The Beatles’ movie Help! just isn’t funny. The film tries to be strange but it doesn’t reach the heights of Monty Python, Douglas Adams, or other great British surrealist humor. In addition, none of ...

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 Beatles assumed characters while making Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. The concept record saw them create under a new banner. In return, their music benefitted from the freedom of “not ...

Director of History & Policy at the Institute of Historical Research and Professor of British and Commonwealth History, School of Advanced Study, University of London I sometimes think that my teenage ...

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 ...