John Lennon has certainly given the world its fair share of fantastic melodies, but some of these songs should have either been worked on more or forgotten.

Every singer in The Beatles had certain tunes that got away, but Paul McCartney thought this tune could have been done well by John Lennon.

The Beatles, formed in Liverpool in 1960, released 12 studio albums before their official dissolution in 1974.

McCartney released some early solo songs, but seven of his nine '70s albums arrived under the Wings banner. Two core members ...

George Harrison avoided music for a full year. Here's why he began to feel embarrassed about his semi-retirement.

Songwriting often skips clarity for melody. For good reason. Vocal melodies have limited syllables, and often, the tune takes precedence over the grammar. In an exercise of bending language to the ...

Paul McCartney was involved in The Beatles Anthology project in the 1990s. Here's why he wanted little to do with previous anthologies.

The songs are high quality narratives with melodies and riffs that are digestible for all – earnest and intriguing, only occasionally blistering, and rarely overly complex, whether on a studio ...

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Elsewhere, alt-rock band Weezer's song No One Else is described by its songwriter Rivers Cuomo as being “about the ...

Even an anti-establishment figure like John Lennon was caught in his own rush ... Both their first and last albums feature iconic images of the capital – the staircase of the EMI building in ...