The Kinks changed rock music forever with the use of one particular type of chord on their 1964 hit, "You Really Got Me." ...

The Beatles never lacked creative ingenuity, but George Harrison claimed that he invented his own chord on this classic.

There are very few biographies of The Beatles, Patrick Humphries' 'With the Beatles' covers their career in three parts, 1940-1963, 1964-1970, and 1970 to the present day Patrick Humphries with ...

In that sense, the band do share something in common with Beach Boys songwriter Brian ... completely revolutionised the album ...

Get to grips with this invaluable and interesting addition to the songwriter's vocabulary used by Paul McCartney and jazzers ...

Everyone knows the Beatles’ “Let It Be.” It is an iconic song and one of the Beatles’ best feats. Stemming from a dream, ...

We take a look at four Paul McCartney songs that are bona fide ear worms (yes, they will be stuck in your head after reading this).

There’s never been a better time to make great music and transforming a spare corner into a home studio capable of sounding as good as the pros is just one short read away. If you’re completely new to ...

It’s a sequence of notes and chords that gives a track an identity ... They’re catchy because they’re easy to sing or hum along to and have a habit of not leaving our brains, even when ...

Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and ...

After the Beatles split, it would have been easy for McCartney to put together ... An unnamed Beatle said, "something’ll happen" and the phrase became the band's mantra. After the wild excesses ...

I’ll think of something ... And it’s easy to see what made it resonate. It’s just the sort of melancholy ballad Lynne has always done so well, from the Beatles-esque string arrangement ...