The Beatles

For many musicians, playing live is the best part of the job — but touring, on the other hand, is a necessary evil.

Watch an exclusive clip from the new documentary 'It Was Fifty Years Ago Today! The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper & Beyond.'

The debate over marijuana legalization doesn't seem likely to end anytime soon, but if it's ever decriminalized, enthusiasts should toke up in honor of the Beatles, who publicly came out in favor of it.

Paul McCartney and Sony have settled the lawsuit he filed back in January to reclaim the copyright to some of his earliest songs with the Beatles.

The Beatles would go on to make some of rock's greatest records at Abbey Road Studios. The band filed into the building for their first session there on June 6, 1962.

Three months after they started the sessions for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the Beatles wrapped recording on what would become the final song on their landmark 1967 album.

With the Beatles off the road, John Lennon became trapped inside the every-day ennui of a marriage he never really wanted.

Paul McCartney wrote "Lovely Rita" because he kept getting fined for expired parking meters.

If “When I’m Sixty-Four” sounds so simple a child could have written it, that’s what kind of happened.

"Within You Without You," the otherworldly last song completed for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, is hardly a Beatles song at all.