The rose-tinted view of it all is that being in a band is all fun and games. It’s gigs and beer, laughing backstage, travelling around playing card games in a splitter van and pulling over to get junk food from service stations before going off again on more adventures. But anyone who has ever been […]
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Almost every musician has a dream collaborator; even one as longstanding and legendary as a certain Sir Paul McCartney. From an outsider’s perspective, it looks like our Macca has done just about everything he’s ever set his mind to. Aside from the obvious, like performing as part of the world’s greatest-ever rock band in history […]
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Fear arrived before confidence ever had a chance. In August 1968, inside the offices of Apple Records, Mary Hopkinwaited, certain she did not belong. She was eighteen years old, newly discovered, carrying a voice that felt fragile in her own ears. Around her were names already etched into history. They were The Beatles. She was […]
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Double Fantasy was, of course, the swan song for John Lennon. He couldn’t have predicted what happened next, but he did have an odd prescience of knowing how things were meant to be. By this point in his life, he had experienced enough torment and tumult that when his children came along, it provided him […]
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On December 2, 2025, just hours after the news broke that Richard Cole had passed away at the age of 75, a quiet but deeply moving gathering took place far from the spotlight. It was 9:40 p.m. local time at a private hall on the outskirts of London, a discreet indoor venue chosen for its […]
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November 29, 2001. Los Angeles was quiet that morning, unaware of the weight being carried toward a single front door. Paul McCartney paused before knocking, knowing time had narrowed to its thinnest edge. There were no songs left to write together, no stages waiting. Only truth remained, and the courage to speak it. Inside, George […]
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The Beatles were Motown fanatics; there is no two ways around it. From the covers of songs like ‘Please Mister Postman’ and ‘You Really Got a Hold on Me’ to Paul McCartney’s appreciation of bassist James Jamerson, the early Beatles sound was at least partially, if not significantly, indebted to the sound coming out of […]
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In the winter of 1968–1969, something extraordinary happened in the United States, almost without anyone noticing at first. There were no stadium lights, no massive advertising campaigns, and no guarantees of success. What there was, instead, were thirty-five relentless nights, a young band from England, and a quiet determination to let music do all the […]
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When Keith Richards spoke about the main difference between The Rolling Stones and The Beatles, he was relatively straightforward with his answer. “I remember Keith Richards saying to me, ‘You had four singers. We only had one’,” said Paul McCartney, recalling the guitarist’s comments, “Little comments like that will set me off, and I think, […]
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When Robert Plant looked around the stage, during the pomp of his career in the 1970s, he must have at times felt like the luckiest man in the world. Don’t get me wrong, Plant was carving out a legacy for himself that had him widely viewed as one of the greatest frontmen in the world. […]
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