The Beatles’ She’s Leaving Home from Sgt. Pepper’s hides a real story, a runaway teen whose encounter with Paul McCartney inspired the song.
Paul once said writing songs with John Lennon was easy because they had a pleasabt back and forth relationship (at least for a while). That allowed them to work quickly. Yet Paul also wrote rapidly on ...
This month, we celebrate 50 years since “Sgt. Pepper” taught the world to listen. As the years ran on, the “foreign” modes of this thirty-five-minute-long album (Hinduist philosophy, ‘20s music-hall, ...
The Beatles‘ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is often seen as the best album ever. But what is the best song from Sgt. Pepper? Here’s a look into a oddball masterpiece. Sgt. Pepper is often ...
On every Beatles album, you see the majority of songs credited as Lennon-McCartney tunes. However, after the early days of John and Paul writing “I Want to Hold Your Hand” and other tracks “nose to ...
"It was about his boring life at the time," Paul McCartney later said of song that summed up John Lennon's domestic ennui His days were spent mostly horizontal at Kenwood, the 27-room luxury estate he ...
The Beatles have 20 No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. That is more than enough. However, The Beatles had a surplus of album tracks that seemingly also could have peaked at No. 1 if they had been ...