* It’s no secret that The Beatles were huge fans of Elvis Presley. John Lennon famously said in an interview: “Before Elvis, there was nothing.” John Lennon credited Elvis as the reason he became a musician. “We all loved Elvis – he was so hot,” Paul McCartney gushed years later. “We were just so in…
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At over 500 pages, the new book, Living the Beatles Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans, will take months and even years for Beatles fans to digest. We finally have the missing puzzle piece to the Beatles story. Here was a man — The Beatles’ long-time roadie, personal assistant, and devoted friend — that…
Like John Lennon who had a healthy obsession for Elvis Presley, Paul McCartney had his own epiphany about The King of Rock and Roll in 1956 and started playing the guitar. “I started to see pictures of Elvis, and that started to pull me away from the academic path,” McCartney recalled. “‘You should see these…
Surprisingly, inflation did not play a role in the fee The Beatles were paid for performing on The Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964. When compared to the amount Elvis Presley was paid, $50,000 for three performances in late 1956/early 1957, The Beatles worked for peanuts, a measly $10,000 for three shows. The fact is…
It’s no secret that John Lennon was a huge fan of Elvis Presley when he was a teenager. Lennon formed his first band, The Quarrymen, which would later become The Beatles, as a result of his love for Elvis Presley and rock and roll. “Without Elvis, there would be no Beatles,” John Lennon stated matter-of-factly…
Most people think that The Beatles and Elvis Presley were rivals in the music business. However, it was quite the opposite. The Beatles, of course, looked up to Elvis as their biggest musical idol. But as soon as Beatlemania hit the States in 1964, it was rumored that Elvis Presley, The King of Rock and Roll,…
