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*** Although for all I know it may just be an urban legend it is has always been said that Tangerine Dream got their band name from mishearing the lyrics of the same song: they thought that "tangerine trees" was "tangerine dreams".
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** Even today, when they're treated as the best band ever to exist in all of history, it can turn younger fans off.
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** Even today, when they're treated as the best band ever to exist in all of history, it can turn younger fans off. off.
* ItGetsBetter: Oh. Dear. God.
** "I've got to admit it's getting better... A little better all the time."
** Well, "It can't get no worse."
* ItGetsBetter: Oh. Dear. God.
** "I've got to admit it's getting better... A little better all the time."
** Well, "It can't get no worse."
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* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: The film ''MagicalMysteryTour''.
** "Revolution 9"
** "What's the New Mary Jane," a White Album outtake that was apparently shelved after George Martin decided one "experimental" track was enough.
*** Besides, "What's the New Mary Jane" is ''almost'' awful enough to make "Revolution 9" sound good.
*** [[YourMileageMayVary Many]] think "Revolution 9" does sound good...
** "Revolution 9"
** "What's the New Mary Jane," a White Album outtake that was apparently shelved after George Martin decided one "experimental" track was enough.
*** Besides, "What's the New Mary Jane" is ''almost'' awful enough to make "Revolution 9" sound good.
*** [[YourMileageMayVary Many]] think "Revolution 9" does sound good...
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* ContinuityPorn: "Glass Onion". Good to know the true identity of The Walrus and what has become of the fool on the hill and Lady Madonna...I guess.
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* [[AmericansHateTingle Americans Hated The Beatles]]: Some of them did. After John's comment that the band was "[[BiggerThanJesus more popular than Jesus]]" ([[QuoteMine taken out of context]]), many American communities, particularly those in the Bible Belt, did things like mass Beatle record burnings (with Lennon's reaction being to point out they had to buy the records to burn them) and throwing objects at them during their concerts. They received no backlash of that sort in their homeland of Britain, where the comment was mostly ignored. On the other hand, their records sold just as well in America after the controversy as they had before.
** The Phillippines are an even better example. Brian Epstein's fumbling of an invitation to visit First Lady Imelda Marcos when the Beatles played the Phillippines in 1966 led to [[http://991.com/Buy/TopItems/LennonGlasses/Stiffed.aspx violent anger]] from Filipinos. The resulting chaos played no small part in the group's decision to stop playing live concerts.
** The Phillippines are an even better example. Brian Epstein's fumbling of an invitation to visit First Lady Imelda Marcos when the Beatles played the Phillippines in 1966 led to [[http://991.com/Buy/TopItems/LennonGlasses/Stiffed.aspx violent anger]] from Filipinos. The resulting chaos played no small part in the group's decision to stop playing live concerts.
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* [[AmericansHateTingle Americans Hated The Beatles]]: Some of them did. After John's comment that the band was "[[BiggerThanJesus more popular than Jesus]]" ([[QuoteMine taken out of context]]), many American communities, particularly those in the Bible Belt, did things like mass Beatle record burnings (with Lennon's reaction being to point out they had to buy the records to burn them) and throwing objects at them during their concerts. They received no backlash of that sort in their homeland of Britain, where the comment was mostly ignored. On the other hand, their records sold just as well in America after the controversy as they had before.
** The Phillippines are an even better example. Brian Epstein's fumbling of an invitation to visit First Lady Imelda Marcos when the Beatles played the Phillippines in 1966 led to [[http://991.com/Buy/TopItems/LennonGlasses/Stiffed.aspx violent anger]] from Filipinos. The resulting chaos played no small part in the group's decision to stop playing live concerts.
** The Phillippines are an even better example. Brian Epstein's fumbling of an invitation to visit First Lady Imelda Marcos when the Beatles played the Phillippines in 1966 led to [[http://991.com/Buy/TopItems/LennonGlasses/Stiffed.aspx violent anger]] from Filipinos. The resulting chaos played no small part in the group's decision to stop playing live concerts.
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** Not to mention how songs from the later period - ''Sgt. Pepper'' and ''Abbey Road'' in particular - where songs meshed as melodies are now broken into individual songs, lessening the impact of each one. Just try to listen to "Carry That Weight" without "The End"...
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** Even today, when they're treated as the best band ever to exist in all of history, it can turn younger fans off.
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** {{Paul McCartney}} also accused Phil Spector of "ruining" the ''LetItBe'' album. Spector was acting as the album's producer at the insistence of JohnLennon.
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** And their only double album is seldom known by its official name, ''The Beatles''; even the Beatles themselves call it "The White Album".
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* {{Mondegreen}}: Among BobDylan's infamous mishearing of "I Want to Hold Your Hand", there's a bunch of others as well.
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* {{Mondegreen}}: Among BobDylan's infamous mishearing of This is how they got into marijuana. BobDylan mistook the lyric "I Want to can't hide" in "I Wanna Hold Your Hand", there's Hand" for "I get high" and thus brought the Beatles into the drug scene while believing they were already in it.
** There's a bunch of others aswell.well, such as...
** There's a bunch of others as
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*** In a startling subversion, if you view it as such, the Beatles: Rock Band starts this medley--which you can play as a package from "You Never Give Me Your Money"--with all 4 Beatles in a studio, performing each song. As The End fades out, there is a pause and then Her Majesty fades in. At the end of the song, the camera zooms out and ''Paul is alone in the studio''. It's open to interpretation but once you compare how this songlist starts, and then how it ends, it's rather saddening.
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** Ringo Starr's drumming is a contentious point amongst Beatles fans. Some call him a creative drummer, others call him a terrible drummer, others find his drumming competent but boring. Some people have, however, acknowledged his [[BoringButPractical competent-but-boring-ness as his greatest strength.]] In a band with three artists trying to go in different directions, Ringo was able to mould to their style and provide a solid backbone to their different styles. He allegedly mucked up ''two'' takes in all the years the band was together.
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** As noted above in CanonImmigrant, The Capitol ''MagicalMysteryTour'' album is so superior to the British two-EP set, if only in form factor, that it has displaced the [=EPs=] in "{{canon}}." Not only did the US album have a 12" version of the 7" British booklet, it also included the band's 1967 singles on Side 2. In England, the album version of ''MagicalMysteryTour'' finally replaced the [=EPs=] in 1976.
* YourMileageMayVary: Ringo Starr's drumming is a contentious point amongst Beatles fans. Some call him a creative drummer, others call him a terrible drummer, others find his drumming competent but boring.
** People have acknowledged his [[BoringButPractical competent-but-boring-ness as his greatest strength.]] In a band with three artists trying to go in different directions, Ringo was able to mould to their style and provide a solid backbone to their different styles. He allegedly mucked up ''two'' takes in all the years the band was together.
* YourMileageMayVary: Ringo Starr's drumming is a contentious point amongst Beatles fans. Some call him a creative drummer, others call him a terrible drummer, others find his drumming competent but boring.
** People have acknowledged his [[BoringButPractical competent-but-boring-ness as his greatest strength.]] In a band with three artists trying to go in different directions, Ringo was able to mould to their style and provide a solid backbone to their different styles. He allegedly mucked up ''two'' takes in all the years the band was together.
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** As noted above in CanonImmigrant, The Capitol ''MagicalMysteryTour'' album is so superior to the British two-EP set, if only in form factor, that it has displaced the [=EPs=] in "{{canon}}." Not only did the US album have a 12" version of the 7" British booklet, it also included the band's 1967 singles on Side 2. In England, the album version of ''MagicalMysteryTour'' finally replaced the [=EPs=] in 1976. \n* YourMileageMayVary: Ringo Starr's drumming is a contentious point amongst Beatles fans. Some call him a creative drummer, others call him a terrible drummer, others find his drumming competent but boring.\n** People have acknowledged his [[BoringButPractical competent-but-boring-ness as his greatest strength.]] In a band with three artists trying to go in different directions, Ringo was able to mould to their style and provide a solid backbone to their different styles. He allegedly mucked up ''two'' takes in all the years the band was together.
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* SureWhyNot: Apple Corps has more or less made "The White Album" an official subtitle to ''The Beatles''.
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* AdaptationDisplacement: Who can listen to "Nowhere Man" and not think of Jeremy Hillary Boob, Phd.? Only someone who's never seen ''YellowSubmarine''.
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* DracoInLeatherPants[=/=]RonTheDeathEater: Invariably occurs during some of the more FanDumb arguments about whose fault it is the band broke up, usually taking the form of "Beatle X was a jerk whose solo material was completely worthless"/"Beatle X was the only sane member of the group and the others would have been nothing without him." John is a frequent DracoInLeatherPants, Yoko a RonTheDeathEater, and Paul is both.
* EarWorm: It would probably be quicker to list those tracks which ''aren't'' examples.
** Even "Revolution 9," but in a bad way.
* EarWorm: It would probably be quicker to list those tracks which ''aren't'' examples.
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* ToughActToFollow: Several of the band members have said, not in so many words, that the worst they could have done for their career was to be in the Beatles. They weren't far off.
** "Carry That Weight" is widely seen as being the Beatles acknowledging that they will be a tough act to follow, that they will "Carry that weight a long time".
* {{Woolseyism}}: Some of the Capitol albums might be sequenced better than the corresponding EMI albums; for instance, ''Meet the Beatles'' got onto the Rolling Stone "Greatest Albums of All Time" list, while the version it "butchered", ''With the Beatles'', didn't. Many fans, including [[TheBeachBoys Brian Wilson]], think the US version of ''Rubber Soul'' is miles better than the UK version. (Capitol cut out most of the more electrified songs in favor of the acoustic pieces.)
** As noted above in CanonImmigrant, The Capitol ''MagicalMysteryTour'' album is so superior to the British two-EP set, if only in form factor, that it has displaced the [=EPs=] in "{{canon}}." Not only did the US album have a 12" version of the 7" British booklet, it also included the band's 1967 singles on Side 2. In England, the album version of ''MagicalMysteryTour'' finally replaced the [=EPs=] in 1976.
** "Carry That Weight" is widely seen as being the Beatles acknowledging that they will be a tough act to follow, that they will "Carry that weight a long time".
* {{Woolseyism}}: Some of the Capitol albums might be sequenced better than the corresponding EMI albums; for instance, ''Meet the Beatles'' got onto the Rolling Stone "Greatest Albums of All Time" list, while the version it "butchered", ''With the Beatles'', didn't. Many fans, including [[TheBeachBoys Brian Wilson]], think the US version of ''Rubber Soul'' is miles better than the UK version. (Capitol cut out most of the more electrified songs in favor of the acoustic pieces.)
** As noted above in CanonImmigrant, The Capitol ''MagicalMysteryTour'' album is so superior to the British two-EP set, if only in form factor, that it has displaced the [=EPs=] in "{{canon}}." Not only did the US album have a 12" version of the 7" British booklet, it also included the band's 1967 singles on Side 2. In England, the album version of ''MagicalMysteryTour'' finally replaced the [=EPs=] in 1976.
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* TastesLikeDiabetes: "Now it's time, to say goodnight, goodnight, sleep tight."
** A deliberately over-the-top example, sung by Ringo, suspected to be written by John.
** A deliberately over-the-top example, sung by Ringo, suspected to be written by John.
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* {{Macekre}}: An [[UrbanLegends urban legend]] sprang up that the Beatles arranged for ''Yesterday... And Today'' to have the infamous "Butcher Cover" as a protest over Capitol mangling their UK albums, as noted in CutAndPasteTranslation on the main page. Go to [[http://snopes.com/music/hidden/butcher.asp the entry]] at {{Snopes}} for in-depth info.
** {{Paul McCartney}} also accused Phil Spector of "ruining" the ''LetItBe'' album. Spector was acting as the album's producer at the insistence of JohnLennon.
** {{Paul McCartney}} also accused Phil Spector of "ruining" the ''LetItBe'' album. Spector was acting as the album's producer at the insistence of JohnLennon.
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* EndingFatigue: "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" has about four minutes of the same repeating guitar riff. This one borders on {{deconstruction}}.
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* HilariousInHindsight: "When I'm 64" became quite appropriate when Paul actually turned 64. At least one radio station played said song on said birthday.
** HarsherInHindsight / TearJerker: Paul's divorce with [[YokoOhNo Heather Mills]] was announced a mere few weeks before his 64th birthday. She didn't still need him, she wouldn't still feed him, when he was 64...
** HarsherInHindsight / TearJerker: Paul's divorce with [[YokoOhNo Heather Mills]] was announced a mere few weeks before his 64th birthday. She didn't still need him, she wouldn't still feed him, when he was 64...
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* CoveredUp: Who remembers the Isley Brothers' version of "Twist and Shout" anymore?
** This could apply to most of the band's cover versions.
** Conversely, Joe Cocker's cover of "With a Little Help from my Friends" (theme song from ''TheWonderYears'') is arguably much more widely known than the original amongst some, to many however, the original is one of their best known songs. Also, Marmalade's cover of "Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da," at least in some circles.
** This could apply to most of the band's cover versions.
** Conversely, Joe Cocker's cover of "With a Little Help from my Friends" (theme song from ''TheWonderYears'') is arguably much more widely known than the original amongst some, to many however, the original is one of their best known songs. Also, Marmalade's cover of "Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da," at least in some circles.
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** In the Yellow Submarine animated movie, when the Beatles time-travel to 2009(!) and see their future selves out the window of the submarine. One of the Beatles remarks, "There's only two of us."
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* EpilepticTrees: The "Paul Is Dead" theory, that Paul died in the early-to-mid sixties and was replaced by a look-and-sound-alike named Billy Shears.
* FanHater: You are not allowed to like what Phil Spector did with ''Let It Be''. Unless you're John Lennon.
* FanNickname: The "Fab Four", the "Fabs". During the PuttingTheBandBackTogether era, fans often referred to Paul, George and Ringo by the PunnyName "The Threetles".
** Also, "Macca" for Paul.
* FunnyAneurysmMoment: John saying "Shoot Me" over and over again in "Come Together".
** John singing "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" is kinda creepy too.
** Even creepier - If you look in the booklet included in the Magical Mystery Tour album, there is a picture of John as he's leaving a small corner store. Just behind him is a sign that reads, "The best way to go is M. & D. Co". Obviously not related, but M.D.C. are the initials of Lennon's killer, Mark David Chapman. * shudder*
** A mid-'60s interview featured John being asked how he thought he would die. His response? "I'll probably be popped off by some loonie."
** The line "I know what it's like to be dead" in "She Said She Said".
** In the Yellow Submarine animated movie, when the Beatles time-travel to 2009(!) and see their future selves out the window of the submarine. One of the Beatles remarks, "There's only two of us."
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Americans love "Eight Days A Week."
** "I Should Have Known Better" reached number one in Norway.
* GrowingTheBeard: Before [[StarTrekTheNextGeneration William Riker]], there was George Harrison, and to a lesser extent, the whole gang. The video for "Strawberry Fields Forever" stunned their fans with their sudden facial hair, and their music started to get more artistically ambitious.
** The pictures on the Red Album and the Blue Album are the same Beatles in the same place in the same pose, seven years apart. They changed a lot in that time...
** They also provide a subversion, however; the one time [=McCartney=] grew a beard was during the sessions to record what would ultimately become ''Let It Be''; the sessions were unhappy and bitter, and they signalled the band's ultimate collapse, resulting in a poorly-received and mixed-quality album.
* HypeBacklash: Perhaps inevitably, they received some of this, particularly in the "Beatlemania" era.
* MemeticMutation: How else do you explain a large chunk of the fanbase believing not only that Paul died in a car crash, but the band replacing him with a double? This makes this trope OlderThanTheNES.
* MissedMomentOfAwesome: Both Ringo and Paul have gone on record as saying they'd much prefer it if the climactic rooftop concert of ''LetItBe'' had ended with the police dragging the band away for causing a breach of the peace, instead of very politely telling them to turn the sound down.
** For that matter, Paul's original concept for the ''Get Back/Let It Be'' project of a live album and a live concert, only partially realized because George didn't like the concert idea and John was too busy with Yoko and heroin to contribute much to the band. Or Paul's other idea to tour small clubs like the early days, which the rest of the band rejected and which Paul later did with Music/{{Wings}}.
** In general, many music lovers would prefer it if ''Abbey Road'' was actually the last album they released, rather than the last album they recorded (''Let It Be'' was recorded earlier but released after): ''Abbey Road'' is made of awesome and is a fitting high point for a band to end their careers on, whereas ''Let It Be'' was ultimately thrown together in order to get it out of the way.
** [=McCartney=] has said that he was visiting Lennon at his apartment in NYC the night Lorne Michaels made his joke offer of $3000 for the Beatles to reunite on ''SaturdayNightLive'' (see ComicallySmallBribe, above). John and Paul apparently toyed with the idea of heading down to the NBC studio for a surprise appearance, but finally decided against it.
*** And [[http://mightygodking.com/index.php/2009/11/10/scenes-from-an-alternate-universe-where-the-beatles-accepted-lorne-michaels-generous-offer/ in some glorious alternate universe]], they [[WhatCouldHaveBeen accepted.]]
* {{Mondegreen}}: Among BobDylan's infamous mishearing of "I Want to Hold Your Hand", there's a bunch of others as well.
** Common mishearings include "The girl with [[strike:KaleidoscopeEyes]] colitis goes by..."
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIutpmN4mtY "Some-day mon-key won't play pi-a-no song, play piano song..."]] C'mon, we all heard that.
** I BURIED PAUL
** "PAUL PAUL PAUL PAUL PAUL". It's actually George wailing "oh" over EricClapton's epic guitar solo in the end of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps".
* NightmareFuel: "Revolution 9". God, ''"Revolution 9"''.
** ''[[BrokenRecord Number nine. Number nine. Number nine. Number nine. Number nine. Number nine. Number nine. Number nine. Number nine. Number nine. Number nine.]] [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Number nine.]]''
** "Blue Jay Way".
---> ''Please don't be long\\
Please don't you be very long...''
** Two instances on "A Day in the Life": The deranged string crescendo, which qualifies as a Middle Note Nightmare, and the creepy looping voices at the very, very end of the song, which qualify as a "secret" LastNoteNightmare.
*** Technically, those looping voices are in a secret track - the "Inner Groove." "A Day in the Life" ends with very faded piano and ambient air conditioning. Which are still LastNoteNightmare.
** Crazed cult leader Charles Manson based his ideology "Helter, Skelter" from the Beatles, believing they were sending secret messages to him through their songs to start a race war where the black population overthrows the whites and they come along and take over since the black population is not fit to rule.
** Those "electronic seagulls" on "Tomorrow Never Knows". It's a '''''heavily''''' distorted clip of Paul laughing.
*** It's not just the "seagulls" that are terrifying: the distorted quality of John's voice, occurrences of percussive sounds played backwards, and the sound of tape being looped rapidly through a tape recorder add to this song's freakishness.
** John's [[EvilLaugh undistorted laughter]] near the end of "Hey Bulldog".
** For me, it's the discovery that John was actually chanting "Shoot me" in the background of the song "Come Together" (according to Bob Spitz's biography) - Paul was supposedly so disturbed by it that he covered up the end of the phrase with a loud cymbal hit, so that it sounds like "shooook!"
** The sound loops at the end of "Strawberry Fields Forever" always creep this troper out.
*** This troper is creeped out by the whole song, from Lennon's distorted voice to the funereal brass to the backwards cymbals that sound like ''a shovel digging a grave'', not to mention the LastNoteNightmare. The acoustic version in the Anthology is beautiful, though.
** The version of "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" on ''LOVE'' proceeds as normal for about a minute and a half, right up until the line "And tonight Mr. Kite is topping the bill!", at which point it segues not into the circus music you're expecting, but rather the riff from "I Want You (She's So Heavy)", with various sounds - including the vocals from "Helter Skelter" - laced through it. Also a major case of MoodWhiplash.
** How about the ending of "Long, Long, Long" when everything starts shaking and rattling and George starts howling into the night.
* ReplacementScrappy: Back in the day, Cavern Club regulars weren't too happy about Pete being replaced by Ringo.
* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Next to Heather Mills, YokoOno suddenly doesn't look so bad.
* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Definitely. It's hard for some younger listeners to appreciate how groundbreaking they were because, basically, every pop-music act ever since is following in their footsteps.
** I think it's more of a case of YourMileageMayVary. Thanks to ''The Beatles: RockBand'', there is a second wave of new fans of the ages 15 to 25.
** This might also have to do with HypeBacklash as well.
* SeriousBusiness: It eventually got to the point that they had to stop touring after 1966, because their fans would reach such levels of hysteria that not even the band itself could hear their music.
** Perhaps the ultimate case of SeriousBusiness is the fact that John was murdered by one crazed fan, and George and his wife nearly stabbed to death by another.
* TearJerker - [[TearJerker/TheBeatles They now have their own page.]]
* TooCoolToLive: John
** Also George.
** When the time comes, and we're not going to be ready for it, we'll feel the same way about [[TearJerker Paul and Ringo]]...
* YourMileageMayVary: Ringo Starr's drumming is a contentious point amongst Beatles fans. Some call him a creative drummer, others call him a terrible drummer, others find his drumming competent but boring.
** People have acknowledged his [[BoringButPractical competent-but-boring-ness as his greatest strength.]] In a band with three artists trying to go in different directions, Ringo was able to mould to their style and provide a solid backbone to their different styles. He allegedly mucked up ''two'' takes in all the years the band was together.
* FanHater: You are not allowed to like what Phil Spector did with ''Let It Be''. Unless you're John Lennon.
* FanNickname: The "Fab Four", the "Fabs". During the PuttingTheBandBackTogether era, fans often referred to Paul, George and Ringo by the PunnyName "The Threetles".
** Also, "Macca" for Paul.
* FunnyAneurysmMoment: John saying "Shoot Me" over and over again in "Come Together".
** John singing "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" is kinda creepy too.
** Even creepier - If you look in the booklet included in the Magical Mystery Tour album, there is a picture of John as he's leaving a small corner store. Just behind him is a sign that reads, "The best way to go is M. & D. Co". Obviously not related, but M.D.C. are the initials of Lennon's killer, Mark David Chapman. * shudder*
** A mid-'60s interview featured John being asked how he thought he would die. His response? "I'll probably be popped off by some loonie."
** The line "I know what it's like to be dead" in "She Said She Said".
** In the Yellow Submarine animated movie, when the Beatles time-travel to 2009(!) and see their future selves out the window of the submarine. One of the Beatles remarks, "There's only two of us."
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Americans love "Eight Days A Week."
** "I Should Have Known Better" reached number one in Norway.
* GrowingTheBeard: Before [[StarTrekTheNextGeneration William Riker]], there was George Harrison, and to a lesser extent, the whole gang. The video for "Strawberry Fields Forever" stunned their fans with their sudden facial hair, and their music started to get more artistically ambitious.
** The pictures on the Red Album and the Blue Album are the same Beatles in the same place in the same pose, seven years apart. They changed a lot in that time...
** They also provide a subversion, however; the one time [=McCartney=] grew a beard was during the sessions to record what would ultimately become ''Let It Be''; the sessions were unhappy and bitter, and they signalled the band's ultimate collapse, resulting in a poorly-received and mixed-quality album.
* HypeBacklash: Perhaps inevitably, they received some of this, particularly in the "Beatlemania" era.
* MemeticMutation: How else do you explain a large chunk of the fanbase believing not only that Paul died in a car crash, but the band replacing him with a double? This makes this trope OlderThanTheNES.
* MissedMomentOfAwesome: Both Ringo and Paul have gone on record as saying they'd much prefer it if the climactic rooftop concert of ''LetItBe'' had ended with the police dragging the band away for causing a breach of the peace, instead of very politely telling them to turn the sound down.
** For that matter, Paul's original concept for the ''Get Back/Let It Be'' project of a live album and a live concert, only partially realized because George didn't like the concert idea and John was too busy with Yoko and heroin to contribute much to the band. Or Paul's other idea to tour small clubs like the early days, which the rest of the band rejected and which Paul later did with Music/{{Wings}}.
** In general, many music lovers would prefer it if ''Abbey Road'' was actually the last album they released, rather than the last album they recorded (''Let It Be'' was recorded earlier but released after): ''Abbey Road'' is made of awesome and is a fitting high point for a band to end their careers on, whereas ''Let It Be'' was ultimately thrown together in order to get it out of the way.
** [=McCartney=] has said that he was visiting Lennon at his apartment in NYC the night Lorne Michaels made his joke offer of $3000 for the Beatles to reunite on ''SaturdayNightLive'' (see ComicallySmallBribe, above). John and Paul apparently toyed with the idea of heading down to the NBC studio for a surprise appearance, but finally decided against it.
*** And [[http://mightygodking.com/index.php/2009/11/10/scenes-from-an-alternate-universe-where-the-beatles-accepted-lorne-michaels-generous-offer/ in some glorious alternate universe]], they [[WhatCouldHaveBeen accepted.]]
* {{Mondegreen}}: Among BobDylan's infamous mishearing of "I Want to Hold Your Hand", there's a bunch of others as well.
** Common mishearings include "The girl with [[strike:KaleidoscopeEyes]] colitis goes by..."
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIutpmN4mtY "Some-day mon-key won't play pi-a-no song, play piano song..."]] C'mon, we all heard that.
** I BURIED PAUL
** "PAUL PAUL PAUL PAUL PAUL". It's actually George wailing "oh" over EricClapton's epic guitar solo in the end of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps".
* NightmareFuel: "Revolution 9". God, ''"Revolution 9"''.
** ''[[BrokenRecord Number nine. Number nine. Number nine. Number nine. Number nine. Number nine. Number nine. Number nine. Number nine. Number nine. Number nine.]] [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Number nine.]]''
** "Blue Jay Way".
---> ''Please don't be long\\
Please don't you be very long...''
** Two instances on "A Day in the Life": The deranged string crescendo, which qualifies as a Middle Note Nightmare, and the creepy looping voices at the very, very end of the song, which qualify as a "secret" LastNoteNightmare.
*** Technically, those looping voices are in a secret track - the "Inner Groove." "A Day in the Life" ends with very faded piano and ambient air conditioning. Which are still LastNoteNightmare.
** Crazed cult leader Charles Manson based his ideology "Helter, Skelter" from the Beatles, believing they were sending secret messages to him through their songs to start a race war where the black population overthrows the whites and they come along and take over since the black population is not fit to rule.
** Those "electronic seagulls" on "Tomorrow Never Knows". It's a '''''heavily''''' distorted clip of Paul laughing.
*** It's not just the "seagulls" that are terrifying: the distorted quality of John's voice, occurrences of percussive sounds played backwards, and the sound of tape being looped rapidly through a tape recorder add to this song's freakishness.
** John's [[EvilLaugh undistorted laughter]] near the end of "Hey Bulldog".
** For me, it's the discovery that John was actually chanting "Shoot me" in the background of the song "Come Together" (according to Bob Spitz's biography) - Paul was supposedly so disturbed by it that he covered up the end of the phrase with a loud cymbal hit, so that it sounds like "shooook!"
** The sound loops at the end of "Strawberry Fields Forever" always creep this troper out.
*** This troper is creeped out by the whole song, from Lennon's distorted voice to the funereal brass to the backwards cymbals that sound like ''a shovel digging a grave'', not to mention the LastNoteNightmare. The acoustic version in the Anthology is beautiful, though.
** The version of "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" on ''LOVE'' proceeds as normal for about a minute and a half, right up until the line "And tonight Mr. Kite is topping the bill!", at which point it segues not into the circus music you're expecting, but rather the riff from "I Want You (She's So Heavy)", with various sounds - including the vocals from "Helter Skelter" - laced through it. Also a major case of MoodWhiplash.
** How about the ending of "Long, Long, Long" when everything starts shaking and rattling and George starts howling into the night.
* ReplacementScrappy: Back in the day, Cavern Club regulars weren't too happy about Pete being replaced by Ringo.
* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Next to Heather Mills, YokoOno suddenly doesn't look so bad.
* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Definitely. It's hard for some younger listeners to appreciate how groundbreaking they were because, basically, every pop-music act ever since is following in their footsteps.
** I think it's more of a case of YourMileageMayVary. Thanks to ''The Beatles: RockBand'', there is a second wave of new fans of the ages 15 to 25.
** This might also have to do with HypeBacklash as well.
* SeriousBusiness: It eventually got to the point that they had to stop touring after 1966, because their fans would reach such levels of hysteria that not even the band itself could hear their music.
** Perhaps the ultimate case of SeriousBusiness is the fact that John was murdered by one crazed fan, and George and his wife nearly stabbed to death by another.
* TearJerker - [[TearJerker/TheBeatles They now have their own page.]]
* TooCoolToLive: John
** Also George.
** When the time comes, and we're not going to be ready for it, we'll feel the same way about [[TearJerker Paul and Ringo]]...
* YourMileageMayVary: Ringo Starr's drumming is a contentious point amongst Beatles fans. Some call him a creative drummer, others call him a terrible drummer, others find his drumming competent but boring.
** People have acknowledged his [[BoringButPractical competent-but-boring-ness as his greatest strength.]] In a band with three artists trying to go in different directions, Ringo was able to mould to their style and provide a solid backbone to their different styles. He allegedly mucked up ''two'' takes in all the years the band was together.
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** Don't forget "Yesterday". That came to Paul ''in a dream''. He literally dreampt up the most covered song ever. The melody came so easily to him that he felt the need to play it for almost everyone he met to make sure he wasn't just remembering a song he already knew. If any songwriter could have five minuets in the mind of [[Paul McCartney]], they'd be very lucky indeed.
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** Don't forget "Yesterday". That came to Paul ''in a dream''. He literally dreampt up the most covered song ever. The melody came so easily to him that he felt the need to play it for almost everyone he met to make sure he wasn't just remembering a song he already knew. If any songwriter could have five minuets in the mind of [[Paul [[PaulMcCartney Paul McCartney]], they'd be very lucky indeed.
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* AndStarring: Billy Preston's work on keyboards with the band during the ''Get Back'' sessions earned him a special credit; the "Get Back"/"Don't Let Me Down" single was attributed to "The Beatles with Billy Preston". This was the only time the band shared billing with another artist.
