Beatles Facts

None of the Beatles knew how to read music. (Paul McCartney eventually taught himself.)

The song 'Strawberry Fields Forever', sung by the Beatles, refers to an orphanage located in Liverpool.

There is a man who claims to have travelled to an alternate dimension in which The Beatles never broke up and brought back a mix tape of Beatles songs no one in this dimension has ever heard.

In 1969, John Lennon called a meeting of the Beatles at Apple Corps to inform his bandmates that he had realized, while on LSD, that he was Jesus Christ reincarnated.

The Beatles wrote into their contracts for American concerts that they would not play in front of segregated audiences.

Paul McCartney dreamed the melody of "Yesterday" one night and immediately wrote the music the next morning. He then looked around for a month to make sure that he didn't subconsciously plagiarize it from somebody else.

Paul McCartney was offered the entire Beatles song catalog for $40 million in the early 1980s and passed - telling his attorney it was too pricey. He had personally advised Michael Jackson about the value of music publishing rights just months earlier. Jackson bought the catalog for $47.5 million in 1985. It is now worth $1.2 billion.