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Welcome To The Beatles Wiki! A wiki founded in 2006 by Vidur about the world's greatest musical act, adopted by Nobody Cares and ListentoMusic in 2010, by Glamra in 2013, KirbyTheBulborb in 2021, and again by BootlegsATrolley in 2024. Ever since 2006, this wiki has given the finest wiki information about The Beatles. And you can help! (Not sure how you can help? Check out this wiki's to-do list.)

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Beatles News

Springsteen, Dylan and the Art of the Biopic - Gilbert Cruz, Lindsay Zoladz, Joe Coscarelli, Tina Antolini, Kate LoPresti, Alex Barron, Luke Vander Ploeg, Wendy Dorr, Sophia Lanman, Dan Powell, Marion Lozano, Elisheba Ittoop and Diane Wong - 2025/10/19 10:00

Why Hollywood loves to make movies about musicians....

Unreleased Beatles Demos and Footage to Be Shared This Fall - Michaela Towfighi - 2025/08/21 18:58

This episode goes behind the scenes of the 1995 documentary; new mixes of “Free as a Bird” and “Real Love” are coming out; and an updated book is due....

He’s Ringo. And Nobody Else Is. - Lindsay Zoladz and Thea Traff - 2025/07/08 18:37

As he turns 85, one of the last surviving Beatles is still musically curious, dispensing his signature wisdom, and preaching the gospel of peace and love....

Las ventajas de ser Ringo Starr - Lindsay Zoladz and Thea Traff - 2025/07/06 07:00

Al cumplir 85 años, uno de los últimos Beatles supervivientes sigue mostrando curiosidad musical, impartiendo su sabiduría característica y predicando el evangelio de la paz y el amor....

Book Review: ‘John & Paul,’ by Ian Leslie - T Bone Burnett - 2025/05/12 17:51

T Bone Burnett reviews Ian Leslie’s “John & Paul,” which explores the partnership of “two extraordinarily gifted young men.”...

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I'll Cry Instead/I'm Happy Just To Dance With You single cover

The cover from the I'll Cry Instead/I'm Happy Just to Dance With You single.

'I'm Happy Just to Dance with You' is mainly a John Lennon composition (credited to Lennon/McCartney) recorded by The Beatles for the film soundtrack to A Hard Day's Night, and first released on 1 March 1964.

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Anthology 1 is a compilation album by The Beatles, released on Apple Records in November 1995. It is the
Anthology 1

'Anthology 1', released in 1995

first of a three-volume collection, all of which tie-in with the televised special The Beatles Anthology, and contains 'Free as a Bird,' billed as the first new Beatles song in 25 years. It topped the Billboard 200 album chart, and was certified 4x Platinum by the RIAA.
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"Let It Be" is a song by The Beatles, released in March 6th 1970 as a single, and as the title track of their album Let It Be. Although credited to Lennon/McCartney it is generally accepted to be a Paul McCartney composition. The single reached #1 in the U.S., Australia, Italy, Norway and Switzerland and #2 in the UK. It was the final single released by the Beatles while the band was still active.

Jim and Mary McCartney McCartney said he had the idea of "Let It Be", after a dream he had about his mother during the tense period surrounding the Get Back/Let It Be sessions. McCartney explained that his mother—who died of cancer when McCartney was fourteen—was the inspiration for the "Mother Mary" lyric. McCartney later said, "It was great to visit with her again. I felt very blessed to have that dream. So that got me writing 'Let It Be'." He also said—in a later interview about the dream—that his mother had told him, "It will be alright, just let it be."


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The Beatles

No band has influenced pop culture the way The Beatles have. They were one of the best things to happen in the twentieth century, let alone the Sixties. They were youth personified. They were unmatched innovators who were bigger than both Jesus and rock & roll itself: During the week of 4 April 1964, the Beatles held the first five slots on the Billboard Singles chart; they went on to sell more than a billion records; and 2000's 1 , a compilation of the Beatles Number One hits, hit Number One in 35 countries and went on to become the best-selling album of the 2000s.

Every record was a shock when it came out. Compared to rabid R&B evangelists like the Rolling Stones, the Beatles arrived sounding like nothing else. They had already absorbed Buddy Holly, the Everly Brothers and Chuck Berry, but they were also writing their own songs. They made writing your own material expected, rather than exceptional. As musicians, the Beatles proved that rock & roll could embrace a limitless variety of harmonies, structures, and sounds; virtually every rock experiment has some precedent on Beatles records. As a unit the Beatles were a synergistic combination: Paul McCartney's melodic bass lines, Ringo Starr's slaphappy no-rolls drumming, George Harrison's rockabilly-style guitar leads, John Lennon's assertive rhythm guitar — and their four fervent voices. As personalities, they defined and incarnated Sixties style: smart, idealistic, playful, irreverent, eclectic. Their music, from the not-so-simple love songs they started with to their later perfectionistic studio extravaganzas, set new standards for both commercial and artistic success in pop.

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