The Beatles song ‘Baby’s In Black’ is the ultimate encapsulation of ‘Saudade’, a Portuguese word that, in English, translates as bittersweet or happy-sad. Behind the beat-era jangle and waltzing rhythm, […]
Mick Jagger has been keeping tabs on new music ever since the early 1960s. Regardless of how many excesses The Rolling Stones indulged in behind the scenes, Jagger knew what […]
Looking through the tomes of John Lennon‘s interviews, you will find a common theme. Lennon, through all his misgivings and unwanted behaviour was, if nothing else, an extremely honest person. […]
The only music that survives is that which touches a nerve. It’s one thing to be able to write a song that a lot of people might want to listen […]
Paul McCartney and John Lennon are rock n’ roll legends, but they never took their talents to the theater. The two were asked many times if they wanted to, but […]
John Lennon frequently used LSD, but one trip was so dangerous that Paul McCartney and George Harrison rushed to help him. Lennon accidentally took the drug during a recording session. […]
With about 200 songs in the Lennon-McCartney catalog, you’d think the two great Beatles songwriters would have some disputes about who wrote which classic tune. However, that was almost never […]
Since rock ‘n’ roll originated in the US, the British invasion was really a wave of sonic appreciation. Similarly, after The Beatles shook up the US charts with early hits […]
In 1957, John Lennon met a 15-year-old Paul McCartney at St Peter’s Church Hall fete in Woolton, Liverpool. The pair got on like a house on fire, bonding over their […]
Despite popular belief that Yoko Ono chased after John Lennon, it was John Lennon who begged Ono to take him back after his year-and-a-half-long drunken bender nicknamed “The Lost Weekend.” […]