The band's final recordings took place in August 1969 for 'The End' which featured on the album 'Abbey Road'. A month later, John informed his fellow members that he was leaving the band, asking for a 'divorce' from The Beatles.

"When we came, it was quite shortly after Kennedy being assassinated," Paul McCartney says in the trailer, released Thursday. "Maybe America needed something like The Beatles to be lifted out of sorrow." McCartney and Ringo Starr are among the documentary's producers, while David Tedeschi serves as director.

All that changed when the band made Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Find out why the creation of that album was so freeing, below.

Paul Mescal, who may play Paul McCartney in Sam Mendes' Beatles biopics, does not sound like a musician. While nothing is confirmed, rumors of Gladiator II star Paul Mescal playing Paul McCartney in the upcoming Beatles biopics from Sam Mendes have surfaced.