“It was like going back 60 years... You can imagine what it would have sounded like in the Cavern”: Could this be Lennon’s first Vox? By Will Simpson published 12 July 24 Rare AC15 purportedly owned by the Beatle turns up on auction site
"John was annoyed because I didn’t say that he had written one line of this song, Taxman… I also didn’t say how I wrote two lines to Come Together or three lines to Eleanor Rigby”: George Harrison and the questions around his Beatles credits By Neil Crossley published 2 July 24 "I think in the balance I would have had more things to be niggled with him about than he would have with me"
Getting better: 5 key ways the Beatles can help improve your guitar playing By Leigh Fuge published 22 June 24 The school of George, John and Paul is in session
"The Beatles were never afraid to experiment with their chord choices inside songs": here are 4 to inspire your guitar playing By Leigh Fuge published 20 June 24 While my Am7/G gently weeps
"I remember it to this day, you know, exactly where I was when he said it": Paul McCartney's favourite song he's ever written is possibly the only one John Lennon ever complimented him on directly By Rob Laing published 19 June 24 "It really gave me a lot of confidence in that song, and in my writing"
"It's very hard for people to understand how monolithic it was, looking at it today. But it was absolutely earthshaking": Was 9 February 1964 the most important day in rock 'n' roll history? By Rob Laing published 12 June 24 "It was kind of like an alien invasion"
"We were getting more talented and George began to write lots of songs… he was lucky to get a track on an album." The lost 1971 John Lennon and Yoko Ono interview on the Beatles' split when they insisted Michael Parkinson wore a black sack over his head By Rob Laing published 2 June 24 "It's total communication if you're in the bag"
“Like finding a lost Rembrandt or Picasso... It still looks and plays like a dream”: Lennon’s Framus acoustic is sold for $2.9 million By Will Simpson published 30 May 24 It was lost for over half a century
"I know me and I know my playing... and then there's Rain": The Beatles' greatest b-side was ahead of its time, but it also exposed a difference of perspective between Lennon and McCartney By Rob Laing published 27 April 24 Rain features some of the greatest individual performances by the four Beatles while sounding like it was beamed from the future
"I never intended the statement to mean 'Paul McCartney quits Beatles'... It was all a misunderstanding. I just thought 'Christ, what have I done? Now we’re in for it'": The day the world learned the Fab Four were over By Will Groves published 10 April 24 McCartney spilled the beans on this day in 1970