Daily Mail – 2.2.19
When Paul McCartney announced in April 1970 that he had no plans for working with the Beatles the world fell in on him. ‘PAUL QUITS BEATLES,’ ran newspaper headlines around the world.
And, overnight, the most … read more
John Lennon, Yoko and Me
Sunday Times Magazine, December 9, 2018
One afternoon I was sitting with John Lennon in the kitchen at his Tittenhurst Park home in Berkshire when he asked me if I’d written his obituary yet. It was 1970, and amused, at … read more
When the Lunatic Beatles Took Over The Asylum
November 9, 2018
When it comes to rock music, events of half a century ago are almost ancient history. So, we can imagine the thrill that Giles Martin, the son of record producer George Martin, must have got, when he … read more
Macca at the Cavern
Daily Mail, July 2018
The place won’t have looked the same, that’s for sure. Not the way it did when Paul made his debut at the Cavern with the Beatles at lunchtime on February 21, 1961. It can’t, because it … read more
Paul McCartney Gets Back to Liverpool
Daily Mail 23.6.18
When Paul McCartney was a teenage boy dreaming of greatness he would sit on the loo in his father’s council house on a Liverpool estate, play his guitar and sing. With that slight bathroom echo of lino … read more
The Beatles Go To India
Daily Mail 6.4.18
When the Beatles set off for India in February 1968, they left behind a degree of bemusement and even ridicule among many of their fans. Why on earth were the four most famous young men in the … read more
Sgt. Pepper – Beatles Masterpiece or Sacred Cow?
Daily Mail 27.5.17
You can hardly fail to have noticed that a rather special anniversary is to be celebrated next Thursday. With a festival in Liverpool, a concert at the Royal Albert Hall, several new documentary films on television, and, … read more
My part in the Beatles’ break-up
Daily Mail, August 26, 2016
We were in Canada when John Lennon told me he’d left the Beatles. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. It was just before Christmas, 1969, and a few nights earlier, while discussing his Beatles’ … read more
The Ray Connolly Beatles Archive
Much of my Beatles journalism has now been collected in “THE Ray Connolly BEATLES ARCHIVE” which is now available on Amazon.
Most books about the Beatles are by writers who never met them. I was lucky. I was a journalist … read more
What Was It That Made The Cavern So Special?
Daily Mail, August 7, 2015
You would never have called it glamorous. Based in a couple of stifling, barrel arched cellars beneath a fruit and vegetable warehouse, eighteen steps down from a cobbled alleyway just four blocks from the River … read more
