Paul McCartney explained why he wrote The Beatles’ “Paperback Writer.” He said the song was partly inspired by “archetypal” paperbacks. Paul revealed what John Lennon said as his bandmate wrote the ...

Sonically and chronologically speaking, we don’t often associate Bachman-Turner Overdrive with the Beatles, but the Fab Four is precisely who Randy Bachman was trying to emulate with his 1974 track, ...

For all of the great moments The Beatles made on record, they never considered the difficulty of translating this song to the stage.

According to the book Lennon on Lennon: Interviews and Encounters with John Lennon, John discussed “The Ballad of John and Yoko” in a 1969 interview. “It’s something I wrote, and it’s like an old-time ...

On June 16, 1966, the Beatles performed “Paperback Writer” and “Rain” on Top of the Pops. Like many artists before, and after them, who appeared on the BBC show, the Beatles lip-synced through the two ...