Paul McCartney told Billboard two people heard “Help!” before the public did. “I turned up at John’s house for a writing session and saw the opportunity to add a descant [melody in the second verse],” ...

Songs with word by The Beatles have never failed to delight their listeners. Now many of those songs are delighting library-goers as well. Mark Phillips takes us browsing: On a busy road in London ...

John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr began filming the second Beatles movie on Feb. 23, 1965. The project was originally named Eight Arms to Hold You, an innocent but prophetic ...

The Beatles were given the opportunity to make another film after the runaway commercial and critical success of their first one, A Hard Day's Night. Their second movie, Help!, had its world premiere ...

The Beatles’ songs contain some of the most famous lyrics in the history of classic rock music. During interviews, John Lennon and Paul McCartney said The Beatles would often use these two words in ...

Director of History & Policy at the Institute of Historical Research and Professor of British and Commonwealth History, School of Advanced Study, University of London I sometimes think that my teenage ...

There are very few Beatles songs out there that would make anyone clutch their pearls today. However, the 1960s were a very different time. Quite a few of The Beatles’ songs were banned from radio ...

Ever since its release in the summer of 1967, the Beatles' "A Day In the LIfe," the last track on "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," has been mired in controversy. At the center of that ...