No artist can manage to be the musical version of Nostradamus, but some albums were more forward-thinking than people had thought.

Sometimes, the temptation to play a prank is so irresistible, and here are five albums that effectively had a joke at the listener's expense.

China and the Philippines have accused each other of dangerous blocking maneuvers near a disputed South China Sea reef.

Paul McCartney absconded to his farm in Scotland to simultaneously settle into family life and start squirrelling away on ...

The result was a self-sabotaging disappointment when the band’s debut record was released, and McCartney immediately thought it was over. “After I had heard Wild Life, I thought, ‘Hell, we have really ...

Vaulting between three distinct sections, the Wings classic was conjured with the same spirit as Abbey Road’s closing medley ...

Vaulting between three distinct sections, the Wings classic was conjured with the same spirit as Abbey Road’s closing medley ...

Had McCartney not decided at age 15 to go hear Lennon’s band playing in a Liverpool suburb, the world would have been denied the multitude of Beatle songs that brightened a generation and ...

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Ian Leslie's “John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs,” takes a detailed look — 426 pages — at how John Lennon and Paul McCartney worked together from their meeting as teenagers until John’s ...

Sir Paul McCartney, with over 300 million record sales as part of The Beatles and an additional 67 million sales in his own right, might seem to have nothing left to prove. However, it appears he ...