Thousands of babies in the 1960s were given the names John, Paul and George, according to online birth records released by FindMyPast.

FindMyPast’s recently released, fully indexed birth records have highlighted some of the weird and wonderful names given to children since 1867.Popular culture can be seen to influence some of the naming choices throughout history. […]

In music biz terms, the most notorious ‘pass’ in history was when Decca Records in the U.K. determined that The Beatles weren’t up to snuff, and decided not to sign them. Ha!! What fools!! The decision that lives in infamy, nearly 50 years after the fact.
For an A&R guy, this is the ultimate humiliation, the […]

A new milestone in music history will be created in Liverpool at this year’s Mathew Street Festival when each song from every Beatles album will be performed in sequence, live on stage.The tribute to the Fab Four on Monday, 30th August will mark 50 years since the band first played under the name of The […]

NEW YORK (CBS) Music mavens everywhere will have to put up their dukes as Rolling Stone magazine unveils its “500 Greatest Songs of All Time” in a special collector’s issue.[The list, an update of an earlier list first compiled in 2004., is sure to have people arguing over which artist or song is better.But one […]

The innovative music of the Beatles captured the love of millions and became one of the most influential music groups of all time, a musicologist told students Wednesday.The band’s strikingly complex and meaningful lyrics simultaneously attracted scores of fans while pushing the boundaries of pop music, said musicologist and Boston University professor Jeremy Yudkin.

Q.I was knocked out by the high values and endless nuances affecting those prices for the “Introducing the Beatles” album covered in your recent column.
I would very much like to have similar details and values for first state issues of “The Beatles Yesterday and Today,” with the so-called “Butcher Cover.”
 

The Beatles tribute band Rain comes to Kuss Auditorium on March 9

SPRINGFIELD — Of all the things written about The Beatles, the “Rolling Stone Album Guide” still says it best: “Not liking them is as perverse as not liking the sun.”
So when “Rain: A Tribute to The Beatles” comes to town Tuesday, March […]

 In 1962, on January 1st, the Beatles raced to London for an audition for Decca Records - the Beatles being John, Paul, George, and Pete Best. It was the Beatles’ first encounter with George Martin. Of course, as history tells it, they were rejected by Decca, saying that ‘guitar groups were on their way out.’ […]

…become THE Beatles?

THE BEATLES ON RECORD Premieres Wednesday, November 25 at 10pm ET/PT on HISTORY™

THE BEATLES ON RECORD, a new documentary premiering on HISTORY on Wednesday, November 25 at 10pm, charts The Beatles’ extraordinary recording journey from Please Please Me to the epic Abbey Road LP and reveals how they developed as musicians, matured as […]