- On September 9th, 2009 Harmonix Music Systems released the music video game The Beatles: RockBand which features 45 Beatles songs.
- On August 14, 2005, each of the four Beatles was featured on the cover of TV Guide. The four issues have become collectors items.
- The Beatles have appeared as a group in five films:
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
Help! (1965)
Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
Yellow Submarine (1968)
Let It Be (1969)
- The Beatles' song A Hard's Day Night is ranked #79 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Rock & Roll.
- The Beatles' 2006 compilation album Love was their first album available in stereo and 5.1 surround sound (as a DVD audio disc).
- Rolling Stone magazine published a list of the best 500 albums of all time. The Beatles had 11 albums on the list:
1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
3. Revolver
5. Rubber Soul
10. The Beatles ("The White Album")
14. Abbey Road
39. Please Please Me
59. Meet The Beatles
86. Let It Be
332. Help!
388. A Hard Day's Night
420. With The Beatles
Also on the list were the following albums by individual members of the band:
John Lennon:
22. Plastic Ono Band
76. Imagine
George Harrison:
437. All Things Must Pass.
- The Beatle's song "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" was sung by Paul McCartney and U2 at Live 8.
- In mid-1957, Lennon formed a band called "The Quarrymen." McCartney joined shortly after and Harrison joined in February 1958. In Fall 1959, they changed their name to "Johnny and the Moondogs." In January 1960, Lennon's friend Stuart Sutcliffe joined the band.
The band changed their name several times: "The Beatles," "The Silver Beetles," "The Silver Beats" and later "The Silver Beatles." In August 1960, Pete Best joined the band and they finally settled on "The Beatles."
- "Saturday Night Live" (1975) had a running joke in the 1970s, where producer Lorne Michaels would appear on camera, and invite the Beatles to reunite for one more set on the show, for the handsome sum of $3200 (later upped to $3500). The joke spoofed both the grandiose offers made by Sid Bernstein and other promoters to the Beatles to perform again through those years, and the relatively small budget SNL was given to bring on top musical acts. On one show, John and Paul (who was visiting John in New York) happened to be watching, and nearly rode down to the studio, just for a laugh. George Harrison did appear on another night; a mock argument happened on camera when he was told he couldn't collect the whole fee, since the offer was only for the whole band.
- Their infamous "butcher cover" for the Yesterday and Today album orginated from the Beatles' disdain for photo sessions and the way Capitol Records in America tended to "butcher" their British LPs in repackaging.
(Capitol's habit was to skim tracks off two or three albums, add a stereo mix of their newest single, and issue the results as their "latest album," ignoring the work that the Beatles and producer George Martin had put into crafting the earlier ones.)
Protests over the "butcher" cover from fans, parents, and radio DJs forced Capitol to change the album photo. So soon after they also changed their issuing policy.
- George Harrison nearly missed their first Ed Sullivan show, because he'd come down with the flu. He spent much of their rehearsal time sick in bed at the hotel, and only made the show after a doctor came to their suite with enough medications to get him through the performance.
- Their initial 1962 recording contract with Parlophone Records in England (a division of EMI) was for a series of singles, at a minimal royalty rate. After "Please Please Me" became a hit, EMI gave them a full five-year contract for singles and albums, and better royalties. Brian Epstein negotiated a new contract for them in 1967 just before he died. With its basic terms fulfilled by late 1969, Allen Klein was able to renegotiate with EMI, and got the band the highest royalty rate ever paid to a recording artist or group up to that time - a whopping 69¢ per album. (John Lennon had already effectively quit the Beatles, but agreed to keep mum about it until the deal was complete; Paul McCartney announced his departure a few months later, as his first solo album debuted.)
- After the Beatles stopped giving live performances in 1966, instead of appearing live on TV to promote their latest singles, they made "promos" - a forerunner of music videos - and the promotional clips played in their place. (Individual Beatles sometimes popped up on TV to give interviews, but not to perform as a group.)
- The Beatles were well known for their harmonic abilities: from the highest high, to the lowest low.
- Three members of The Beatles have appeared on The Simpsons:
Ringo Starr appeared in Brush With Greatness (Season 2)
George Harrison appeared in Homer's Barbershop Quartet (Season 5)
Paul McCartney (with his wife Linda) appeared in Lisa The Vegetarian (Season 7)
- Ringo Starr: We thought that if we lasted for two to three years that would be fantastic.
- Paul McCartney: At the beginning I was annoyed with John, jealous because of Yoko, and afraid about the breakup of a great musical partnership. It took me a year to realize they were in love.
- John Lennon: We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep on watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
- John Lennon: When I was about twelve, I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius...I am one, and if there isn't, I don't care.
- George Harrison: I think people who truly can live a life in music are telling the world, "You can have my love, you can have my smiles. Forget the bad parts, you don't need them. Just take the music, the goodness, because it's the very best, and it's the part I give most willingly."
- Paul McCartney: A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.
- John Lennon: (When asked, Can we look forward to any more Beatle movies?) Well, there'll be many more but I don't know whether you can look forward to them or not.
- John Lennon: I'd like to say thank you on behalf of the group and myself and I hoped we passed the audition.
- Paul McCartney: Us, communists? Why, we can't be communists. We're the world's number one capitalists. Imagine us communists!
- John Lennon: I didn't leave the Beatles. The Beatles have left the Beatles--but no one wants to be the one to say the party's over.
- Paul McCartney: I'm really glad that most of our songs were about love, peace and understanding.
- George Harrison: (When asked, What do you do when you're cooped up in a hotel room between shows?) We ice skate.
- Ringo Starr: (When asked, Are you going to get haircuts over in America?) What do you mean? We got them yesterday!
- John Lennon: (When asked, How do you feel about teenagers imitating you with Beatle wigs?) They are not imitating us, because we don't wear Beatle wigs.
- Ringo Starr: (When asked, How do you feel about the invasion of your privacy all the time?) The only time it bothers us, is when they get us down to the floor and really mangle us!
- Paul McCartney: (When asked, The French have not made their mind up about the Beatles. What do you think of them?) Oh, we like the Beatles, they're great!
- John Lennon: (When asked, Does all the adulation from teenage girls affect you?) When I feel my head start to swell, I look at Ringo and know perfectly well we're not supermen.
- Ringo Starr: (When asked what he thought about their airliner's smoking engine as it landed) Beatles, women and children first!
- John Lennon: (When asked, Do you plan to record any anti-war songs?) All our songs are anti-war.
- Ringo Starr: I hope the fans will take up meditation instead of drugs.
- John Lennon: (In a controversial interview) Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that. I'm right and will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.
- Ringo Starr: There's a woman in the United States who predicted the plane we were traveling on would crash. Now, a lot of people would like to think we were scared into saying a prayer. What we did actually--we drank.
- George Harrison: (When asked about the name of their haircuts) I call it Arthur.
- John Lennon: (When asked about their sudden popularity in 1964) I don't know, it must be the weather.
- John Lennon: (During the Royal Variety Performance before members of the British Royal Family) Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
