After writing about the shortest songs of The Beatles, we now come to take a look at their longest songs. Considered here are those that go for no less than six minutes. Easily, this makes “Carnival of Light,” which goes for approximately thirteen minutes and forty-eight seconds (13:48), the longest among all of The Beatles’ ...
Campfires were a serious event when I was a child. As a Girl Scout, I had to earn the privilege of that once a year camp outing where we sat around consuming too many marshmallows and singing songs until our lungs burst. We worked all year to earn a myriad of badges. We sold cookies ...
You might have seen at least one of them, but did you know that the Beatles participated in no less than 5 movies? This seems an amazing feat, especially when you consider the hectic nature of their touring schedule from January of 1963 to August of 1966. Because they were in such demand, it seemed ...
The Seven Most Important Beatles Songs By Paul McCartney Too many people these days think of the Beatles as John Lennon and some other guys. The Beatles were very much a band with important contributions from all the members. Certainly the most important members were John Lennon and Paul McCartney as they wrote the lion’s ...
There is an assumption by many less knowledgeable folks (including many who are actually quite big fans of The Beatles music) that John Lennon was the principle songwriter of a great majority of The Beatles work. I think this myth has grown over the years since Lennon’s untimely death at the hands of a madman ...
Pink Floyd The Wall – Awesome animated scenes set to Pink Floyd that are broken up with live action footage so disturbing and jumpy that you will probably have to watch it a few times to understand it. The Wall has scenes of imagery inspired about Nazis, World War II Britain and a hallucinogenic state ...
Like most Beatles fans under the age of 40 or so I’ve grown to love The Beatles not from their original vinyl releases but from the stereo CDs first released in 1987 which have always been notorious among audiophiles for their poor sound quality. Now with the newly remastered Beatles box sets those of us ...
The Beatles played so many different styles of music during their career that they are often remembered and thought of completely differently by different groups of people. Some think of the early Beatles and songs like “She Loves You”, “I Want To Hold Your Hand”, and “Can’t Buy Me Love.” Others may think of mega ...