Pity the poor session player, whose lot is to provide music with all the guts for none of the glory. The fallout from drummer Zak Starkey’s sacking by the Who rumbles on, with the band’s iconic ...

At the risk of being labeled thanato-phobic – a preoccupation with death or its anxiety – the grim reality is that, last Tuesday, Nigeria’s music world would have lost veteran Yoruba Fuji musician, ...

Bands are firing drummers, and trading drummers, and rehiring back the drummers they just fired last week. It's a full-blown crisis behind the kit. How did it happen?

Paul McCartney's solo career got off to a rocky start. Ringo Starr, the most amiable Beatle, was uncharacteristically brutal in his review of Ram.

It's been 60 years since The Beatles unleashed 'Help!' to the world. Let's explore five bits of trivia attached to the LP's songs.

Wednesday is International Left-Handers Day, founded in 1976 to celebrate the uniqueness — and challenges — of left-handed ...

Parade. Beatlemania reached its zenith on Aug. 15, 1965, when the Fab Four—John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and ...

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Perhaps that's why they later wrote the song "Her Majesty" a few years later. Brown wrote that in 2002, McCartney performed at the late Queen's 2002 Golden Jubilee, and when he was asked about meeting ...

Fifty-nine years ago today, The Beatles were banned in South Africa after controversial statements from John Lennon became international news.

Today in Music History for Aug. 18: In 1930, pop singer Johnny Preston was born in Port Arthur, Texas. Preston's "Running Bear," with Indian sound effects provided by the "Big Bopper," was a No. 1 ...