Nowhere Men: The Dark Side of the Beatles

Nowhere Men: The Dark Side of the Beatles

Available on Prime Video, The Great Courses Signature Collection
S1 E4: Here, Professor Shelden reveals some of the less flattering characteristics of the Beatles. Chief among these is anger, both as a problem for John Lennon (who nearly killed a friend just months before the launch of Beatlemania) and as an outlet for creativity (best seen in one of the Beatles’ early successes, “Help!”).