Paul McCartney explained why he wrote The Beatles’ “Paperback Writer.” He said the song was partly inspired by “archetypal” paperbacks. Paul revealed what John Lennon said as his bandmate wrote the ...

“Paperback Writer” is certainly a good Beatles song, but it’s not particularly groundbreaking. It’s a fun folk rock song about an interesting character. “Rain,” on the other hand, makes revolutionary ...

"I suppose in a way we invented MTV," George Harrison casually noted in the Beatles' 2000 Anthology book, reflecting on the band's low-key promo clips for "Paperback Writer" and "Rain." It may seem ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. There are a few ...

Beatles tribute band Paperback Writer wowed the crowd and had people singing and dancing at Mercerdale Park on the evening of July 17. It was the first installment of the Mercer Island Parks and ...

You can feel his affection for the characters, for the music and for a Cleveland that still had drive-in theaters, radio DJs with nicknames and dreams that reached all the way to jolly ol’ England.

Sonically and chronologically speaking, we don’t often associate Bachman-Turner Overdrive with the Beatles, but the Fab Four is precisely who Randy Bachman was trying to emulate with his 1974 track, ...