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A Good Source For The Beatles Universe And Anything Else Related Welcome To The Beatles Wiki! A wiki founded in 2006 by Vidur about the world's greatest musical act, adopted by Nobody Cares and ListentoMusic in 2010, by Glamra in 2013, KirbyTheBulborb in 2021, and again by BootlegsATrolley in 2024. Ever since 2006, this wiki has given the finest wiki information about The Beatles. And you can help! (Not sure how you can help? Check out this wiki's to-do list.) VERY IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMNET: The Rutles Wiki is moving from the old wiki to a new one due to inactive administration, in other words we are hosting coup against them, so if you are interested please help out by copy and pasting the pages over and reuploaded images. IMPORTANT: By editing or uploading on this wiki, you indicate that you have read all the policy pages and that you agree to abide by them. About • Policy • All policy pages Beatles News The Dark Side of Paul McCartney - Lindsay Zoladz - 2026/06/02 19:58 Listen to “Eleanor Rigby,” “Daytime Nightime Suffering” and more tracks that hint at his gloomier instincts.... Paul McCartney on His New Album and the Beatles’ Earliest Days - Jon Pareles - 2026/06/02 15:39 On his new album, the ex-Beatle revisits his past and revels in simply continuing to create.... Stephen Colbert Closes Out “Late Show” - Julie Yoon - 2026/05/22 10:05 Stephen Colbert signed off for the last time from “The Late Show” on Thursday. His final guest was Paul McCartney and together they performed the Beatles’ “Hello, Goodbye.”... London Rooftop Where Beatles Played Last Gig to Become Museum - Alex Marshall - 2026/05/11 09:00 The townhouse at 3 Savile Row, where the band also recorded “Let It Be,” will open to the public next year, the group’s record label said.... Book Review: ‘Where the Music Had to Go,’ by Jim Windolf - Francine Prose - 2026/04/15 15:59 Jim Windolf’s new book, “Where the Music Had to Go,” traces the influence of Dylan on the Beatles and the Beatles on Dylan.... Featured Song The cover from the I'll Cry Instead/I'm Happy Just to Dance With You single. 'I'm Happy Just to Dance with You' is mainly a John Lennon composition (credited to Lennon/McCartney) recorded by The Beatles for the film soundtrack to A Hard Day's Night, and first released on 1 March 1964. Read More & Listen... Featured Album Anthology 1 is a compilation album by The Beatles, released on Apple Records in November 1995. It is the 'Anthology 1', released in 1995 first of a three-volume collection, all of which tie-in with the televised special The Beatles Anthology, and contains 'Free as a Bird,' billed as the first new Beatles song in 25 years. It topped the Billboard 200 album chart, and was certified 4x Platinum by the RIAA. Read More... Featured Article Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth album by The Beatles. It was released on June 1, 1967 in the United Kingdom and on June 2, 1967 in the United States. Sgt. Pepper is often said to be The Beatles' best work, and one of the most influential albums of all time. In 2003, the album was ranked number 1 on the Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time List. In 2006, the album was chosen by Time Magazine as one of the 100 best albums of all time. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was recorded after the band stopped touring. The album's songs were each designed so that they could not be played live. All of The Beatles experimented with new sounds while recording the album, so each song is very different. It is rumoured that drugs took a big part while the band was making the album. The song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" was said to be about LSD, but the band denied it. Read More Did You Know... ...that Say Say Say, the duet by Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson, is credited for the introduction of dialogue and storyline into music videos? ...that the first song the Beatles recorded was In Spite of All the Danger? ...that John Lennon started and ended The Beatles? ...that Brian Epstein was gay? ...that Paul McCartney and George Harrison were best friends since they met on the school bus in 1954? ...that the full interviews of John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and George Harrison are viewable on the Dick Cavett Show page? ...that with the addition of the Hey Jude Disambiguation page, the Beatles Wiki became officially 'evil' (666 pages)? ...that both Cynthia Lennon and Yoko Ono were older than John? ...that John Lennon and Cynthia Lennon had birthdays on consecutive days of the month? (9 October and 10 September, respectively.) ...that the above means that their birthdays are 9/10 and 10/9, although which is which depends on which date format you use?

The Beatles No band has influenced pop culture the way The Beatles have. They were one of the best things to happen in the twentieth century, let alone the Sixties. They were youth personified. They were unmatched innovators who were bigger than both Jesus and rock & roll itself: During the week of 4 April 1964, the Beatles held the first five slots on the Billboard Singles chart; they went on to sell more than a billion records; and 2000's 1 , a compilation of the Beatles Number One hits, hit Number One in 35 countries and went on to become the best-selling album of the 2000s. Every record was a shock when it came out. Compared to rabid R&B evangelists like the Rolling Stones, the Beatles arrived sounding like nothing else. They had already absorbed Buddy Holly, the Everly Brothers and Chuck Berry, but they were also writing their own songs. They made writing your own material expected, rather than exceptional. As musicians, the Beatles proved that rock & roll could embrace a limitless variety of harmonies, structures, and sounds; virtually every rock experiment has some precedent on Beatles records. As a unit the Beatles were a synergistic combination: Paul McCartney's melodic bass lines, Ringo Starr's slaphappy no-rolls drumming, George Harrison's rockabilly-style guitar leads, John Lennon's assertive rhythm guitar — and their four fervent voices. As personalities, they defined and incarnated Sixties style: smart, idealistic, playful, irreverent, eclectic. Their music, from the not-so-simple love songs they started with to their later perfectionistic studio extravaganzas, set new standards for both commercial and artistic success in pop. Read More of Rolling Stone's Beatles Biography...

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