The mop tops ... "The Beatles invented most of what rock stars do," Sheffield points out in a typical passage: They invented breaking up. They invented drugs. They invented long hair, going ...

Call it a Hard (Boiled) Day’s Night. The Beatles took a break from filming their first movie in this 1964 photo, and helped ...

John’s iconic mop top was cut into a short back and sides by German barber, Klaus Baruck. Brian Epstein, the Beatles’ manager, personally oversaw the incineration of the hair John had had trimmed.

But what about us ol’ amateurs sitting alone in lockdown with Mop Top ‘dos that would put The Beatles to shame? Luckily, Wahl produces some of the best consumer hair clippers that we can use ...

He’s the beloved musical mop-top who left The Beatles to form ‘the band The Beatles could have been’ (Alan Partridge’s assessment of Wings). But how do you compare to Paul McCartney?