What is the most recorded song of all time?
57 Wimpole Street where Paul lived with the Asher family
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Which songs did The Beatles record in German?
The Beatles learned some very basic, functional German while in Hamburg. They were resolutely English in their approach to pronunciation, intonation and attempting to mimic accent.
Biggest crowd at a Beatles Concert?
On July 4th 1966, The Beatles played two concerts in the Philippines as part of what would be their final world tour. These took place over a single afternoon and evening at the Rizal Stadium, Manila.
Which songs did The Beatles cover?
We didn’t sing our own songs in the early days — they weren’t good enough, John Lennon We started as a little covers band, Paul McCartney
John Lennon's middle name?
Julia Lennon (née Stanley) gave birth to her first child, John Winston Lennon, at Liverpool Maternity Hospital during the early hours of 9 October, 1940.
How did George learn guitar?
Slim Whitman with his Gibson - the sound George aspired to. George tried to teach himself [the guitar]. But he wasn’t making much headway. ‘I’ll never learn this,’ he used to say. I said, ‘You will, son, you will. Just keep at it.’ Louise Harrison, the mother of George
Is Yesterday about Paul's mother?
Paul & Mary McCartney Paul McCartney has recently suggested a ‘subconscious’ inspiration for the line I said something wrong/Now I long for yesterday was his regret at once chiding his mother for ‘talking posh’:
Who was rejected for the Sergeant Pepper album cover?
The collage on the cover of Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band shows a gathering of over 70 famous figures, cultural icons, and waxworks. How were the people chosen? The organising principle is that The Beatles have chosen who will feature. Their choices are engagingly random. English comic Tommy Handley shares the stage with Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, for example. Very much alive, Fred Astaire is next to the long-dead nineteenth-century author, Edgar Allan Poe. Film star Sophia Loren is in the image - but you can't see her. She and fellow Italian Marcello Mastroianni are hidden behind the waxworks of The Beatles. Who missed out? Changes were made right up to the last moment. Some very unlikely options were considered. A cardboard cut-out of Hitler was produced but (wisely) removed from the photoshoot at the last minute. Brian Epstein rejected John Lennon's suggestion of Jesus. He did not wish to reignite the controversy of the p...