Beatles FAQ

  "one of the Beatles' most dispensable items". [8] Run for Your Life’ I always hated ... John Lennon Lennon Remembers (1971

   "We started as a little covers band." Paul McCartney

' We started as little covers band' Paul McCartney

George Martin wanted The Beatles to release "How Do You Do It (Mitch Mitchell) for their first single. They insisted on their own composition (Love Me Do).

Until 1968, wives and girlfriends stayed away from Abbey Road whenever The Beatles were recording. 

"We all play on it; i t’s a genuine Beatles recording .  ” Paul McCartney via  Henry Grossman/Wikimedia Commons  and Apple Corps

The Beatles famously brought LSD to public attention. Less well known is that George Harrison became rapidly disillusioned with the drug.

  He was a terrible driver…with bad eyesight. John Lennon's cousin, Stan. John Lennon's Austin Maxi, the last car he ever drove

John Lennon was very short-sighted, but in his teens refused to wear spectacles in public.

The Beatles' record sales dwarfed those of Bob Dylan. In terms of musical influence, the relationship was inverse.