The Beatles did not like John Lennon’s album cover for ‘Two Virgins’ In 1968, Lennon and Ono released Two Virgins, the first of three experimental albums.

Gary Astridge, left, and Ringo Starr collaborated on the new book “Beats & Threads,” which covered in detail Starr’s Ludwig drum kits and iconic fashion from The Beatles era. Q.

The Beatles in 1969, the year the group performed its famed rooftop concert atop the Apple Corps headquarters in London on Jan. 30, 1969, which would become the “Let It Be” album in 1970.

The opening line of the song is based on a Timothy Leary book discussing The Tibetan Book of the Dead. “Tomorrow Never Knows” was not the only example of 1960s music inspired by Eastern culture.

The Beatles, Hunter Davies, 1968 Hunter Davies was a columnist for the Sunday Times in London, and had interviewed Paul McCartney for the paper. He later suggested he write an authorized book ...

Talking Heads are revered as thoughtful art rockers. But the band's history is thorny, as explored in new book, "Burning Down the House." ...

As Leslie affirms in the book, Lennon and McCartney early on developed a personal and creative chemistry that allowed them to elevate each other’s work to the timeless song classics still heard around ...

As for Paul McCartney, who wrote “Blackbird”, he discussed his inspiration behind the classic in his 1997 book Many Years From Now. Writing the song just weeks after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr ...