John Lennon’s ex-wife noticed similarities between a Beatles hit and one Christmas card. Cynthia Lennon wrote about one “romantic” gift from her ex-husband in the 2005 memoir John. John Lennon is one ...

From 1963 to 1969, it was a holiday tradition of the Beatles to gift members of their official fan club Christmas records. The exclusive Flexi-disc records they sent out didn’t contain the poetics of ...

From 1963 to 1969, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr recorded a Christmas record for The Beatles’ fan club members. The records were often chaotic, featuring ad-libbed ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. We're celebrating Christmas Eve in our archive. Let's go back to 1992, when our rock historian, the late Ed Ward, did this great piece about the private Christmas ...

On September 26, 1969, Abbey Road arrived as the final album The Beatles recorded together. Though Let It Be would be released later, this was their true swan song—a project where innovation met ...

As a teenager in Dingle, Richard Starkey went from job to job. He had a brief spell on the railways, before working as a waiter on a boat between Liverpool and North Wales. Not wanting to give off the ...

Ward, who died May 3, 2021, spoke in 1992 about a series of Christmas singles the Beatles made in the '60s. If you were a member of their fan club, you got one each year. This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry ...

Celebrate the 56th anniversary of The Beatles’ 'Abbey Road' with a look at the album’s lasting cultural impact and the most valuable vintage Beatles trading cards coveted by collectors today. On ...