Paul McCartney felt The Beatles’ Magical Mystery Tour failed because it premiered the day after Christmas. Paul said fans wanted to watch television host Bruce Forsyth instead of The Beatles on that ...

Craig Jones is a freelance film features writer for Collider. He began his freelancing career writing on rock and alternative music for fanzines, before winning a job as a gig reviewer for a regional ...

The Beatles skated through much of their career, getting nothing but the most laudatory notices from the press. Their music was hailed and set apart as an ideal by music critics. But they eventually ...

Between the Beatles’ first UK single in 1962 and the band’s breakup in early 1970, the band had an unmatched run of success. Every new album was basically guaranteed to hit No. 1, and their singles ...

Adam Behr receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The 50th anniversary of Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was much celebrated in 2017. But this Christmas also marks ...

“Records can’t be seen so it’s good to have a film vehicle of some sort to go with the new music,” said John Lennon about the Beatle’s television film, Magical Mystery Tour. As it is, we’ll be seeing ...

The Beatles’ Magical Mystery Tour — the controversial surreal film made by The Beatles and broadcast by the BBC in 1967 and unavailable for decades – comes to THIRTEEN’s Great Performances, Friday, ...

It was written and produced in 1967, which was an incredibly fertile period for the Beatles. "Strawberry Fields Forever" came out that year, as well as "Penny Lane" and the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts ...