The Beatles as we know them materialized when Ringo Starr replaced Pete Best on drums. John Lennon once said the band could have continued with just him and Paul McCartney, but it’s hard to imagine ...

Craig Jones is a freelance film features writer for Collider. He began his freelancing career writing on rock and alternative music for fanzines, before winning a job as a gig reviewer for a regional ...

In 1967, the Beatles were experiencing staggering highs and lows. They were riding a wave of commercial and critical acclaim following the release of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, and their ...

The Beatles were on a roll in 1967. They not only had released what many fans consider their best-ever album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, they also were writing and recording new songs at ...

New footage of The Beatles shooting their 1967 cult classic “Magical Mystery Tour” movie has been unearthed. The clips show the Fab Four and their wives on-set in between takes, children hanging ...

Both 1964's A Hard Day's Night and 1965's Help! had been well received by fans and critics, but the same could not be said for the band's third foray into the world of filmmaking, 1967's Magical ...

The Beatles skated through much of their career, getting nothing but the most laudatory notices from the press. Their music was hailed and set apart as an ideal by music critics. But they eventually ...

In the 1997 book Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now, Paul discussed the origin of the song “Magical Mystery Tour.” “John and I remembered mystery tours, and we always thought this was a fascinating ...

In the realm of rock and roll debates, the argument over which Beatles album is the best is one of the mostly hotly-contested. Perhaps because the records that are most mentioned (Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely ...

The 50th anniversary of Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was much celebrated in 2017. But this Christmas also marks 50 years since the release of another Beatles production that received much ...

On Friday night on PBS, Great Performances presents a documentary about the making of a Beatles TV special from 1967 — Magical Mystery Tour — then shows a restored version of that special. Magical ...

“Records can’t be seen so it’s good to have a film vehicle of some sort to go with the new music,” said John Lennon about the Beatle’s television film, Magical Mystery Tour. As it is, we’ll be seeing ...