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When the Beatles became insanely wealthy, they wanted to buy an island in Greece, which had a small fishing village, 4 beaches, & a large olive grove. Four small neighbouring islands surrounded it, one for each Beatle. They changed their mind.
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In 1967, Paul McCartney forgot his passport when travelling to France to shoot a music video. He told the agents, ‘You know who I am so why do you need to see a photograph of me in a passport?’ And was let through.
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Background singers in the Beatles’ All You Need Is Love include Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Marianne Faithfull, Keith Moon, Graham Nash and Eric Clapton.
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Just about everyone loves LEGO…I mean, except for the parent who accidentally steps on one (or several) when they least expect it.
Many a child has spent their time happily building with the toy blocks, and the company knows it. Now, they’ve decided to release a brand new product that’s for adults LEGO Art.
The LEGO Art sets feature famous faces you probably already love, like Marilyn Monroe, The Beatles, Iron Man, and Star Wars characters.
LEGO explained more about the sets in their press release:
The LEGO Art sets offer adults a new creative experience to help them relax and recharge as they transform a blank canvas (or in this case, small interlinking base plates) using LEGO tiles.
The art kits are designed to be easy to rearrange so that it’s easy to display a brand-new version of your kit in your home. After all, you’re definitely going to want to show off your hard work!
LEGO also says that each kit is super easy to hang up:
All four new sets come with a signature tile unique to the set that is worthy of any true work of art, and a new hanging element to make them easy to hang up and switch around.
The art sets are also a great way to relax and unwind during this extended time of turbulence around the world.
Each set is priced at $119.00, and the art is truly stunning.
The customization options mean that you can decide how you want your LEGO art to look. For example, you have the option to recreate Andy Warhol’s famous painting of Marilyn Monroe exactly, or you can mix up the colors and put your own spin on it.
Beatles fans will love being able to recreate the Fab Four’s liner note portraits from the White Album — and you might even want to buy four separate kits so you can display all four Beatles on your wall when you’re finished!
Don’t forget to let us know which set you plan to buy in the comments!
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In 1966, the Beatles were making so much money that they had to pay a 95% “supertax” on their earnings in the UK. After finding out how much money they were losing, Beatles guitarist George Harrison wrote the song “Taxman” out of anger.
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Carl Sagan’s team wanted to include the Beatles song “Here Comes the Sun” on the Voyager Golden Records (discs containing greetings in 60 languages, music and sounds from Earth aboard both Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977), but the record company EMI, which held the copyrights, declined.
John Lennon’s comment ‘More popular than Jesus’ created a huge backlash in the US Bible belt, with one Texas radio station holding a large bonfire of Beatles albums only for a lightning bolt to strike its transmission tower the following day and sending the station temporarily off the air.
Ah, to be young and in love. Isn’t it great when you hear a love song and the lyrics just seem to describe your feelings perfectly? There’s nothing better!
Well… you may wanna change your mind about cranking the volume too hard on these 5 tunes, because even though most people think they’re romantic, the truth is that they’re just… not.
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Setting aside the fact that Denver, you know…died on a jet plane, the song was never meant to be a love song. Instead, Denver penned a heartfelt farewell from an unfaithful lover.
And who wants that person to come back, really?
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It starts out all mushy, talking about how the singer will “love you, always” but takes a quick turn into the tragic with lyrics about the bleeding, abandoned heart of a man left behind when his lover moved on with someone else.
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It sounds like a song about telling someone you love them, but singer-songwriter Nuno Bettencourt is quick to point out that it’s actually about how words can’t fix everything, and that “I love you” so often isn’t enough.
“People use it so easily and so lightly that they think you can say that and fix everything, or you can say that and everything’s OK.”
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This isn’t a cutesy romance song, like the twanging and purrs would suggest – it’s actually “about winos and hobos traveling on the trains, who die in the California Earthquake,” explained frontman Black Francis back in 1989.
Sexy.
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You might not believe it, coming from the wholesome Beatles, but Paul McCartney said that fooling “square” parents was the point.
Because the song? Sir Paul said “it’s actually an ode to pot.”
There are plenty of real love songs out there, so I’m sure it won’t take you long to find some great replacements!
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This poster is a must-have for Beatles fans, no question about it. The Fab Four were extremely prolific in their relatively brief career together as the most popular band in the world, and the poster breaks down every song they recorded by instrument.
Photo Credit: Pop Chart Lab
The poster comes to us from Pop Chart Lab and is called “Come Together” (after the song, duh). It contains every song the boys from Liverpool recorded from 1963-1970.
Photo Credit: Public Domain
Check out the full poster below and click HERE to purchase this nice piece of art.
Photo Credit: Pop Chart Lab
h/t: Mental Floss
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In 1969, The Beatles originally planned to have an album titled Everest. However, the band didn’t want to travel all the way to Mount Everest for the album cover photoshoot. This lead album title changing to Abbey Road, which was the street right outside their studio. 00
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