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Alas, while Martin might have only reserved express praise for those three Beatles solo albums, you also wouldn’t find him lamenting their solo careers, often crediting all four members as defying his ...

Didn’t matter. It sold 6 million copies. More than any other album that year including the Beatles. Sixty years later, the album is still iconic and still my favorite. COVERED IN CREAM Herb ...

Fifty-five years ago – on April 10, 1970 – the Beatles broke up, marking the end of one of rock 'n' roll's most prominent bands. There are several theories as to why The Beatles broke up ...

52 years ago, a pirated box set of Fab Four material cause the band's record label to release two of the best-selling greatest hits albums of all time... Here's the full story. Beatles fans were ...

If you want to know where to start with The Beatles, then we're here to help – here are their era-defining albums in order, as well as their biggest songs. This doesn't include the group's ...

One of the films referenced was "Let it Be" - the documentary about the production of the Beatles' last album. That gave an excuse for the Bootlegs to perform two of my favourite tracks that don't ...

Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today we revisit a storied piece of Beatles lore, a bootleg that ...

Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in circa 1962 ...

The recording of 1968's 'The White Album' was a tumultuous time for The Beatles. The avant-garde album was the band's follow up to their incredibly successful 1967 work 'Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts ...