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When a young working-class Jeff Lynne was growing up in Birmingham, it would've been beyond his wildest dreams that he would go on to work with The Beatles.
John Lennon and Paul McCartney were responsible for writing the majority of The Beatles' songs, but there was rivalry between them as they both tried to out-do each other ...
Are You Gonna Go My Way, released in early 1993, was a key turning point in Lenny Kravitz 's career. Building on the retro ...
One of my recent movie sensations surely was “Rhythm of the Guitar.” For me it was like a Sri Lankan “Mamma Mia,” the ...
Though John Lennon and Paul McCartney worked closely together as songwriters, there was rivalry between them as they both ...
We rank every Beatles album by total sales — from Please Please Me to Abbey Road, find out which records truly dominated the charts.
Activist, composer, and lead singer of the Boomtown Rats, Bob Geldof, teamed up with Ultravox’s Midge Ure to create the ...
George Harrison's style of play influenced the Noel Gallagher-written guitar riff on Oasis' hit song "Supersonic".
Red Pump Special by Rab Noakes is a lovely, assured example of the 1970s singer-songwriter’s craft. Here, we reappraise his 1974 album ...
As Townsend recalled in Mark Lewisohn’s book The Complete Beatles Recordings: “George Martin came up to me that morning and ...
Author John Robb on his new Oasis book, his years of knowing the Gallaghers, and the importance of Manchester for the band.
As the Gallagher brothers’ much-anticipated reunion tour kicks off, our critic looks back at their stratospheric rise to stardom ...