Your Grandma Betsy may have great advice to give you about love, but that doesn’t mean she’s the only source of guidance. You might be able to find love advice in some unexpected ways, like, oh I don’t know…listening to The Beatles. This legendary music group may be best known for bowl haircuts and catchy rhythms, but their songs actually have a much deeper implication. Don’t believe me? All you have to do is look at the titles. Here are six lessons in love from The Beatles that you could use to better you relationships.

“I Want to Hold Your Hand”

If you like a girl and you can’t muster up the courage to ask her out, just say “I want to hold your hand.” Is it cheesy? Yes. Will it work? Probably not. Nevertheless, you may come across that one girl that is floored by your honesty and totally makes out with you there on the spot. The chances of that happening are low, but it’s gotta be worth a shot – right?

Performing at a great venue is extremely important for any band. Before you headline Glastonbury or fill the O2, you need to build a following and one of the best ways to do this is to start performing gigs at local venues that are popular and great for holding music events. Below are a few tips to consider when choosing the right venue for your music event, and what to do afterwards:

Take a look around

It is essential to search around and find the right venue for your band. There’s no point approaching small folk venues if you’re a heavy metal hip-hop crossover! Take a look around your town and city and ask people in the know if they can recommend venues that might want to hear your band and put you on their stage. When you’ve done this, you can start approaching venues and decide who to will host your event.

Every few years there is a singer or a band which taps into the public feeling perfectly and becomes an icon of the era. It’s impossible to think of the grunge movement of the early 1990s without thinking of Nirvana, of Britpop without naming Blur or Oasis, or disco without considering the BeeGees. The first band to have this sort of impact on a global scale was the Beatles, who dominated the charts through the 1960s and added to the Swinging Sixties ethos of the UK during this time.

Everybody knows that the art world is a very fickle place; many artists die poor and unappreciated, only to have their works sold for millions of dollars later on. It might be said that some artists are simply too far ahead of their time, while others simply fail to gain the critical acclaim that they rightfully deserve during their lives. With this unfortunate (but true) tendency in mind, here are history’s 5 greatest paintings that were not appreciated in their own time:

Claude Monet – arguably the most famous and accomplished painters of the influential impressionist movement – was not always seen as the master that he was. Monet was involved in a groundbreaking movement within the impressionist era known as “en plein air,” which refers to the act of painting outside. One of Monet’s most revered pieces, “Impression, Sunrise,” painted in 1872 was the result of Monet’s participation in the technique of “en plein air.” In fact, it was through the title of this work that Impressionism was given a name. But though the painting is considered to be a masterpiece today, critics at the time were not as impressed. “Impression, Sunrise”, and Impressionism in general, was thought to look unfinished and hastily completed, as if a sketch for a future work rather than the work itself. Many famed critics saw Impressionism, embodied in “Sunrise,” as a threat to traditional Parisian painting, which was firmly rooted in realism. “Impression, Sunrise” is painted so that the viewer can determine for himself what the subject matter or message of the piece is. This participation of the viewer in discerning meaning was thought by critics to be a weakness of the work in the mid-nineteenth century. The artist, after all, was thought to be the authority, not the viewer. Since this time, modern critics have come to see the skillful nature and groundbreaking craft employed in the painting of “Impressionism, Sunrise,” as Monet painted the beauty he found in the ordinary, physical world rather than the elevated, metaphysical world.