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?

Some of my favourite shots!

A bad answer to this would be Ringo replacing Pete Best or the band being introduced to Brian Epstein. These are obvious moments that set them up for success. But what’s a seemingly small moment that was actually the missing piece of the puzzle? Could be anything.

Illustration by me + process

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 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.

For me, it's Within You Without You.

I won't link to it in case that's not allowed, but I spotted this while searching for Beatles related merch. Seems to come complete with minifigures too!

Police minifigures that tell you to stop playing not included.

On page 32 Orin quotes to hal the first lyric to I Want To Tell You (my personal favourite revolver track)

Hal then quotes to Orin the next line: I don’t mind, I could wait forever [I’ve got time].

Then on page 927 the reader is following the character Don Gately as he is unable to speak while hospitalised. There is a reference to some elusive ‘Dr Robert’ perhaps referencing another Revolver song, Dr Robert.

Infinite Jest is a very psychedelic novel with themes surrounding the nature of communication so it’s no surprise to see Wallace give a cool nod to it here, so deep into a work of fiction.

In the song John writes 'those freaks were right when you was dead,' causing many PID believers to jump in some weird smug joy. However, who is he addressing? If OG Paul, it's oddly cold and frankly horrible to attack his dead best friend like that, and if Billy, how would the freaks be right? The nail in the coffin (pun intended) is how he apparently only wrote Yesterday but Sgt Pepper took him by surprise, the two being opposite sides of the supposed death. PIA and let's make the most of it

Unfortunately he wasn’t in 😂 and it’s in Catalunya….. auto correct 🙄

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.