Meet The Beatles! (Again)

Top 50 Countdown

The Current staff revisited the back catalog, and invite you to read and comment on our full album reviews. We also counted down the Top 50 Tracks selected by you! Check out the list!

Congratulations to Joshua Will who won the XBOX and Rock Band: The Beatles by being the tenth caller when "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" was played.

Congratulations to Stuart Reid who won the complete stereo re-mastered Beatles box set, a Gold Record plaque, and Rock Band: The Beatles by voting for his Top 10 Beatles tracks.

Guest Posts

Beatles on Film
By Euan Kerr
Films such as A Hard Day's Night, (which The Village Voice called "The Citizen Kane of Jukebox musicals"), Help Yellow Submarine and Let it Be were opportunities to fill in the blanks as to who these four musical magicians might actually be. (More...)

The Beatles' Impact on Art
By Jay Gabler
There's the spare semaphore of Help!, there's the Sgt. Pepper collage, and of course there's the Abbey Road cover that's caused thousands of barefoot tourists to block traffic as they attempt to recreate the cross-street saunter in front of the London studio where the album was recorded. All of those images have been republished, repurposed, and reimagined ad infinitum. (More...)

The Beatles and Fashion
By Jahna Peloquin
So on the eve of the re-release of the Beatles entire catalog, it seems fitting to take a look back at the hugely influential look and style of the Beatles over their ten years of existence. (More...)