Who wrote the majority of The Beatles’ songs? Answer: John Lennon and Paul McCartney were the principal songwriters for The Beatles. Although credited together as Lennon-McCartney, each song was often predominantly written by one...
“Imagine” was purely inspired by John Lennon’s desire for two primary things. The first being world peace. The second being his vision of a utopian world – a world that is devoid of borders,...
“Twist and Shout” is an American classic, one that first became a hit via a rendition released by The Isley Brothers in 1962. The Beatles’ version came out shortly thereafter, on 22 March 1963. It was...
Even now, some five decades after their dissolution, The Beatles are arguably the most-recognizable band in Western pop music history. And it’s also debatable that “Let It Be” is their signature song. For instance, when this track...
The Weeknd has recently decided to become a full-fledged actor, co-creating and co-starring in a hotly-anticipated HBO series which has been dubbed The Idol. Of course being that he is concurrently an established A list musician,...
“Yellow Submarine” is a song that was released on 5 August 1966, through Parlophone (and Capitol), as part of The Beatles’ album that came out that same day called “Revolver”. This project, as with virtually every...
These days it’s somewhat common for songs to be overanalyzed, especially if it’s one with obscure lyrics that comes to us via an artist who is undeniably an A-lister. That’s sorta understandable considering that...
Those of us who have some type of in depth knowledge of The Beatles know that this act proved prominent enough to have even attracted their own conspiracy theories. Indeed, even individuals who worked with...
Ringo Starr will always be known as a musician. But he also sports a notable film career and relatedly has experience as a professional photographer, even going back to his Beatles’ days. That is not to imply that...
The Beatles’ “Tomorrow Never Knows” sounds a lot like a rock song you might hear on the radio even today. But music scholars have concluded that such is not only an acoustic quality of this song....
