Today I’m picking up from yesterday’s entry on Disc 1 of The White Album in my continuing series on “The Beatles in their Own Words.”
“Birthday”
McCartney: We thought, ‘Why not make something up?’ So we got a riff going and arranged it around this riff. We said, ‘We’ll go to there for a few bars, then […]

I was reminded by a commenter that I needed to get back to work on this series. The next album in line is The White Album, which also happens to be my favorite Beatles album.
I’ve decided to split this double album in half to make it a bit more manageable. Disc 2 comes tomorrow.
“Back […]

Picking up where I left off in this series (I’ve already done Let It Be & Abbey Road) I’m at 1969’s Yellow Submarine which I really don’t consider a true Beatles album, but here it is anyway.
Yellow Submarine only included four new Beatles songs. “Yellow Submarine” had already been included on 1966’s Revolver, and […]

The next in my “The Beatles In Their Own Words” series which I started yesterday with 1970’s Let It Be. I’m working my way backwards based on the release date of their albums so this post is on 1969’s Abbey Road.
I’m going album by album and song by song (skipping songs that I can’t […]

A new Beatles feature series begins today. I know we’ve been doing a lot of Beatles related posts lately, what can I say? With 9/9/9 coming up, I have a bit of what they call Beatlemania.
This series is focused on what The Beatles (along with producer George Martin & engineer Geoff Emerick) had to […]