Colin Fleming, Author at Best Classic Bands

When you listen to the LP as a cohesive experience, it feels like a genuine concept album—these guys being what they were.

Try to please everyone, and you please no one, including yourself. For the Beatles, January 1, 1962, was the day that the lesson was learned.

There is perhaps no Christmas special more beloved than this one from 1964.

The 1967 album emphasizes the collective and its vision, rather than that of an auteur with attendants helping to carry out his grand design.

This was like having friends over for a boozy party, minus the booze, and in a theater instead of a parlor.

He left behind three albums, a talent he believed he had lost, and the pain he could neither escape nor overcome.

‘When they hit the stage, the Beatles could make it appear that they were part of your group, but also apart in their own world.’

McCartney loved Little Richard’s singing, and used to cover his songs with the band. Then he decided to write his own tune in Richard’s style…

At age 14, writer Colin Fleming saw the film and it made him into a Beatles fanatic… many years after Beatlemania. He recalls that day

Here is a look at some of the finest that went down over those 3 days, and which still loom so largely as we bring contemporary ears to bear on them

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