John Lennon carried a jukebox filled with 40 records. This musical diary reveals the diverse sounds that fueled his ...

El Topo, a hallucinogenic interpretation of the Western genre directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky, was a film to which Lennon ...

Released on the group’s 1960 debut Hi… We’re the Miracles, “Shop Around,” written by Smokey Robinson and Motown founder Berry Gordy and became their first No. 1 hit on the R&B chart. The song also ...

The books “Ribbons of Rust” and “John & Paul” show how the circumstances of time, place, talent, technology and friendship ...

The Beatles legend John Lennon was a huge fan of cinema and often spoke about how film helped shape his own artistic vision - but one film in particular stood out to him ...

Any artist can spend years trying to come up with original material, but all is fair in love and melodies when pinching from other artists. Read more here.

After ceasing their hectic touring operations in 1966, it's clear that the raucous 'Helter Skelter' is the one song that should have been played live.

No one could have stood around playing Chuck Berry songs until the sun burned out of the sky ... but the next step for someone like John Lennon was to open up his mind a little bit more. He had played ...

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John Lennon, of course. The founder of the band and the well-oiled ... but the rockabilly charm of the piece speaks kindly to Lennon’s earliest influences. Taking notes from Chuck Berry, The Shadows ...

John Lennon certainly had the pedigree to become one of pop ... there was much more nuance than traditional rock and roll songs. Most of Chuck Berry’s greatest tunes pump out the same 12-bar blues ...

Ritchie Valens, Buddy Holly and J.P Richardson (‘The Big Popper’) in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa. Valens himself had long feared flying, after his best friend was killed years before from a ...