Hi there! We are Future Artists, an award winning Film Company/Media Collective based in Manchester, we make thought provoking cinema by collaborating with our audience, and we need your help! Welcome to our upcoming project: ‘The Beatles – Young and Reckless in Hamburg’ In short, we plan to make a documentary film over the next year,   Read More …

Future Artists announces the intention to make a feature length documentary film about ‘The Beatles’, following their exploits during the Hamburg years from 1960 through to 1962. The Beatles ‘ Young and Reckless in Hamburg’ (working title) A project that has been 6 months in development thus far at Future Artists HQ, we feel it   Read More …

John and Cynthia Lennon (1962) John and Yoko Lennon (1969) George and Pattie Boyd (1966) Honeymoon in Barbados: Pattie Boyd and Eric Clapton (1979) Paul and Linda McCartney (1969) Ringo and Maureen (1965) Ringo and Barbara (1981)

So this is Christmas (Lennon’s handwriting): In My Life (Lennon’s handwriting): A Day in the Life (Lennon’s handwriting): Eleanor Rigby (Lennon’s handwriting): While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Harrison’s handwriting):

“Like Dreamers Do” is a song written by Paul McCartney in 1957 and is one of the earliest written songs credited to Lennon-McCartney. It was recorded by The Beatles in 1962 prior to Ringo Starr joining the band, and featured Pete Best on the drums. It was most notably performed by the group at their   Read More …

“Pete Best was a drummer; Ringo Starr is a Beatle” (John Lennon, Beatles Monthly Book #249). “We reckoned we could make it because there were four of us. None at us would’ve made it alone, because Paul wasn’t quite strong enough, I didn’t have enough girl-appeal, George was too quiet, and Ringo was the drummer.   Read More …

Fifty years ago, on October 13, 1962, The Beatles first entered the UK singles chart with “Love Me Do”. The other records in the hit parade on that day were mostly easy listening, country and instrumentals, all genres that would soon be swept away because of Beatlemania. “The Beatles took the shine off everybody else“,   Read More …

This is one of the songs The Beatles played in their audition for Decca Records, on January 1st, 1962. Though the performance by Paul is extraordinary, The Beatles were rejected and another band now forgotten received the contract. Source: Youtube.com