Bibek Acharya
- Rock Music , The beatles
- May 13, 2025
- 38 views
The Beatles and the Civil Rights Movement: How the Fab Four fought racial segregation in 1964
It’s distressing and difficult to reconcile that even as recently as the 1960s, audiences in the US and the UK remained racially segregated. While the UK never officially enforced segregation,…
- Rock Music , The beatles
- May 13, 2025
- 70 views
Why did The Beatles break up?
The Beatles played their first concert on a warm August evening at Liverpool’s Jacaranda Club in 1960. They officially broke up just under ten years later when, on April 10th,…
- John Lennon , Rock Music , The beatles
- May 13, 2025
- 58 views
The Beatles song that parodied their heroes: “They didn’t even put our name on the record”
It’s not hard to find traces of other artists in the music of The Beatles. For every innovation they put to tape, there’s always a Carl Perkins guitar lick or…
- Paul McCartney , Rock Music , The beatles
- May 12, 2025
- 89 views
‘Let It Be’: How Paul McCartney defied The Beatles’ attitudes with one defining song
When everything started to cave in on The Beatles‘ empire, it wasn’t just that they were losing steam. Alongside the creative differences and frustrations, Paul McCartney was the only one…
- John Lennon , The beatles
- May 12, 2025
- 42 views
From The Beatles to Broken: the curious story of John Lennon’s Mellotron
Before analogue synthesisers began to dominate 1970s rock, the instrument of choice for the era’s prog heavyweights was the novel Mellotron keyboard. Famed for its uniquely weathered and warm textures,…
- Rock Music , The beatles
- March 24, 2025
- 53 views
The Beatles songs Paul McCartney wishes he could delete from history
The Beatles were, are, and always will be the most famous band in all of rock music history. That’s the standard statement that rolls off the tongue, and it is,…
The Island Records story: how a shipwreck led to Bob Marley and the reggae explosion
- August 14, 2025
- 28 views
Amy Winehouse’s greatest cover reveals more than any song could
- August 12, 2025
- 75 views
‘Got to Get You into My Life’: The Beatles’ impassioned homage to Motown
- August 12, 2025
- 77 views
The song David Gilmour called too wordy to sing
- August 12, 2025
- 46 views