The Beatles’ Most-Streamed Song Was Written by George Harrison! Everyone knows John Lennon and Paul McCartney as The Beatles’ legendary songwriting duo, but one of the band’s most-streamed songs came from George Harrison. ☀️ Released on the 1969 album Abbey Road, “Here Comes the Sun” wasn’t originally released as a major US or UK single. […]
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Were you lucky enough to be alive in the few short years The Beatles spent actually out on the road? Count yourself as special, because in hindsight, not that many did. The Fab Four’s decision to stop touring and performing live in 1966 would have been impossible to compute at a time, let alone making […]
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The entire concept of Led Zeppelin wouldn’t have existed if not for Jimmy Page. He may not have been the one singing every song or bringing the same thunder that John Bonham had behind the kit, but thanks to his knowledge of the studio and ability to pump out one riff after the next, half […]
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There was no rule saying that John Lennon needed to have warm feelings about his former bandmates after The Beatles broke up. The fact that they split up at all was because Lennon needed to move on from being stuck in the same band for so long, and he didn’t want to find himself spinning […]
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Paul McCartney is planning a European tour, according to a report in French media. This week, McCartney shared his first piece of music in more than five years with the release of his new single, ‘Days We Left Behind’, which finds him contemplating and reminiscing upon his early life in Liverpool. ‘Days We Left Behind’ […]
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Ever since the 1970s, Robert Plant has been the textbook example of what most rock singers are supposed to sound like. Everyone had fawned over what Little Richard was doing in the 1950s and how The Beatles revolutionised harmony singing in the 1960s, but the minute that the needle dropped on the first Led Zeppelin […]
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Led Zeppelin weren’t the kind of band that wanted to share the gory details of their career with the world. There are many bands that prefer that sense of mystique, and even if the band were gods among men whenever they arrived in a massive stadium, there was always a certain mystery around whether or […]
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When you leave home at 18, and only two years later, you’re on the brink of superstardom hitherto unknown in human history, it stands to reason that your thoughts will often drift to what you left behind. The intertwined subjects of Liverpool and youthful reverie have often been key tenets of Paul McCartney’s poetic muse, […]
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Revolver is my favourite album by The Beatles for many reasons, namely the songs. ‘Here There and Everywhere’ is their greatest love song, while ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’ is their finest experimental jaunt, and on Revolver, the two anchor both sides of an album that has plenty more hits for me to enjoy, while I wait […]
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Paul McCartney has premiered his new single ‘Days We Left Behind’ on BBC Radio Merseyside and confirmed his new album The Boys of Dungeon Lane. Despite having the star power to premiere his new single on any radio station in the world, McCartney chose to put the world’s ears on Liverpool. “Smoky bars, and cheap […]
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