What does John Lennon say at the end of The Beatles song ‘Free as a Bird’?
In 1995, The Beatles stunned the world with a new single release, 25 years after the band had broken up and 15 years after the death of John Lennon. ‘Free…
The Beatles song that invented Jimi Hendrix, according to George Harrison
Every artist is going to want to try something that no one has ever done before. While it’s easy to just come up with a handful of chords and get…
Who played the organ on The Beatles song ‘Let It Be’?
The title track of the final Beatles album, Let It Be, is perhaps the closest the Fab Four ever came to religious music. John Lennon might have been famously anti-religious,…
‘Here Comes the Sun’: The song George Harrison was frightened to write
As a member of the band that changed the world of music indefinitely, you would assume that George Harrison had carte blanche to do whatever he wanted after leaving the…
Who was the original bass guitarist of The Beatles?
It’s hard to imagine a Beatles line-up without picturing Paul McCartney’s violin-shaped Hofner bass guitar upfront, but the truth is things weren’t always that way. In the band’s early days,…
Why is the sixth Beatles album titled ‘Rubber Soul’?
Rubber Soul was the first real statement The Beatles made in the form of a cohesive album. In fact, you could say it was the first deliberate rock album because,…
The moment George Harrison knew The Beatles were over: “It got a bit boring being Fab”
It’s almost impossible to quantify the sheer cultural impact of The Beatles. A group born out of four friends, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, converging over…
“Just a noise”: The Beatles song that John Lennon never listened to properly
Spawning out of the suburbs of Liverpool in the early 1960s, The Beatles unknowingly began forging their legacy as the biggest band of all time. They pushed recording techniques forward,…
Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr reunite The Beatles back in 1994
We’re dipping int the Far Out Magazine vault to look back at a cherishable moment. A moment which saw three figures of the past reunite to acclaim and lament the…
What instrument plays at the start of The Beatles song ‘She’s Leaving ‘Home’?
‘She’s Leaving Home’ is one of the most distinctive songs on The Beatles’ legendary 1967 album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. It marks perhaps the furthest the band went…