The Collectors Series magazine MOJO 61 The Beatles The Blue Issue 1967-1970

MOJO The Collectors’ Series THE BEATLES BLUE ISSUE 1967-1970

A new, updated edition of our sold-out Beatles special featuring MOJO’s finest writing on the band’s latter years.

Sixty-five years ago, in spring 1970, The Beatles announced their split to a shocked world. After 13 years together, and 12 studio albums that remain arguably the most important body of popular music ever created, the dream was over.

       Featuring 132 pages of in-depth features and interviews, THE BEATLES BLUE ISSUE brings together MOJO’s finest writing on the group’s fascinating and dramatic last years. Named in honour of the legendary 1973 ‘Blue’ compilation of their late ’60s recordings, it begins with the story of their epochal Sgt. Pepper album and concludes with accounts of the bitter in-fighting that exploded after the release of 1969’s Abbey Road, and continued into the final mixing of their swan song, Let It Be.

        Inside you’ll find such gems as Jon Savage’s deep dive into the Fabs’ much-misunderstood Magical Mystery Tour film; Paul Du Noyer exploring the countercultural complexities of the Hey Jude/Revolution single; and MOJO veteran Jim Irvin investigating the void left by Beatles manager Brian Epstein’s untimely death in 1967. Meanwhile, new features include John Harris’s forensic examination of Peter Jackson’s extraordinary 2021 Get Back documentary and Tom Doyle profiling Now And Then, the controversial ‘new’ Beatles single created by the surviving members in 2023.

        Illustrated with dozens of iconic and rare images, THE BEATLES BLUE ISSUE is a must-have for all Fab Four fans, and follows the equally essential THE RED ISSUE 1962-1966, published earlier this year