Music and theatre go together like Lennon and McCartney, but, much like The Beatles’ songwriting duo, that is not to say that the relationship between the two is always harmonious. There have been countless crossovers between the recording and theatre industries over the decades, spanning the spectrum from Nina Simone’s heartbreaking rendition of Porgy and […]
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The sharp claws of the music critics would have been nothing for Paul McCartney come the end of the 1960s, and not because he was the golden boy of music, who could largely do no wrong, but because every single song that left The Beatles recording studio would have had to pass perhaps his toughest, […]
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Not every song that The Beatles wrote was meant to be groundbreaking and serious. From the very beginning, the Fab Four had comedy and silliness baked into their DNA. That included yearly Christmas records for their fan club, which was usually little more than some improvised skits. But every once in a while, The Beatles […]
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The biggest goal for Paul McCartney seemed to be to go through life without too many regrets. Not everyone gets to be in one of the biggest bands in the world, and sometimes all it takes is the right kind of people to come together to make the best songs that anyone has ever heard. […]
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Fight among yourselves, but if you genuinely want to stand in front of another human being and try to pretend that The Beatles are, if not the greatest, then certainly the most influential band of all time, then you are simply wasting valuable air. They might not be to your taste, you might think them […]
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Most famous, of course, for his work alongside John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in The Beatles, Paul McCartney and his merry men of Merseyside changed the face of popular music almost single-handedly throughout the 1960s. Although McCartney is hailed on a divine level as one of the apical living legends of the music […]
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Throughout The Beatles’ career, Paul McCartney could usually be counted on to be the most diplomatic member of the group. While none of them were exactly unapproachable back in the day, you weren’t going to find anyone more animated whenever looking at his presence in the public eye, especially when talking about one of their […]
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For all of his shock rock bona fides, Alice Cooper kept most of his influences to old-school rock and rollers. While theatricality was a major part of Cooper’s stage persona, his songwriting had its basis in the classic songs of the 1960s, the same ones that convinced Cooper to begin playing music. No band could […]
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When The Beatles released ‘All You Need Is Love’, it was the epitome of a world in a simpler time. Well, that’s what we like to think now, anyway. But with the biggest band in the world releasing this anthem of utopian unity and broadcasting it across the world for the very first time on […]
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Denouncing any singular song by The Beatles is akin to sacrilege within the musical realm, and it is easy to see why. Not only did the Fab Four preside over one of the most important, groundbreaking discographies in music history, but they did so while amassing a litany of chart-topping hits, too – a feat […]
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