Beatles Music Blog

Is has been thirty years since the untimely demise of the beloved John Lennon. A dramatic and sudden ending point to his legendary rock band, The Beatles, that paved the roads of Rock'n'Roll glory in the 60's and the 70's by breaking through the top Pop Charts with hit after hit and even clogging up the Top Ten Billboards at one point with five hits on the same Top Ten... Read More

Despite coming from the city of Liverpool, on a recent TV appearance in the U.K., ex-Beatle Ringo Starr had nothing good to say about his old stomping grounds and it apparently really ticked off the locals. According to Gordon Smart's "Bizarre" column in the British Sun newspaper, "As Ringo helped launch Liverpool’s Capital Of Culture year, you would have thought the drummer... Read More with Video

Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey) born on July 7,1940, whose parents divorced when he was three, was raised by his mother, Elsie, who married 8 years later to his stepfather Harry Graves, a Liverpool house painter, whom Starr liked and who encouraged his interest in music. Ringo's childhood was filled with stays in the hospital for an appendicitis-caused coma at the age of... Read More with Video

It can reasonably be argued that Sir Paul McCartney has had the best career of any of the Beatles. Since the group's fabled breakup w-a-a-y back in 1970, he has been the most prolific of all the ex-Beatles and has had the most success as a touring artist, first as the front man for Wings, then, later, as a solo artist. Although John Lennon got the most respect as a writer... Read More with Video