The Beatles – The White Album

After the success of Sergeant Pepper, the Beatles traveled to Rishikesh, India to stay with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The trip was meant to provide an escape from their daily lives in the form of meditation. There they began to write The Beatles or – as its popularly known because of its pure white cover – The […]

The Beatles – Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

After recording Revolver, each of the Beatles headed off on their own for a few months. A break from their lives as working musicians was necessary: the Beatles’ infamous ‘more popular than Jesus comment’ had caused a major public backlash in the states. This – along with the pressures of their personal lives […]

The Beatles – Revolver

With their previous album, 1965’s Rubber Soul, the Beatles had made a huge stride forward artistically. This creative maturation continued on their following LP, Revolver. Released in August 1966 (less than six months after Rubber Soul) Revolver saw the Beatles expand upon their use of the studio to produce new sounds. New music technology made […]

The Beatles – ‘Rubber Soul’

It’s October 1965. The Beatles have just released Help!, their sixth album to peak at number one on the Billboard charts. They’ve just finished a successful – and grueling – North American tour. But this success had not been without its tolls. Of those early months of 1965, Lennon would later say, “I was depressed and crying out […]