This page matters on BeatlesFan.Club because the 1979 companion LP, The Songs Lennon And McCartney Gave Away, was never the whole story. It gathered many important outside recordings, but it also left out several notable Beatles-era giveaways and a few…
“The Songs Lennon And McCartney Gave Away” matters on BeatlesFan.Club because it does more than gather curiosities. It shows how John Lennon and Paul McCartney functioned not only as the Beatles’ songwriters, but also as suppliers of material to artists…
Giles Martin matters on BeatlesFan.Club because no one has done more to shape how modern listeners hear the Beatles in the twenty-first century. He is not simply the son of George Martin and not just a caretaker of old tapes….
“Granny music” matters on BeatlesFan.Club because it was never just a lazy insult thrown at Paul McCartney. John Lennon used the phrase dismissively, but it points to a real and important strand in McCartney’s writing: songs shaped by music hall,…
“Thingumybob” matters on BeatlesFan.Club because it is one of the oddest and most revealing side roads in Paul McCartney‘s 1968 work. It was not a Beatles recording, not a chart smash, and not a standard pop single. Instead, it was…
“I Lost My Little Girl” matters on BeatlesFan.Club because it was not just one more forgotten early Paul McCartney song. It was the first song he ever wrote, created while he was still a teenager, before the Beatles had made…
20 Forthlin Road matters on BeatlesFan.Club because it was not just Paul McCartney’s childhood address. It was one of the most important working spaces in early Beatles history: a modest post-war Liverpool house where John Lennon and Paul McCartney met,…
Barbara Bach matters on BeatlesFan.Club because she is more than a footnote as Ringo Starr’s wife. She had her own international career before she entered the Beatles orbit, most famously as Anya Amasova in the 1977 Bond film The Spy…
The Beatles Mashup By Harry Nilsson matters on BeatlesFan.Club because Harry Nilsson’s “You Can’t Do That” is far more than an ordinary Beatles cover. Released on Pandemonium Shadow Show in 1967, it turns one Lennon-McCartney song into a medley-collage packed…
The More Popular Than Jesus Quote matters on BeatlesFan.Club because it was not simply one reckless John Lennon remark. It became one of the clearest examples of how quickly a Beatles story could change once it crossed from Britain into…
