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All You Need is Love is a strange title for a book about the petty resentments and soul-sapping feuds behind the collapse of what Ringo Starr describes here as “the best band that ever was”. But it isn’t solely about The Beatles’ end.
In the 1970s, the ex-Fab Four and their circle sank into mutual recriminations, if you trust this intriguing – albeit wayward – oral history
"The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill" tells such a bizarre tale that it seems like it only could have emanated from the boundless imagination of its writer, John Lennon. Well, would you believe that Lennon based it on a strange-but-true story that he happened to encounter? What is the meaning of the song? What inspired it? And how did it break Beatle barriers when it came to one specific line of the vocals? To find all the answers, we need to go back to the '60s and travel to Rishikesh, India.
Pattie Boyd's love letters from her love triangle with Beatle George Harrison and Eric Clapton are going to be auctioned. The former model was once married to both musicians.
Let's take a look at some of the tunes that have been written for wives, husbands, significant others... or just celebrity crushes.