Critics At Large

From left: Scot Williams as Pete Best, Gary Bakewell as Paul McCartney, Ian Hart as John Lennon, and Chris O'Neill as George Harrison. (...

The Beatles with Little Richard, 1962 (Photo: Horst Fascher/Redferns) “Now I'm stepping out of this old brown shoe Baby, I'm in lo...

The Beatles in Abbey Road Studios during filming of the "Paperback Writer" and "Rain" promo films. (Photo: Apple Corps) ...

(W.W. Norton Press) “The Beatles, like Duke Ellington, are virtually unclassifiable musicians.” – Lillian Ross, writing in The New Yorker i...

Yoko Ono; Paul McCartney.              Yoko One, "Death of Samantha,"  Approximately Infinite Universe , 1973. The Firemen,  Stra...

The lads, from The Beatles’ last photo session, in August 1969. (Photo: Ethan Russell) “And in the end, the love you take is equal to...

Jessie Buckley in Wild Rose . The review of Yesterday contains spoilers.   As Rose-Lynn, the young Glaswegian woman determine...

The Beatles' "Mad Day Out" (July 28, 1968). (Photo credit: Apple Corps Ltd.) Devin: I'd love to follow up on that W...

Leslie Cavendish cutting George Harrison’s hair. Leslie Cavendish has never forgotten the day, just over 50 years ago, when as an ...

Mark Morris Dance Group in Pepperland . (Photo: Gareth Jones) Pepperland , American choreographer Mark Morris ’s latest work, is a ne...

Happy Christmas Beatle People! The Christmas Records , a vinyl collection, was released on December 15. The interwebs – lately anxious...

Beatles's manager Allen Klein, John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1969 The title is long but The Zapple Diaries: The Rise and Fall of the...

When John Lennon released his solo album Plastic Ono Band in 1970, he concluded the record with a tune called “God.”  The song lame...

Be prepared to be shocked. Paul McCartney considered as an avant-garde musician? As usual, truth is stranger than fiction, and certainl...

Dreaming Pepper : The Beatles in costume.                                                                           I. Sgt. Pepper...

A few months ago, director Ron Howard described his documentary, The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years , as an adventure s...

Back in January 2010, when David Churchill, Shlomo Schwartzberg and I came up with the idea of Critics At Large , we envisioned a dail...

A Beatles' press conference at Maple Leaf Gardens before they took the stage on Aug. 17, 1965. (Photo: John Rowlands) Canadian Bea...

A scene from The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years . Ron Howard’s  The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years is...

 The Beatles filming “Hello, Goodbye” in 1967. (Apple Corps Ltd.) Under the collective title of 1+ , the promotional music videos mad...