Paul’s first guitar was a Zenith, which he still has.

John has admitted that he would probably have been in jail if not for his musical success.

George Martin, producer for The Beatles, served in the British Fleet Air Arm as an observer.

Paul recorded "Yesterday", the world’s most covered song, on the same day as "I've just seen a Face" and "I'm Down."

The four Beatles got togther for the last photo shoot at John’s estate, Tittenhurst.

John and Paul’s partnership was cemented by the kinship feeling of loss they had after their mothers died.

George's son, Dhani, is named after a Ravi Shankar song. Dhani means "rich man". Dha and Ni are also musical notes in Sanskrit.

  Dhani Harrison is currently a student at Brown University.

The McCartney children are Heather (12/31/63), Mary (8/28/69), Stella (9/13/71), and James (9/12/77).

At the exact moment Paul was in the studio recording "Yesterday," America’s first ground troops went to fight Vietcong bases.

The last words spoken to John Lennon as he lay dying in the back on a Manhattan police car were "Do you know where you are?"

Prince Charles wore his hair like the Beatles at age 16, and when questioned by the press about it, he said he always wore it that way.

During the production of the Liverpool Oratorio, Paul worked with the choir that denied him membership as a youth.

Pattie Harrison (George’s wife) and Yoko Ono sang backup on the record "Birthday."

Paul has been very open about expressing his feelings. "…I’m very proud of being able to cry. I say that if God had not meant us to cry, he wouldn’t have given us tears. I think it’s a most important part of nature but most people cover it up."

The Beatles were infuriated with liberties Capitol Records took with their albums, rearranging songs, taking titles off, and putting together extra albums. They were powerless to stop it, however, because the contract they had gave Capitol complete freedom.

Mick Jagger went with The Beatles and their wives to Maharishi’s ashram to learn trancendental meditation.

At the end of 1969, a disc jockey at a radio station in Detroit, Michigan, spread the rumor that Paul McCartney had been killed in a car accident three years earlier and replaced by an impostor. In seclusion on his Scottish farm, Paul was, in fact, temporarily out of sight. As proof, the DJ pointed to details on the cover of the just released Abbey Road album.

The single, "Hey Jude",released on August 26, 1968, was both the Beatles' longest and their most popular record. It featured an orchestra of 40 musicians.

On Paul's wedding day, over 400 people, most of them weeping girls crashed his "quiet" ceremony.  So many girls stayed in front of his house on Cavendish Ave. that he went out to the black wrought iron gates to plead with them.  "Please girls, you knew I had to get married one day!"

It was primarily Paul's idea to do the collage of famous figures for the cover of Sgt. Pepper and everyone involved with the project gave their opinions of who should be included.  They attempted to contact everyone they wanted to depict on the cover but with time running short, at least half of the images on the cover were published without permission, but no one sued.  Mae West had to be written by all 4 Beatles before she would give permission.  Leo Gorcey was left off the cover because he insisted upon being paid.

The Beatles' best selling 45 rpm record, "I Want To Hold Your Hand" lasted 7 weeks at the top of the American charts, selling over 5 million copies.

The Beatles began recording songs written by George Harrison in 1965. "Something" released in 1969 was the only song by Harrison ever released on the A-side of a 45 rpm single.

Released in England by Parlophone on Oct. 5, 1962, "Love Me Do" never went higher than number 17 on the New Musical Express hit list. When it came out in the US on Apr. 27, 1964, it made it to number one for a week on the American pop charts.

John sang about the circus show which was held at Bishopsgate Hall in 1843 in the song, For The Benefit of Mr. Kite.  Paul held his Town Hall Meeting at Bishopsgate in 1997 complete with an internet chat.  The author was there and spoke with Paul as well as John Fugelsang (of VH1) who was the moderator of the show, and Paul's publicist, Geoff Baker.

George was the first solo Beatle to experience success. In 1970, he wrote and performed the hit single "My Sweet Lord".  He was later sued by another group who had written and sung "He's So Fine" for copyright infringement.  He ended up having to pay a substantial sum of money for his unintentional borrowing of the tune.  Personally, I don't see the infringement.

During the last press conference before their last concert (Aug. 29, 1966; San Francisco's Candlestick Park) on their last official tour, Dave from the group The Byrds made a brief appearance with them. Paul and John were obviously annoyed at questions about the origins of their songs. Ringo denied ever carrying family pictures in his wallet. George had a tart reply to a question about his earlier statement that they would be "beaten up by the Americans" on their tour.
 

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