From “I Am The Walrus” to “Come Together”, quite a few of The Beatles’ biggest hits were banned by the BBC. Whether it came down to explicit lyrics or the use of branded product names, the British ...

From Maharishi Mahesh Yogi a to teenage runaways, these real people all inspired John Lennon and Paul McCartney to pick up their pens.

When Paul McCartney was a teenager, he wrote a song that looked decades into his future. “When I’m Sixty-Four” appeared on The Beatles’ 1967 album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band. Years after ...

The Beatles started a ton of trends that soon became par for the course among their rock peers. One of them was the practice of giving a song a title that wasn’t actually a part of the refrain or even ...