On Friday, May 19th, 1967, the Beatles turned up at Brian Epstein’s house at 24 Chapel Street in London for one of the most incredible coming out parties of all time. The occasion was a press launch ahead of the June 1st release date for Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. The Beatles’ manager pulled […]
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Everything Fab Four: The Last Days Of Lennon And McCartney
One of the saddest facts of John Lennon’s senseless murder in December 1980—and there are many, to be sure—is that his killer robbed him of the opportunity to grow old, to rethink his relationships and perspectives as we all inevitably do with the passage of time. Yesterday marks the 41st anniversary of John and Paul’s […]
Everything Fab Four: “With Love, From Me To You”
On April 11, 1963—54 years ago today—the Beatles released their third single, “From Me to You” b/w “Thank You Girl.” With the group following closely on the heels of “Please Please Me” with yet another UK chart-topper, “From Me to You” proved to be an early success in what would eventually come to be known […]
Everything Fab Four: Sprinkling “Flowers In The Dirt”
“My Brave Face” clearly stands as the high point of McCartney’s post-Beatles songwriting partnerships. As the 10th and latest release in the Paul McCartney Archive Collection, Flowers in the Dirt makes for an interesting, if dubious installment. The previous entries have included a spate of Wings classics like Band on the Run and Wings Over […]
Everything Fab Four: Love, Love, Love—The Beatles and Saint Valentine’s Day
Saint Valentine’s Day’s longstanding associations with romantic love find their origins in fourteenth-century courtly love traditions. For the twentieth-century Beatles, the trials and tribulations of romantic love were their stock-in-trade—particularly during the band’s early years. Back in the heady days of Beatlemania, Lennon and McCartney mined romantic love for all its worth, celebrating the first […]