A shared love of The Beatles brought together rhythm guitar player Dave Allen, lead guitarist Pete Church and bass guitar player Doug Rice, the three members of the acoustic Beatles tribute group the ...

The Beatles‘ penchant for rock is baked right into their winkingly rhythmic name. Still, they were already unplugging for rootsy acoustic songs while Beatlemania was still raging in 1964. As their ...

To many, The Beatles didn’t make a bad song, and we would agree with that notion. That being so, seemingly anyone could cover their songs, and it would still sound good. However, these three artists ...

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Justin Bieber has been making strategic moves to expand his audience and career within the past year, but last night during an intimate show in Toronto the singer took things back to the basics. Back ...

“Here Comes The Sun” is one of the most important songs in The Beatles’ catalog. Released in 1969, it’s a defining single for the band, beautifully encapsulating the relief at the arrival of spring ...

In 2018, Sir Paul McCartney explained to GQ how and why he wrote “Blackbird,” as excerpted below: “I was sitting around with my acoustic guitar, and I’d heard about the civil rights troubles that were ...

Listen to how Tina Turner, Al Green, Beyoncé and others reinterpreted, revised and reimagined the Fab Four. By Lindsay Zoladz Let’s begin today with some trivia. Who is the only performer to receive a ...

If the backing track on Beyoncé’s new recording of the Beatles’ “Blackbird” sounds especially familiar, there’s good reason for that. It turns out that the cover version she recorded for her “Cowboy ...