A history of the Beatles in verse

2024/09/01 by James Walsh · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · #Music History and Culture #Musicology and Musical Analysis #Theater, Performance, and Music History

paper · doi:10.3828/jbs.2025.4

openalex publication_date 2024/09/01 · openalex created_date 2025/12/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02

Abstract

This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ .

Discussions

• Brian Epstein: 'The Beatles are famous because they are good. But they are a cult because they are lucky.' Read excerpts of my Beatles poem at Journal of Beatles Studies (Liverpool UniversityPress) ( [bsky, 4 points, 0 comments]

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