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He is one of the greatest songwriters of all time, and while his solo work is celebrated Paul McCartney mad ehis name, and history, as a Beatle.
A new interactive map containing hundreds of places featured in the songs, music artwork and music videos of Britain's ...
This week in 1967, The Beatles released their eighth studio album, Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band…. Although their previous studio album, Revolver, is now the more acclaimed, Sgt Pepper’s Lonely ...
The Rolling Stones hail from Dartford and London, but their blues sound is rooted in the United States. Mick Jagger explains how they synthesise their sound.
Neil Young has written timeless melodies in his time, but he thinks this songwriter will be still be celebrated long after he's gone.
Though John Lennon and Paul McCartney worked closely together as ... If he’d written 'Strawberry Fields', I would write 'Penny Lane', you know, he’s remembering his own area in Liverpool ...
I wrote ‘Penny Lane,’ so he wrote ‘Strawberry Fields ... McCartney said in the book Paul McCartney: A Life by Peter Ames Carlin. Ono said she would always appreciate McCartney for ...
His new book, “John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs ... reverie loosely based on his childhood, McCartney wrote his own memory piece, “Penny Lane.” Lennon wrote “Imagine” a year ...
The Beatles (from left) George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and John ... By the time we get to the chapter titled “Penny Lane”, a lot has happened: fame; the alchemy of all the ...
Yes we do, when it’s as revelatory as Ian Leslie’s John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs ... “Strawberry Fields” and “Penny Lane” are both memory anthems of where they came from; the ...
Paul McCartney was listening to “Four Seasons ... Believe it or not, the 1967 song “Penny Lane” was influenced by a Johann Bach composition. Specifically, the song was inspired by ...