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.

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?