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 greatest challenge that any biographical film about the Beatles has faced is that the “Fab Four” rose to prominence during an unprecedented explosion of celebrity-focused media. Even if the ...

Rubber Soul is often marked as the turning point in the Beatles‘ career, the moment where they transcended the pop confines of Beatlemania and became serious artists. The first steps toward that ...

I sometimes think that my teenage fascination with the Beatles is what drew me to becoming a professional historian. Piecing together what I could find out about them in the years before the internet ...

It’s been 60 years since The Beatles released Help!, their fifth British LP. Perhaps because it was attached to a chaotic movie, or maybe because it was followed up by a series of masterpiece albums, ...