In a 1982 interview with Rolling Stone, Pete Townshend candidly revealed why he didn’t believe The Beatles were a rock ‘n’ roll band. Townshend started off his point of view by stating, “You know, I ...
In How the Beatles Destroyed Rock ‘n’ Roll, musician and writer Elijah Wald looks past the world’s most famous musicians to explore the significance of those who were simply popular in their own time.
We often see The Beatles in the same light as Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven. Some kind of superior form of human who composed music that almost feels like it’s of or even beyond the natural world. Like ...
This year brings an unavoidable wave of Beatles tributes, with TV specials, media coverage, a new CD boxed set, and celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the band’s arrival in America. But amid ...
Although they reshaped music as we know it, the Beatles never shied away from their influences. Their earliest albums included covers of songs by some of their favorite American artists, including ...
Imagine there's no Rolling Stones. In addition to the super-racist and scary alternate dimension revealed in Peacemaker Season 2, Episode 6, the show also rolls out a diverging timeline for the ...
The '80s were marked by dizzying highs and catastrophic lows for ex-members of the Beatles. The title of this sharp and snarky rocker, originally found in a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, became ...
Despite his criticisms, Frank Sinatra called The Beatles' Something the greatest love song of the past 50 years and recorded ...
This article first appeared on The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service. Subscribe to their newsletter. In July 1969, I emerged from the ...
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