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The Beatles were a many-splendored project. In addition to the core writing duo of Paul McCartney and John Lennon – one of the most successful partnerships in pop history – the group boasted the inventive drumming of Ringo Starr, and the artistry of George Harrison.

While the initially taciturn guitarist would later embrace spirituality, perhaps his greatest development was as a songwriter – while his initial work was done “as an exercise”, George Harrison quickly gained confidence. Indeed, his song ‘Here Comes The Sun’ is actually the most-streamed Beatles classic on Spotify.

Yet it wasn’t always like that. When The Beatles crafted the soundtrack for their film A Hard Day’s Night, they spotted that George Harrison perhaps needed a little more focus.

Lennon & McCartney went into action, and the song ‘I’m Happy Just To Dance With You’ came into being.

“We wrote ‘I’m Happy Just To Dance With You’ for George in the film. It was a bit of a formula song,” McCartney told biographer Barry Miles. “We knew that in E if you went to an A flat minor, you could always make a song with those chords; details

The original contract for The Beatles to perform at one of their Hamburg residencies is expected to fetch up to 30,000 euros ($39,950) at auction.  Drummer Pete Best played in the band’s first stint at the Star-Club from April 13 to May 31,1962, after previous trips to the then-West German city to hone their craft.

The Beatles played the opening night of the new club which had a capacity for 2,000 people.  When The Beatles returned in November 1962, Ringo Starr was the drummer after their manager Brian Epstein sacked Best three months earlier.

The contract for the residence between Nov. 1 and Nov. 14 stipulated The Beatles would perform three hours a day in separate stints with an hour’s break after every performance.

The group went on to perform seven days a week with a weekly payment of 600 Deutsche Marks to each band member.  In total, they played for 42 hours and also shared a bill with Little Richard.

The contract was signed in black ink by Epstein and in black felt-tipped pen by Star-Club owner Manfred Weissleder.  They had another residency at the Star-Club from Dec. 18 to New Year’s Eve 1962 before stardom followed.

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Paul McCartney either wrote or co-wrote hundreds of songs for The Beatles during their heyday. It’s almost impossible to pick out his very best songs; each of his songwriting credits appeals to different people for different reasons. That being said, we think these four particular Beatles tracks prove that Paul McCartney is a truly genius songwriter!

4 Tracks That Prove Ringo Starr Is a Genius Drummer

1. “Blackbird”

Few artists can dedicate a song to a struggling group of people with as much tact and reverence as McCartney did with the 1968 track “Blackbird”. McCartney said that he wrote this soothing, beautiful song for black women in the United States who were struggling amidst the Civil Rights Movement. It’s one of McCartney’s few solo performances recorded under The Beatles’ name.

2. “Yesterday”

Paul McCartney has historically been a genius songwriter partly because he knows his way around a ballad. “Yesterday” is one of his greatest works, and it also happens to be one of the most covered songs of all time. This song’s melody is one of the most recognizable of the 20th century. McCartney’s details

It wouldn’t be unreasonable to assume the Rolling Stones got their big break because of their musical prowess or charisma, but doing so would erase an integral player in landing the Stones’ first record deal: George Harrison. While he was enjoying the Beatles’ massive upswing in the early 1960s, the “Quiet Beatle” seized an opportunity to speak up about the Stones, effectively dragging his fellow English rockers along for the ride to stardom.

Indeed, without Harrison’s help, there is a chance the Rolling Stones might have never made it out of their dimly lit nightclub circuit.

In the early days of Beatlemania, the Fab Four would split up to cover more ground as they embarked on publicity ventures and guest appearances. One such endeavor led George Harrison to his native Liverpool, where he served as a judge in a “Beat Group” talent show. Local bands competed for a chance to secure a record deal with Decca Records, whose president, Dick Rowe, was also a judge.

After Harrison and Rowe watched a few hopeful competitors, the Beatle began complaining to the record executive that none of the Liverpudlian wannabe rockers held a candle to a band the Fab Four had r details

The early rivalry between the Beatles and the Rolling Stones was, for the most part, a healthy one—except for the time Stones frontman Mick Jagger heard a Beatles song on the radio that made him “sick.” The song in question came out in 1962, one year before the Stones released their debut single.

Over two decades later, Jagger introduced the Beatles during their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. During his speech, he described what it felt like going green around the gills after hearing the Beatles’ hit track.  This Beatles Song Made Mick Jagger “Sick”

Mick Jagger set up his story by painting a scene of early 1960s England. American pop overwhelmingly dominated the U.K. charts, and skiffle and rock music were still underground. “At that point, the Stones were playing in these little clubs in London doing Chuck Berry songs and blues and things.”

“We were a pretty scruffy lot,” Jagger smirked. “We thought that we were totally unique. Animals! I mean, there was no one like us. And then, we heard there was a group from Liverpool. They had long hair, scruffy clothes, but they had a record contract.”

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We haven’t had much of an update about Sam Mendes’ ‘Beatles’ movies. However, the latest bit of info is coming to us from Production List, and it lists a July 2025 shoot in London.

Four separate theatrical films, one on each of the members of music’s most famous and enduring band, The Beatles’ Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon and George Harrison. They’ll tell interconnected stories, one from each band member’s point of view.

Mendes plans to release all four of his upcoming Beatles movies on the same date (via TheInSneider). Is this a good idea? Obviously, most people will first and foremost pay to see the John Lennon and Paul McCartney movies, then George Harrison and finally Ringo Starr. That’s just how it’ll go down.

If Sony does end up releasing all four films at once, then it would save them plenty on marketing costs. Mendes is directing all four, and although no casting has been formally announced, Harris Dickinson (John Lennon), Paul Mescal (Paul McCartney), Barry Keoghan (Ringo Starr), and Charlie Rowe (George Harrison) have all been rumored.

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If The Beatles taught us nothing else, it’s that they were unafraid to follow their muses wherever they might have led, even if that took them way outside the established boundaries of rock and roll. And if that also meant that things got a bit weird at times, well that was part of the deal.

These are five Beatles songs that wear like their bizarre nature like a badge of honor. Let’s look back in chronological order.
“Good Morning Good Morning” from Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)

On the surface, this Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band track isn’t all that weird. It’s got a peppy rhythmic pulse and some sly John Lennon lyrics about the boredom of everyday life (a pervasive theme on that album). But then there are the little touches the band adds that take this one into strange territory. First, there’s the decision to suddenly switch to the German language at the end of the refrain: Good morning, good morning, gut. Even odder is the wild cacophony of animal noises tacked onto the end of the song.
“Blue Jay Way” from Magical Mystery Tour (1967)

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He does think the world needs 'more not less Taylor Swifts' even if he's not personally a fan of her music

The son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono has been praising Taylor Swift, though he admitted there was one lyric in one of her songs which made him 'uncomfortable'.

Seán Ono Lennon took to social media recently to say that, while he'd never been a fan of Swift's music and didn't really know her songs, he thought she 'should be respected and in fact treasured'. His post seemed to hit out at Donald Trump's Truth Social post on 15 September where he wrote: "I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!"

That had followed Swift's endorsement of his opponent in the US presidential race, Kamala Harris. Plenty had been waiting to see whether Swift would go as far as endorsing the Democrats as she did at the last election, and in a lengthy Instagram post she hit out at AI generated images of her claiming she was endorsing Trump.

Instead, Swift has endorsed Harris to be the next US president and signed off as a 'childless cat lady', mocking a comment made by Trump's vice-president pick, JD Vance.

Now you've got all that context, Seán Ono Lennon wrote on Twitter: "I have never been a fan of her music, although details

McCartney is still getting high with a little help from his friends.

Paul McCartney crashed Black-ish star Deon Cole’s stand-up set at the Hollywood Improv on Sept. 17 after both reportedly “got high” backstage.

"I got high with my friend tonight, and we had a good time,” Cole told the crowd before telling them to “please give it up for my friend, Paul McCartney." As the surprised audience applauded the legendary musician’s arrival, McCartney leaned in and whispered a few words in Cole’s ear.

"I had to smoke, and that's why this is happening," Cole told the crowd. “See, you never know,” the comedian said of the show’s unpredictable roster. "And y'all motherf---ers did not give no love to me at all tonight,” he joked.

Far from a passive audience member, McCartney came armed with notes. “I’ve just enjoyed seeing you work through this material,” he told Cole. “And you’re right, some of it bombed,” he joked as the audience laughed. “But you got the gems in there, man, that’s great,” he added.

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John Lennon privately informed Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr that he was leaving The Beatles, although the news was initially kept quiet, as the band was about to sign a new recording contract.

McCartney then publicly announced his own departure in April 1970 as he released his debut solo album, angering Lennon, who later shared, “I started the band. I disbanded it. It’s as simple as that.”

The Beatles officially disbanded following McCartney’s announcement. They released their final album, Let It Be, one month after their breakup, although it was recorded before their previous album, Abbey Road, which came out in September 1969.

Although Lennon died in 1980 and George Harrison passed in 2001, The Beatles released a new song, “Now and Then,” in 2023, which used vocals Lennon recorded on a demo in the late ’70s, along with guitar Harrison recorded in the mid-’90s, and new recordings from McCartney and Starr.

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Although best known for his work in the pop world (particularly with The Beatles), producer Sir George Martin had a lifelong love of classical music which he put to great use over his career.

Born and raised in North London, Martin saved up for piano lessons as a teenager, desperate to perform the piano sonatas of Beethoven and Mozart. At school, meanwhile, Martin's interest in classical music was further fuelled by a visit from the London Symphony Orchestra and their conductor Adrian Boult.

After serving in the Royal Navy during World War Two, Martin consolidated his grounding in music, studying composition, conducting and orchestration at the Guildhall School of Music. He also took up the oboe to ‘earn a bit of living’ – in later years, he cited Mozart’s Oboe Quartet, K370 as one of his favourite pieces.  Martin spent a brief time after his graduation working in the BBC’s classical music department, before his move to Parlophone records in London (a subsidiary of EMI) in 1950. At this time, he developed an interest in comedy recordings. In one of these, the actor Peter Ustinov sang in a 'mock' Mozartian opera style.

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Though their run was short, the Beatles amassed a career that left them with very little to regret. Though they might have had qualms shortly after their infamous breakup, in hindsight, it was a pretty stellar tenure. In fact, if Ringo Starr regrets anything it’s that they didn’t push harder to get back together. Learn more about why Starr wished he got the band back together before it was too late, below.

There was never an official Beatles reunion. The individual band members joined forces from time to time, but they never operated under that banner again. Any hopes of that happening were dashed in 1980, when John Lennon was murdered by Mark David Chapman.

Then, a couple of decades later, George Harrison passed away after a battle with lung cancer. His death firmly cemented that any Beatles reunion that might happen in the future would only be halfway complete.

Even before their breakup and those losses happened, the band had taken a step back from touring. After years of playing countless shows with roaring fans, the foursome felt their touring life had grown too complex and difficult to manage. Their solution to that problem was to retire from the stage entirely.

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The Beatles’ arduous breakup often overshadows the love and camaraderie the Fab Four had for one another, but John Lennon’s go-to pep talk for cheering up the band in their early years is a heartwarming window into a time before fame, scandal, and psychedelics. Pre-Beatlemania and post-Quarrymen, the future Fab Four were hard-working musicians trying to cut their teeth.

And as anyone who has tried to dedicate their lives to music for any amount of time can attest, that endeavor can be taxing on the spirit. When that happened for the Beatles, Lennon stepped in. John Lennon’s final major interview took place in his New York City home in August 1980, just three months before Mark David Chapman would murder the ex-Beatle on the front steps of that very residence. In the sprawling conversation, Lennon talks about his perception of himself, his former band, nearly every Beatles tune, and musings that oscillate between profound and vain.

While discussing his general outlook on life, Lennon offered an example of his optimism in the face of hardship—something he exercised often throughout his tragically short life. He subtly references his “motto” in “Strawberry Fields Forever&rd details

Ringo Starr may have contributed the least in terms of songwriting to The Beatles, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t a stellar drummer. In fact, there are a few songs by the Fab Four through the years that really showcase his drumming talent. Let’s look into four times Ring Starr proved he was a genius drummer for The Beatles!
1. “Something”

“Something” is one of George Harrison’s best songwriting efforts, and even marginal fans consider it one of The Beatles’ very best songs. Ringo Starr shines as a drummer on this track with drum fills that are both simple but very prominent. If you get a chance to listen to the isolated drum track, it’s really impressive. His iconic “slinging shoulder” influenced a number of rock drummers who followed in his footsteps as well.
2. “She Said, She Said”

John Lennon penned this tune for the 1966 album Revolver. One could say this song marked the band’s departure from pop music fodder and their entrance into psychedelic, experimental works. Due to an in-studio argument, Paul McCartney left and isn’t featured on the recorded track. However, Starr managed to make up for his absence details