Sixty years after peak Beatlemania, the Fab Four have retained their hold on musicians of all stripes, including some who've attempted the tricky business of reinventing classic pop songs.
Top 10 Secret Beatles Collaborations
Maybe the Beatles all-consuming fame was such that they began to crave a certain anonymity. Maybe they were trying to avoid hassles relating to label affiliations. Or maybe they were just being silly.
Regardless of the circumstance, as the below list of Top 10 Secret Beatles Collaborations shows, history eventually revealed a series of initially anonymous credits while producing, writing and playing sessions under made-up names.
Their choices could be quite inventive, as when Paul McCartney transformed into Apollo C. Vermouth in order to produce the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. But on other occasions, the Beatles made little pretense about hiding their true identities: George Harrison called himself Harry Georgeson, Son of Harry and, while sitting in on Billy Preston s 1971 album