The Beatles are considered the most influential band of all time, and are typically associated with the city of Liverpool.
What may surprise some readers, however, is the band's long-standing connections to Edinburgh.
John Lennon was close pals with his cousin, Stan Parkes, who spent much of his life in the capital.
While the two grew up in Liverpool, Stan moved to Edinburgh after his father died - with Lennon visiting often and even describing his long summers in the area as some of his favourite memories.
The two cousins forged a close bond, and would often spend their days walking around the city visiting the castle, or stopping off at the Roxy cinema on Gorgie Road.
Long into his career, Lennon would continue to visit Edinburgh - where his aunt had remarried a dentist and was living in leafy Ormidale Terrace, not far from Murrayfield Stadium.
Marlene Wood, who now owns the Murrayfield property, claims Beatles fans would continue to make the trip to the house where she lived there.
Lennon reportedly penned the song Rain while in the house, which makes sense when you consider Edinburgh’s typical weather.
He used to hang out in the cupboard under the stairs during his visits - as that’s where the phone was.
It's even said that, on one trip up to the capital by bus, Lennon found a harmonica - the very instrument that would later appear on early Beatles hits, including Love Me Do.
Once Beatlemania had gripped the world, the band performed at the ABC on Lothian Road.
Auld Reekie was filled with hordes of screaming teens, for a visit that may not have happened without the willpower of two Beatles fanatics.
Eilieen Oliver and Patricia Conner managed to collect 8,000 signatures to send to the boys, after Edinburgh was snubbed on their previous tours - and they succeeded.
While his bandmates opted for a flashy hotel, Lennon stayed with Stan at his house in Currie after the show.
The following morning, the singer nipped to the local corner shop to pick up a packet of Rothmans; prompting the startled shop assistant to nearly faint.
He even returned in later years with wife Yoko Ono, though the family didn’t take too well to Ono.
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John and Yoko were famously photographed in Shandwick Place on a shopping trip to Lizars, where the couple picked up a pair of binoculars.
In the late 70s, Lennon wrote to Stan expressing his hopes of purchasing the Ormidale Terrace home.
Speaking for an audio diary, Lennon also intimated a desire to return to Edinburgh with his young son Sean in 1981 and show him the Edinburgh Tattoo.
Sadly, this hope would never come to fruition - with Lennon’s life coming to a sudden and tragic end in December 1980.
But Lennon is not the only Beatles members with a clear Edinburgh link.
The band's original bassist, Stuart Sutcliffe was born in the capital, and spent the first few years of his life residing in Chalmers Street near the Meadows.
Sutcliffe, who had moved to Liverpool by the time he started school, is said to have come up with the name for the band - which was first coined as The Silver Beatles.
Sutcliffe joined the group in 1960, and joined the early Fabs on their first trips to Hamburg.
In 1961, however, he became romantically involved with Hamburg photographer Astrid Kircherr, and opted to stay in the city.
Keen to concentrate on his painting, Sutcliffe even enrolled at the Hamburg School of Art where - incredibly - he was taught by Eduardo Paolozzi - the renowned Leith-born sculptor.
While the Beatles would not perform in Edinburgh until 1964, Scotland, in many ways was the making of them.
The band's first proper tour outside of Liverpool was here in Scotland, stopping off at dance halls throughout the north-east.
Included in their jaunt was Dingwall, Alloa, Forres, Keith and Peterhead.
Shockingly, the people of Dingwall did not take too fondly to The Beatles - and while the Fab Four did their best many members of the crowd left before the show ended.
