In Hamburg they were given slimming pills ... I think rightly now – that this doesn’t work.” Did the Beatles increase drug use in the 60s? Of course they did – you couldn’t get a better ...

The Fab Four's manager Brian Epstein was instrumental to their success and is now the subject of a new biopic Midas Man.

Close to the Beatles, subject of our latest 172 ... a succinct take on the band’s formative two years in Hamburg. “It wasn’t sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll,” he told me some years ...

While the Beatles often collaborated with one another, there are several songs that didn’t require that all four members get into the studio. Find four such songs, below. As fans of the Beatles ...

Perhaps the best of the bunch is 1994's Backbeat - an independent film, directed by Iain Softley, that told the story of The Beatles' pre-fame days in Hamburg ... and drug use - are unlikely ...

Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. BEATLES 1966 Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon and George Harrison at Top Of The Pops. Last ... [+] week, The Beatles appeared ...

Everyone who was there at the time can remember exactly where they were when they first heard The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. For Rick Wakeman, the epiphany came in the ...

'Beatles '64,' directed by David Tedeschi and arriving on Nov. 29, will capture the band's first visit to America Courtesy of Apple Beatlemania is touching down in the U.S. yet again — this time ...

From there the Beatles also traveled to Washington, D.C. and Miami, Florida, stirring up the phenomenon that would come to be known as Beatlemania in America. "Anyone who rediscovers a personal ...

The Beatles‘ 1964 trip to America will be chronicled in a new documentary from producer Martin Scorsese and director David Tedeschi. Titled “Beatles ’64,” the film will be released on ...

Given the sheer wealth of movies and documentaries that have been made about The Beatles over the past 60-plus years, it seems crazy that we’ve had to wait this long for a dedicated biopic of ...