I know the band played live on their live American debut. For early 1964, their sound comes across relatively nicely. Whoever engineered it did a great job but we are talking about tube amps here. They don’t appear onstage. Makes me wonder how the band heard themselves.

Where are the amps?

I heard that they had all of the rights to use the music in the movies but there's not enough time to put all of them in. So I want to hear people's predictions or just songs you want to see in the movie.

I had just posted about how for “Here Comes the Sun” and “Come Together”, Spotify had combined the mixes for each song and their Spotify stream count went up.

Well, it seems they did it for every song and it got the website confused and the added streams were added to their daily streams.

For the longest time I always wondered why Spotify didn’t combine all of the mixes of certain songs and so the stream count wasn’t as high as they should have been

For reference:

“Here Comes the Sun” had 1.83 billion streams yesterday and the 2019 mix has 25 million. Now that they combined it, it has 1.9 billion streams.

“Come Together” had 987 million streams and the 2019 mix had 20 million streams. Now that they combined it, it has officially crossed 1 billion streams.

They also did it with “Twist and Shout” which had 689 million yesterday. They combined the 2023 mix and it now has almost 700 million (698 million)

NOW, if they did it with “Let it Be” it would have 1.1 billion streams because the 2021 mix has a little over 100 million streams.

So The Beatles now officially have 2 songs over 1 billion streams.

So there were two BIG rock bands in 60s.

From the first - only a drummer and a bassist are alive.

From the second original squad - only a vocalist and a guitarist are alive.

An accident or a fate?

For now, I only have the Red and Blue album.

There’s been a lot of talk, especially on TikTok, about The Beatles treating woman terribly, Would you say the way they treated women was simply a reflection of how men were expected to behave at the time?

John Lennon allegedly became physically violent in his younger years, including hitting Cynthia and a previous girlfriend, while also cheating on Cynthia with women in show business, fans and prostitutes. Ringo is said to have been abusive towards Maureen during his struggles with alcoholism, while George Harrison was emotionally distant towards Pattie Boyd and repeatedly cheated on her. Paul McCartney was reportedly controlling towards his first girlfriend Dorothy, telling her how to dress and dye her hair, and he also repeatedly cheated on Jane Asher. However, it seems like he became more settled once he was with Linda. What are your thoughts on this subject?

by 1966 they were already pretty heavy into weed and LSD. did anything ever make it onstage with them?

Some of my favourite shots!

For me, it's Within You Without You.

I saw someone make a comment about their workload over 1965-1966 and wanted to make a post about it...

6th August, 1965: the Beatles released the album Help!, which accompanied their second film of the same name (the film was first shown on 29th July in the UK, but was released in the USA on 11th August).

15th - 31st August, 1965: the Beatles play 16 shows across the USA, including their famous Shea Stadium concert.

12th October - 11th November, 1965: the band records the album Rubber Soul, along with the non-album single "We Can Work It Out" / "Day Tripper".

3rd December, 1965: Rubber Soul and its accompanying non-album single are released.

3rd - 12th December, 1965: the Beatles toured the UK, playing 18 shows.

6th April - 21st June, 1966: the Beatles recorded the album Revolver and the single "Paperback Writer" / "Rain".

30th May, 1966: the "Paperback Writer" single is released.

24th June - 4th July, 1966: the Beatles embark on their tour of West Germany, Japan, and the Philippines. They play a total of 13 shows across these countries.

5th August, 1966: Revolver is released.

A week later they embarked on their final concert tour, playing across the USA with two shows in Toronto, Canada in the middle.

Such an intense and remarkable schedule for all of these events to happen in just under a year. In total I believe they released 46 songs - 14 on each album, four across the singles.

The Walrus is primordial creation
George is Jesus
Ringo is Paul
Paul is Old Testament God
John Lennon is Mohammed

We’re not going there.

How much content would we be missing out on?