“While we were recording The White Album, we ended up being more of a band again,” Ringo Starr would reflect, “and that’s what I always
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The up-and-coming phenomenon of Mersey Beat got its own name and magazine, when the fortnightly newspaper of that name published its first edition for the
By the middle of 1958, the whirlwind of success that had made Little Richard one of the most exciting stars of the original rock’n’roll era
Paul McCartney once wrote that “your mother should know.” But it was Elsie Starkey, the mother of Ringo Starr, who was key to the creation
The legacy of George Harrison is never far from our minds, both for his brilliant musicianship and visionary humanitarianism. But just as he had to
Photo: Tim P. Whitby/Getty Images Born Robyn Rihanna Fenty, on February 20, 1988, Rihanna was just 15 when she was first discovered in her home
The history of singer-songwriters is as rich as music itself. A man or woman singing, accompanied by nothing but a guitar, is inherent to our
Between 1963 and 1970, The Beatles’ catalogue included 25 cover versions – the vast majority included on their albums or EPs up to 1965. But
George Harrison was marching confidently on his own personal comeback trail in 1987 when he entered the Billboard charts on October 24, after a five-year
The story of the recording studio can roughly be divided into two time periods: before and after the 60s. As to exactly where the year