Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Even “Yesterday,” one of the most classic (and oft-recorded) ballads in music history, failed to crack the Easy Listening chart.

But there is something special about these three songs. They weren’t given long titles with a mouthful of words. No, they were given short, concise one-word titles that spoke volumes. Below, these are ...

On a slightly smaller, but no less important, scale, there’s 1965, when so much great, exciting music – by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and Motown, to name just a few – made not only ...

Forty-one years ago today,The Beatleslanded at No. 1 on the UK singles chart with their hit song "Ticket to Ride." The song, ...

Ringo Starr developed as a songwriter over the years. A 1965 song he co-wrote was his first tentative step in that direction.

In 1966, the Beatles famously stopped touring, despite being arguably the biggest musical act in the entire world with millions of fans who wanted nothing more than to see the Fab Four perform live.

The Beatles posing together. From left to right: musicians George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, circa 1965. The Beatles currently claim two spaces on the U.K.’s list of the ...

Paul McCartney and John Lennon had figured out a formula for their early Beatles songs: address their legions of teenage fans ...