‘A Day in the Life’ is a major contender for the most musically complex song The Beatles ever produced. Its seemingly disparate sections are ingeniously linked with modulations involving experimental […]
The telepathy that Paul McCartney and John Lennon supposedly shared from their early years of songwriting disguises a crucial dissonance between the pair. Often, successful couples require vast differences to […]
In 1969, Allen Klein took control of The Beatles and threw the band’s affairs into disarray. Paul McCartney vehemently disagreed with Klein’s appointment, wreaking havoc in the relationship among band […]
Revolver features some of the most iconic songs in The Beatles’ catalog, including classics like “Eleanor Rigby,” “Tomorrow Never Knows,” and “Here, There and Everywhere.” But where it really gains […]
In the second half of 1962, The Beatles became one of the first British bands to release a debut single they had written themselves from scratch. The song ‘Love Me […]
When The Beatles initially became famous, they were put under immense pressure. While it looked like a lot of travelling and having fun, the band had to play countless shows, […]
The Rolling Stones probably didn’t need to worry about expanding their sonic palette since the mid-1980s. That may have been when their mainline hits started drying up, but so what […]
Every artist has the right to play what they feel. As much as people might like to spend the better part of three minutes noodling around on their guitars whenever […]
After enjoying one of the most colossally fantastic single years of recording any artist could imagine in 1967, would The Beatles have anything left in the tank for ’68? Well, […]
Some of the greatest albums of all time don’t usually get to the point until years after the fact. Whereas a handful of records hit people the minute they come […]