In case you missed it, The Beatles were featured in Episode 1 of the new cable TV series called “David Frost Vs”. The Beatles episode aired on April 27, 2025 on MSNBC. While most Beatles fans are probably aware that the famous performance of “Hey Jude” was done on David Frost’s show in 1968, they…
This February marks the 60th anniversary of The Beatles first visit to America. While fans will reminisce about their experiences witnessing Beatlemania from the outside looking in, there’s one person who has recently documented his experience from the inside looking out – none other than Paul McCartney! McCartney’s Eyes of the Storm exhibit which opened…
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…
“Now And Then” is the last Beatles song – written and sung by John Lennon, developed and worked on by Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, and now finally finished by Paul and Ringo over four decades later. Here is a brief timeline for release dates:
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…
How would you like to own a home once lived in by a Beatle? That’s what a New Hampshire second-generation Beatles fan, Ken Lambert, pondered this past November when George Harrison’s family home in Speke, Liverpool went up for auction. On a whim, Ken put in his offer for £171,000 (approximately $223,00 US) which became…
by Shelley Germeaux Note: This article has been updated as of April 14, 2023 for new information aboutPaul’s and Ringo’s ancestry, based on the 2018 book, Inside the Beatles FamilyTree by Richard A. Edmund. Fans of the Beatles know that all four lads were from Liverpool, England, but few know of their Irish heritage. As…
By Shelley L. Germeaux This article was originally published in Daytrippin’ Issue #18, Spring 2002, after George’s death. It is being republished with updated information, in honor of what would have been his 76th birthday. George Harrison’s autobiography, I Me Mine, was originally published in the fall of 1980 by Genesis Publications. At 450…
By Shelley Germeaux Note: This article originally appeared in the Spring 2002 (No. 18) issue of Daytrippin’ – just a few months after George Harrison’s death. Psychic phenomenon – precognitive dreams, strange coincidences, and intuitive hunches about people we care for – is always an interesting topic of discussion. It usually happens with relatives and…
By Ken Womack Why do the Fab Four endure when so many others fade quietly into popular music’s often unforgiving sunset? Beyond the glossy packaging and the culture (indeed, the counter-culture) of Beatlemania, what are the sonic nuances that made the Beatles a musical phenomenon for all time? As John Lennon reminded us during one…
