Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr reconvened in the summer of 1969 at London’s EMI Studios to sagaciously and ambitiously craft what became Abbey Road, the last album The Beatles recorded together....
The Beatles’ famous, impromptu Savile Row rooftop concert on Jan. 30, 1969, drew me to London to pay homage to the group’s last performance and caused me to recall my own rooftop experience with the comedy troupe The Gramcrackers....
The Beatles had an acrimonious breakup, but Paul McCartney reveals in a new interview that bandmates were a lot closer in the early days… a lot! They would get roaring drunk, sit in a circle and, you know, masturbate together....
I used to talk about the ’60s with Mrs. Davidson, the school librarian, when I was in seventh grade. She was a first generation Beatles fan and when she said she’d lend me some of her old records, the first thing I asked for was Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. It was the band’s eighth studio album, released on June 1 1967, a half-century ago this year. It soared up the charts back then, spending 27 weeks at the No. 1 in the United Kingdom and 15 weeks at No. 1 in the United States....
The Beatles were so protective of their music it took years to even get songs on Apple’s iTunes. But this Christmas one of their hits will enter the maelstrom of commercials encouraging consumers to shop at Kohl’s department store. What would John say? Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, collectively The Beatles, were one of the biggest bands of the 1960s....
Paul McCartney, one of two surviving members of the iconic ’60s group The Beatles, sounds like he still grinds an ax for band-mate John Lennon, who died tragically more than 35 years ago. In a new interview, he grouses that Lennon was “martyred and subject to “revisionism.” McCartney, 72, made the comments in the new UK issue of Esquire Magazine, which he also covers....
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony will be without hip hop artists for the second year in a row, even though the mid-1980s into the 1990s spawned some of the greatest rap and hip hop artists in the genre’s history. Indeed, many music critics call that time period the Golden Age of hip hop. So far, four hip-hop groups have been inducted beginning with Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five in 2007. They were followed by Run–D.M.C. in 2009, white rap group The Beastie Boys in 2012 and Public Enemy in 2013....
Madonna kicked a cast off her foot and is picking out her best high heels to perform at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards. She’s headlining acts that include Sara Bareilles, Daft Punk, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Lorde and surviving Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. The awards show, hosted by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) boasts three-and-a-half hours of almost non-stop music....
Jenn Cormack has a Beatles memorabilia collection; now she’s part of it. She loves them, yeah, yeah, yeah and showed it by getting a giant Beatles tribute tattoo on her back. Cormack wasn’t even born when The Beatles broke up in 1970, and surviving band members Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are old enough to be her grandfather....
George Harrison was called the “Quiet Beatle,” but a new trailer for Martin Scorsese’s documentary on his life offers insight into Harrison, the intellectual Beatle....
The Beatles have finally stepped into the digital age after striking a deal with Apple Inc. to put its music on the iTunes digital music service, ending years of bitter feuding....
