Some listeners thought The Beatles‘ “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!” contained a line about heroin. John Lennon dismissed that idea. In addition, he revealed what inspired “Being for the Benefit ...

Sometimes songwriters must work tirelessly to wrangle a song into shape, changing words and melodies nonstop until everything fits just right. And other times, songs can just present themselves, ...

Time and time again through the years, the BBC has opted to ban The Beatles’ songs. For one reason or another, some of which were warranted, the BBC banned quite a few of The Fab Four’s biggest and ...

Lennon said that of all the songs he wrote with The Beatles, only one seemed to fall into his head from nowhere. Fittingly, the song is “Nowhere Man.” “I was just sitting, trying to think of a song, ...

I continue my look at the Beatles classic album, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Today I want to consider the song For the Benefit of Mr. Kite. Jordan Runtagh, writing in a Rolling Stone ...

Using old letterpress techniques, a Beatles fanatic remade the one-sheet that gave birth to one of John Lennon’s strangest tunes. As the story goes, when John Lennon was writing “I Am the Walrus,” he ...