The Monkees‘ “I Wanna Be Free” is strikingly similar to The Beatles’ “Yesterday.” That was no accident. One song has a more universal meeting than the other but they’re both great. The Monkees’ ‘I ...
The beatles’ yesterday doesn’t follow the normal musical pattern, and that’s exactly why it works. Paul mccartney wrote it in ...
Paul McCartney said Ringo Starr, George Harrison, and John Lennon didn’t want to add anything to his demo for The Beatles’ “Yesterday.” Subsequently, the band decided the song shouldn’t be a single in ...
Songwriting inspiration can come from anywhere – but the realms of sleep are perhaps the most mysterious. It it the subconscious or something more? The not knowing is part of the magic, and ...
A firm indicator of a song’s popularity is the number of recorded cover versions it has. In the case of Yesterday by the Beatles, the endorsement couldn’t be more substantial, with over 2200 different ...
Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away.Now it looks as though they’re here to stay.Oh, I believe in yesterday.Suddenly ...
Like them or not, it’s fair to say that you know at least something about The Beatles. You can say you aren’t a fan, but for those “non-fans” you likely know the names John, Paul, George and Ringo and ...
Their songs are still as relevant, and fresh today as they were when The Fab Four recorded them in the 1960s. In a word — timeless. The Beatles were harbingers of modern recording. Techniques, like ...
NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- In my life, the Beatles were the greatest rock 'n' roll band of all. So I find it heartwarming that the most successful entertainment act of the first year of the new century was ...
A whole heckuva lot has happened in the last year-and-a-half, so you could be forgiven for forgetting a truly Mad Libs piece of news from early 2022: People were suing the distributors of that Beatles ...
It was 50 years ago today — Feb. 7, 1964 — that the Beatles took the U.S.A. The four sprightly young Merseysiders landed at New York City’s newly renamed John F. Kennedy Airport (formerly Idlewild) ...
Before this semester, Boston College senior Ellie Badger’s knowledge of The Beatles had come largely through a rhythm-action video game (“The Beatles: Rock Band”) her grandparents gave her for ...