Beatles FAQ

Some songs do a great job of pretending to be traditional.

  The name change from the original The Quarry Men to The Beatles went through many stages and spellings.

  The Beatles only visited Japan once, arriving in the early hours of June 1966 and departing three days later. They played five concerts at the Nippon Budokan Arena . The tour faced serious challenges.

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

   There are six non-original songs on the first Beatles' LP:  Please Please Me/Introducing the Beatles .

' 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.