlike imagery, including flowers dissolving into geometric patterns, shifting pools of light, and painterly moving textures that feel closer to an experimental art installation than a traditional music documentary.

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Paul McCartney has been a mainstay in the songwriting industry since the early 1960s. Over those many, many decades in the business, McCartney has contributed some of the all-time greatest additions to the pop music canon. However, of those many decades, we’d argue that one five-year period was more impressive than others.

From 1970 to 1975, McCartney was undergoing several life transitions. The Beatles broke up. He was a new husband and father. The musician was, in many ways, shedding one identity and growing into another. And it was during this heavy experimentation that McCartney was at his best.
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 “Band On The Run” (1974)

Kicking off this list of all-time greatest Paul McCartney songs is, expectedly, “Band On The Run” from the 1973 album of the same name. Released as a single the following spring, this iconic Wings track saw McCartney experimenting in real time. With distinct, separate grooves ranging from soulful R&B to easy listening to driving rock ‘n’ roll, “Band On The Run” was the natural consequence of giving McCartney the freedom to stretch his legs with no restrictions.
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From Mariah Carey and Taylor Swift to legendary icons like the Rolling Stones and Elvis Presley, countless artists have topped the Billboard charts—but only one holds the record for the most No. 1 singles and albums.

Billboard released its list of which music acts have the most Billboard 200 and Hot 100 No.1s in history combined, with the winner at the very top, none other than the Beatles. Based on the charts to July 18, 2026, they concluded that the legendary rock band has surpassed other hit icons like Michael Jackson, Madonna, and even band memberPaul McCartney/Wings.

Since their start in Liverpool in 1960, the Beatles have been reported to have had 20 No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart during their career. As well as 19 No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 chart. In retrospect, the band released 12-13 albums during their run, with Billboard including a few hit soundtracks in their list.

Their list of No. 1 albums includes the very beginning with Meet the Beatles! and all the way up until Anthology 3. The last album was released in 1996 as a compilation and catalogs tracks from the final two years of the band, from the initial sessions for The White Album to sessions from Let It Be and Abbe details

When Philip Norman was working on “Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation,” his landmark 1981 biography of the Beatles, writing about pop music was seen as a little disreputable. “I was told I was mad,” he said. “I didn’t like to mention the word ‘Beatles.’ I was embarrassed.” Today, it’s a much different landscape, and books about pop music are big business.

Books about the Beatles are still best sellers, even more than 50 years since the band broke up. There are scholarly, sober books such as Mark Lewisohn’s “All These Years,” whose first, nearly 800-page volume takes the story only up to 1962, the cleaned-up, bowdlerized history in Hunter Davies’ authorized 1968 “The Beatles” and sordid, sensationalist tripe like Albert Goldman’s “The Lives of John Lennon.” Wikipedia currently lists 43 books about the band, and that doesn’t include books by people who worked with the Beatles, such as “All You Need Is Ears,” by George Martin.

One figure that has been left behind is Brian Epstein, the Beatles’ gay, Jewish manager. With “Mr. Moonlight: Brian Epstein and the Making of th details

Paul McCartney performed a surprise show on the Ed Sullivan Theater marquee in New York.

McCartney was at the theater to appear on The Late Show with David Letterman. His appearance took place 45 years after The Beatles made their debut at the same theater on The Ed Sullivan Show.

McCartney treated the crowd gathered on the streets of New York to seven songs, including “Get Back,” “Sing The Changes,” “Coming Up,” “Band On The Run,” “Let Me Roll It,” “Helter Skelter” and “Back In The U.S.S.R.”

McCartney returned to the Ed Sullivan Theater in May for the final episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

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Sometimes rock stars are going to geek out just like we do, and with an event as big as this one, it makes sense someone like Paul McCartney would have to see it. Of course, I'm talking about Bon Jovi's return to the stage after lead singer Jon Bon Jovi's massive vocal surgery.

The band haven't been active since 2022, when Bon Jovi needed to undergo a major vocal surgery after his voice was beginning to decay. The recent set of shows at Madison Square Garden have been the band's first shows in a long time, and fans have been absolutely delighted.  As it turns out, "fans" includes former Beatle Paul McCartney, who was spotted in attendance at one of the recent Bon Jovi shows in New York.

Not only is he there, but he looks pretty into it! Pointing on beat with the song while also singing along with the crowd is super relatable. It's awesome to see that such a legend can let go and enjoy himself at a show like this.  Fans felt similarly, being super charmed by seeing McCartney let go and just be a fan in the crowd like the rest of us. Taking to the comments, they shared their thoughts.

"That's a big compliment having Sir Paul McCartney at your concert, and his wife is totally jamming alo details

Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr recently recorded their first duet on the song “Home to Us,” which appears on Mr. McCartney’s new album “The Boys of Dungeon Lane,” news outlets report.

Mr. Starr initially joined Mr. McCartney to play drums on his album but ended up sharing full vocal credits with Mr. McCartney for the first time in their more than 50-year solo careers after The Beatles’ breakup in 1970.

Mr. Starr told People magazine at his 86th birthday event that although they’d sung on each other’s tracks before as fellow bandmates, this was the first time they’d done a song together “like a couple.”

The song reflects on their working-class Liverpool roots, with Mr. McCartney referencing Mr. Starr’s upbringing in England’s rough Dingle neighborhood.

In a statement, Mr. McCartney said the song reflects the theme of rising up from humble beginnings, recalling that Mr. Starr “used to get mugged coming home,” because he worked.

“Home to Us” is the second single released from the album, following “Days We Left Behind.”

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