1. The poshest member is John Lennon.
He even had a pony when he was a child.
2. Paul McCartney is the only band member who was born in a private hospital.
Because his mother Mary was a nurse in Walton Hospital in Liverpool.
3. McCartney’s mother died in 1956 when Paul was 14 years old.
His first song I Lost My Little Girl was talking about his mother.
4. Ringo Starr had pleurisy when he was 13 years old.
He was hospitalized for two years.
5. Lennon and McCartney attempted to write a play called Pilchard that narrated the story of a man who thought himself to be the Messiah.
6. The band’s name changed multiple times: Beatals, The Silver Beats, The Silver Beetles, The Silver Beatles and finally The Beatles.
7. According to McCartney, if mandatory military in England did not change in 1960, The Beatles might not be formed.
8. In a concert in Hamburg, Lennon and bass player Stuart Sutcliffe shouted at the audience as “Nazis”.
9. The authorities of recording company Parlophone did not like “Love Me Do” song of Beatles which was their hit single of the album.
10. Even when their ‘Please Please Me’ song as a hit, the band members were forced to share hotel rooms.
11. A fortune teller that correctly predicted John F. Kennedy assassination said the August 1964 Denver plane of the Beatles will crash and they will all die.
12. The band said they will not play if the audience is separated as blacks and whites on 11 September 1964 in Jacksonville Florida concert.
13. In 1964, the Beatles is the only band allowed to shop in the famous Harrods store after closing hour.
14. Ringo Starr went to the bathroom during the studio recording of “Hey Jude”.
McCartney continued singing without noticing that.
15. “Hey, Jude” was not liked by everyone.
An orchestra member who was asked to be a back vocal said, “I am not going to clap my hands for this shitty McCartney piece” and left the studio.
16. An interview by Lennon to Disc magazine in January 1969 revealed the financial status of the Beatles as follows:
“I only have 50 thousand pounds in the bank.”
17. In 1969, John Lennon married Yoko Ono and changed his name as John Ono Lennon.
18. In 1969, Lennon purchased his car which was crashed and fagged out in Scotland.
19. The worst argument between Yoko Ono and George Harrison was after Ono ate Harrison’s biscuits without permission.
20. Ringo Starr went to convince McCartney to release a solo album on the same date as “Let It Be”.
McCartney shouted to Starr and kicked him out of his house.
21. The disband of the Beatles was announced by Paul McCartney on 10 April 1970.
Lennon made a separate announcement that “I found this band and I disbanded it.”
22. In 1972, Beatles Fan Club is closed.
The number of members decreased from 80 thousand to 11 thousand in 11 years.
23. Lennon and McCartney shared the same stage for the one last time on 28 March 1974 in a jam session in Los Angeles.
That night they had Stevie Wonder, Harry Nilsson and a lot of cocaine.
24. Dougal Butler, the driver of Keith Moon, is the last person to have a photograph side by side with McCartney and Lennon.
25. When the band was disbanded, McCartney and Lennon fought over two songs.
McCartney claimed to wrote “In My Life” and Lennon claimed to wrote “Eleanor Rigby”…
26. American organizer Sid Bernstein offered 50 million pounds in 1976 to bring back the band together.
McCartney said, “we might do it or we might not do it”. They did not.
27. On April 1976, Lennon and McCartney were watching Saturday Night Live show in Lennon’s New York apartment.
The producer of the program joked about “I would give 3 thousand dollars to the Beatles members if they are back together”. Lennon and McCartney thought about taking the cab to make a surprise but they didn’t.
28. The Beatles members had different reactions to the murder of Lennon. McCartney first said, “this is becoming boring”.
Then he changed his announcement and said, “I was in shock, I didn’t know what I said.” While Harrison announced that he was frozen, Ringo Starr took the first flight to New York to support Yoko Ono.
29. The Eleanor Rigby statues in Stanley Street, Liverpool was made in 1982 by singer Tommy Steele.
30. In 2008, Billboard magazine choose the Beatles as the most sold band of all times.
Madonna, Elton John and even Elvis Presley were behind them.
31. The Beatles Rock Band computer game was released on June 2009.
McCartney said the following about this: “Who would have guessed we would be an android one day?” (Compiled from Q Magazine.)
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