No artist is exempt from having pieces of garbage spread throughout their catalogue. You can fill your offices with yes men all you want, but every artist is going to […]
Writing hits songs doesn’t always come easy for Paul McCartney. Sometimes, he needs a little help from beyond the grave. When Paul first started writing songs, he did it with […]
Paul McCartney spent the end of the 1960s in a state of distress over The Beatles’ new manager, Allen Klein. He hadn’t wanted Klein as the group’s manager, but his […]
What made the 1968 White Album sessions so unpleasant for The Beatles? The list is long, but you can’t answer the question without mentioning the arrival of Yoko Ono on […]
Although rock ‘n’ roll had its roots in the 1950s, The Beatles became a gargantuan roundabout all other bands had to circumnavigate, whether they liked it or not. In the […]
The musical world changed indefinitely when The Beatles touched down on US soil in 1964, but they were certainly not the only group to usher in the age of the […]
While The Beatles may arguably be celebrated more for their extraordinary innovations in the studio, they honed their craft as youngsters performing to live audiences night after night. Before they […]
If John Lennon had decided to become a music critic instead of a rock star, chances are he would have been one of the most vicious scribes in the world. […]
In the later years of The Beatles, there were John Lennon songs that told you exactly what was happening. “The Ballad of John and Yoko,” the No. 1 hit John […]
The Beatles are a band who, no matter how many words are written about them, it still won’t be enough to accurately convey what they did for music. They’re the […]