The Beatles
THE BEATLES Released Hit Single ‘NOWHERE MAN’ Today 60 Years Ago
Top singles from the past
21 February 2026
THE BEATLES (1960-1970) released NOWHERE MAN, one of the many highlights
of their game-changing LP Rubber Soul as a single in America and Canada, this
day 60 years ago, on 21 February 1966.
The song was written by John Lennon and credited to the Lennon–McCartney
partnership. Both in the US and Canada the song topped the charts.
Lennon reflected in a 1980 Playboy interview: “I’d spent five hours that morning
trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay
down. Then ‘Nowhere Man’ came, words and music, the whole damn thing as I lay
down.
The song is generally credited as being among the first
Beatles ones, not pertaining to themes of romance or love.
“He’s a real nowhere man
Sitting in his nowhere land
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody
Doesn’t have a point of view
Knows not where he’s going to
Isn’t he a bit like you and me?””
THE BEATLES – Their First Gig Under That Iconic Name Happened Today 65 Years Ago
9 February 2026
On 9 February 1961, today 65 years ago a band named The Silver Beatles (and before that The Quarrymen) dropped the ‘silver‘ part and played their first ever gig as THE BEATLES.
The historic show was at the legendary basement named
The Cavern Club in their hometown of Liverpool.
While George Harrison was nearly denied admission after arriving in blue jeans, the group performed a lunchtime set, for which they were paid £5. They would play the Liverpool club nearly 300 more times over the following years.
It all happened yesterday.
PAUL MCCARTNEY – New Docu ‘MAN ON THE RUN’ Coming Up
16 January 2026
MAN ON THE RUN is a new documentary featuring rare unreleased music and footage from PAUL MCCARTNEY. It premiered at the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado last August.
Now it’ll get its premiere on streaming TV, on Prime Video, on February 27th.
Man on the Run takes viewers on an intimate journey through Paul McCartney‘s extraordinary life following the break-up of The Beatles and the formation of
Wings with his wife, Linda.
Through unprecedented access to previously unseen footage and rare archival
materials, the documentary captures Paul’s transformative post-Beatles era
through a uniquely vulnerable lens.
TRAILER
THE BEATLES – Masterpiece ‘RUBBER SOUL’ Came Out 60 Years Ago Today
Significant longplayers from yesteryear
3 December 2025
THE BEATLES released one of their masterpiece LPs,
with their 6th one RUBBER SOUL, on 3 December 1965,
today 60 years ago.
Pitchfork said: “It’s arguably the most important artistic leap in the Beatles’ career,
the signpost that signalled a shift away from Beatlemania and the heavy demands
of teen pop, toward more introspective, adult subject matter.
It’s also the record that started them on their path toward the valuation of creating
studio records over live performance. If nothing else, it’s the record on which their
desire for artistic rather than commercial ambition took center stage.
A radical idea at a time when the success of popular music
was measured in sales and quantity rather than quality.”
John Lennon: “Rubber Soul was the pot album, and Revolver was acid. I mean, we
weren’t all stoned making Rubber Soul, because in those days we couldn’t work on pot.”
George Harrison: “We all think it’s just about our best LP. I can’t wait for it to
come out. The sleeve’s finished too, and the picture on the front is pretty good!”
Paul McCartney: “The effect was to stretch the perspective and elongate the faces.
We excitedly asked photographer Robert Freeman if it was possible to print the photo
this way. Being Bob, he said, ‘Yes,’ and the cover to our album Rubber Soul was decided.”
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QUEEN ELIZABETH Honored THE BEATLES With ‘MBE’ Medal Today 60 Years Ago
26 October 2025
Queen Elizabeth II honored The Beatles with their MBE‘s medals
(Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) – at Buckingham Palace.
According to an account by John Lennon the group smoked marijuana in one of the palace bathrooms to calm their nerves. Many former recipients gave their MBE’s back in protest, to which John Lennon responded: “Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war, for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I’d say we deserve ours more.”
SIMON AND GARFUNKEL And THE BEATLES 60 Years Ago
13 September 2025
THE BEATLES released the Paul McCartney
written ballad YESTERDAY on 13 September 1965,
today 60 years ago.
Story goes the entire melody came to McCartney in a dream one night in his room at the home of his then-girlfriend Jane Asher and her family. Upon waking, he hurried to a piano and played the tune to avoid forgetting it.
It went to #1 of the Singles Chart in the UK,
the US and several European countries.
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Golden duo SIMON and GARFUNKEL scored one of their biggest
hits with THE SOUND OF SILENCE, released 60 years ago, on
12 September 1965.
The original acoustic version was recorded in March 1964 for their debut album, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M., released that year in October to disappointing sales.
The overdubbed electric remix, as the whole world knows
it, took them, a year later to #1 seat on the US Charts.
The Late Great CHRIS CORNELL’s Favorite Band As A Child
25 August 2025
Yesterday.
(Image: cover of his solo album ‘Carry On’)
THE BEATLES Released ‘HELP!’ This Day 60 Years Ago Today
Top singles from the past
19 July 2025
The Fab Four had one of their multiple hit singles
with Help! The title track from their 5th longplayer.
It was written by John Lennon (with a little help from
his friend Macca), who said afterwards: “The whole Beatles
thing was just beyond comprehension. I was subconsciously
crying out for help”.
The single was released 60 years ago today in the US and
4 days later in the UK. It topped the charts around the globe.
12 July 2000 – Remarkable Statue In Memory Of JOHN LENNON Was Unveiled In London 25 Years Ago Today
12 July 2025
A statue in the memory of JOHN LENNON was unveiled in London’s Trafalgar Square.
The sculpture featured a revolver with a knotted barrel created by Swedish artist Carl Fredrik Reutersward.
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