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Feb 9, 2014 · The Beatles’ vocal quality can be described as hoarsely incoherent, with the minimal enunciation necessary to communicate the schematic texts. Two theories were offered in at least one...
Jan 31, 2014 · Even before their controversial statements of later years, the Beatles had earned a sizeable crowd of angry critics. David Susskind, a popular talk-show host, called them “the most repulsive group of men I’ve ever seen.”
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By the time McCartney made it official, every Beatle had quit at least once. Harrison was the first to threaten to walk out back in 1966, just four years after “Love Me Do”, insisting that he’d only continue in the band if they stopped touring. As their fame exploded, their live shows had become messy and inaudible above the screaming. McCartney ha...
Behind the scenes, the empire was teetering. Since the death of manager Brian Epstein from an accidental sleeping pill overdose in August 1967, the band were left to run their Apple Corps business themselves, for which they were woefully unprepared. Initially founded in 1967 as a tax shelter, Apple was intended to discover new musical talent as wel...
The desire to “get back to where you once belonged” wasn’t just shared by Jojo and Sweet Loretta Martin, it was a subliminal mission statement for Let It Be. In the hope of rekindling the band’s old Hamburg cohesion, McCartney suggested they return to their rock and blues roots for a project provisionally entitled “Get Back”. The idea was for direc...
On 8 September 1969, McCartney, Lennon and Harrison met to decide The Beatles’ future, and vent long-held frustrations. With a glut of material, both Harrison and Lennon were tired of having to fight McCartney for the chance to record their songs so Lennon suggested a more democratic approach to the next album – an equal-rights songwriting split of...
Their break-up is attributed to numerous factors, including: the strain of the Beatlemania phenomenon, the 1967 death of manager Brian Epstein, bandmates' resentment of McCartney's perceived domineering behaviour, Lennon's heroin use and his relationship with Yoko Ono, Harrison's increasingly prolific songwriting, the floundering of Apple Corps,...
Sep 9, 2012 · The Beatles had lost the publishing of the songs they had written. The group were resigned to selling their shares to ATV. In the coming weeks Klein continued to negotiate with Grade.
Aug 17, 2024 · When The Beatles rejected the song during a particularly fractious session, Harrison decided to pass the material along to Billy Preston before rightly taking it back for his debut solo album. If there was one track to confirm that Harrison needed to leave the band and pursue his own material, it is certainly ‘All Things Must Pass’.
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Jul 23, 2024 · Fierce disagreements over whose songs would feature on forthcoming Beatles albums seemed impossible to resolve. Speaking to Melody Maker magazine in 1970, Lennon stated that the band had too much material, given Harrison’s dramatically increased songwriting output.
