# The News Today, Oh Boy The latest news from the world of the Fab Four Page: Feed: --- ## [The Beatles Played Every Genre Under the Sun. For Some Listeners, That Was Unforgivable](https://thenewstodayohboy.substack.com/p/the-beatles-played-every-genre-under) _2026-08-18 · The News Today, Oh Boy_ Proto-metal one minute, vaudeville the next, musique concrète after tea — the Fabs were a dozen bands wearing the one suit. It's exactly what put the purists off. ## [Michael Jackson Told Paul McCartney "One Day I'll Own Your Songs" — Then He Went and Did It for $47.5 Million](https://thenewstodayohboy.substack.com/p/michael-jackson-told-paul-mccartney) _2026-08-15 · The News Today, Oh Boy_ Forty-one years on from the afternoon the King of Pop swooped on the Beatles catalogue, we untangle the cosy sleepover that started it all ## [The Beatles Were Deported Over a Burning Condom — and That Was the Least Educational Thing That Happened in Hamburg](https://thenewstodayohboy.substack.com/p/the-beatles-were-deported-over-a) _2026-08-14 · The News Today, Oh Boy_ Sent to Germany to have men made of them. What St Pauli actually taught the Beatles was how to spot a transvestite at forty paces, how to be deported in handcuffs, and how to set fire to a condom ## [He Kept a Locked "Beatle Bible" Tracking 1,920 Ways to Cash In on Their Songs — Then Sold the Boys Out for Millions](https://thenewstodayohboy.substack.com/p/he-kept-a-locked-beatle-bible-tracking) _2026-08-13 · The News Today, Oh Boy_ In the spring of 1965 he was "Jamesy", the beaming Robin Hood man the Beatles trusted with every note they wrote. It didn't last. ## [The Beatles Have Just Told Montreal They're All Agnostics — And Nobody in the Room Even Blinks](https://thenewstodayohboy.substack.com/p/the-beatles-have-just-told-montreal) _2026-08-11 · The News Today, Oh Boy_ Twenty months before John Lennon sets light to America with a single sentence about Jesus, the Fab Four hand a Forum press pack the whole confession — God, greed and a shrug ## [The Needle Drops: Ten Beatles Openings That Grab You By The Lapels](https://thenewstodayohboy.substack.com/p/the-needle-drops-ten-beatles-openings) _2026-08-10 · The News Today, Oh Boy_ A cough, a squeal of feedback, a Mellotron dreaming to itself: ranking the ten openings with which the Beatles seized your attention before the first word was sung. ## [THE OTHER GREAT ROBBERY OF AUGUST '63: HOW THE BEATLES SKINNED THE CHANNEL ISLANDS FOR A GRAND](https://thenewstodayohboy.substack.com/p/the-other-great-robbery-of-august) _2026-08-09 · The News Today, Oh Boy_ While a gang lifted £2.6m off the Glasgow mail train, four Scousers were pocketing £1,000 for five nights of screaming, one polythene night, and their last fortnight as human beings ## [The Filthiest Intake of Breath in Pop Is Sitting on Side One of a Record Your Nan Owns](https://thenewstodayohboy.substack.com/p/the-filthiest-intake-of-breath-in) _2026-08-08 · The News Today, Oh Boy_ On the very last song they bothered to finish for Rubber Soul, the Beatles smuggled in a lecherous gasp, a whispered swear word, a counterfeit bouzouki and a theological grudge ## [John Felt Guilty for Being Happy — So He Gave the Walrus to Paul](https://thenewstodayohboy.substack.com/p/john-felt-guilty-for-being-happy) _2026-08-05 · The News Today, Oh Boy_ The three most misread seconds on the White Album weren't a coded death notice. They were a grown man apologising for falling in love. ## [Watch chovy live code (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/OmnKuqJF3zcL) _2026-08-05 · **Sponsored**_ Join Mosh Coding streams with collaborative screen sharing and remote control, open source. ## [The Beatles' First Great Cover-Up Wasn't Drugs. It Was a Wife](https://thenewstodayohboy.substack.com/p/the-beatles-first-great-cover-up) _2026-08-04 · The News Today, Oh Boy_ In August '62 John Lennon married Cynthia Powell in a rain-lashed register office with a pneumatic drill for a wedding march — then the pop machine spent the next 9 months pretending it never happened