The Complete History of the Beatles as Told By Conan O’Brien

The Complete History of the Beatles as Told By Conan O’Brien The world ended in the nineteen-sixties. Or rather, one world ended in the nineteen-sixties and gave way to another, a transition personified by no human beings more clearly than the Beatles. “They are lightning rods for so much that makes the sixties a revolutionary decade,” says The Rest Is History podcast co-host Tom Holland in the video above. “In all kinds of ways, in the twenty-first century, we’re living in the aftermath of what happened in the sixties, rather like people in the sixteenth century were living in the aftermath of what happened in the fifteen-twenties.” Many of the show’s regular listeners will grasp that analogy immediately, though perhaps fewer of those who’ve tuned in to this especially popular episode, in which Holland recounts the complete history of the Beatles with Conan O’Brien. O’Brien has never made a secret of his Beatles obsession, but here he demonstrates it definitively

Added 21 Aug 2026