Off the Chain: Why the Beatles will always rock on

ONE of the most famous and well-known bands, The Beatles, made history with their seemingly good looks, unforgettable music and amazing talent.

The narrative that began where Paul met John and connected at a garden fête in Liverpool, and ended in high-end London, is so far fetched that it needs the power of a song punctuating every page to remind you that it was all true.

None of The Beatles could read music

The Beatles are talked about as one of the best bands of all time, but surprisingly none of The Beatles could even read music! Although they could play the guitar, and wrote their own lyrics, they never learned how to read music. Although they did know the chords and knew where middle C was on a piano.

The Beatles had to dodge Jelly Babies thrown at them on stage because fans heard George Harrison liked them

Justin Bieber isn’t the first to have snacks thrown at him on stage.

During a Beatles’ performance, it was George Harrison who was hit in the eye with a Jelly Baby.

It seems the Beatles didn’t like having sweets thrown at them on stage, mostly due to how fans would bombard them with Jelly Babies after George said in an interview how he liked them.

The Beatles are the only artists to hold all of the Top Five spots on the Billboard charts at once

During the week of 4 April, 1964, The Beatles held 12 positions on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, including the top five positions.

Neither feat has been been matched by any artist to date.

‘Yesterday’ by the Beatles has been covered more than 1 600 times

In 1986 it held the record for most recorded song.

It has been covered by Elvis Presley, Boyz II Men, Frank Sinatra, Gladys Knight, and James Brown.

The song reportedly came to Paul McCartney in a dream and when he first played it, he wasn’t sure if he had already heard it before.

So even the writer of the song almost thought he was doing a cover.

Two of the Beatles have children with the same birthday

Ringo’s son and Paul’s son have kids that were born on the same day, six years apart!

Zak Starkey was born on 13 September, 1965 and Stella McCartney came into the world the same day in 1971. Zak is an aspiring drummer just like his dad, while Stella has become a successful fashion designer.

The song ‘I Want You (She’s So Heavy)’ by the Beatles is almost eight minutes long but only 14 different words are sung

Six of those words are also in the title. In case you’re wondering, the other eight words are ‘It’s so bad driving me mad babe yeh. Lyrical genius unmatched.