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The idea Bruce Springsteen wrote, recorded and ultimately shelved entire albums of music may seem odd to the casual listener.
John Lennon may be a modern songwriting legend, but his envy of this 1970s hit had him just as hungry for songwriting as he ...
Music is full of cover songs, especially in rock, so it comes as no surprise that the five most covered songs are all by the same band.
Fifty-six years ago today, the Beatles were hard at work on their final album while John Lennon recovered from a car wreck.
An exhibit at a Dupont Circle museum in D.C. highlights the period of time John Lennon, of The Beatles, described as “The Lost Weekend.” ...
I did feel that the day was going to come eventually, but it’s not a song I ever wanted to sing,” Julian Lennon told me in ...
According to lore, air guitar was invented in 1969 when Joe Cocker played at Woodstock. Cocker plucked an invisible ...
Instead, over the course of one day, Bowie, Lennon and guitarist Carlos Alomar wrote and recorded a whole new song — Fame, a biting critique of stardom and celebrity that blended funk and soul with ...
When The Beatles were putting together some reunion songs in the '90s, there was one John Lennon track that Paul McCartney was desperate to use.
The Beatles had a number of songs banned by radio stations, which did not stop once John, Paul, George Harrison and Ringo ...