American Songwriter

The John Lennon-Penned Beatles Track That Stunned Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson: “It Flipped Me Out”

Some of the best of the best in the 1960s were Brian Wilson and John Lennon, and Wilson respected Lennon's talent, ...
American Songwriter

Remember When The Beatles Never Released Paul McCartney’s 14-Minute Avant-Garde Song, Vetoed Decades Later by George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and Yoko Ono

Wander around all the stuff, bang it, shout, play it, it doesn’t need to make any sense,'” McCartney instructed the Beatles in the studio.

This Underrated Beatles Song Is One of Their Saddest and Most Complex of All-Time

For No One reveals the Beatles at their most emotionally devastating, with Paul McCartney crafting a heartbreakingly subtle ...

In the ’70s, Paul McCartney Shut Down What Could Have Been the Greatest Rock Collaboration of All Time

Bob Dylan, The Beatles, and The Rolling Stones nearly recorded a collaborative album in the late 1960s until Jagger and ...
Irish Central

An Irish Mammy, the luck of the Irish, and the Beatles

How a feisty Irish woman born in India launched the career of the biggest pop band in history and started a club that is still going 60 years on. Mona (Mo) Best was the mother of one of the original ...