George Harrison is often referred to as the “quiet Beatle” and sometimes sadly even as the “forgotten Beatle” and that’s due to the fact that he was in the same band as the greatest songwriting team in popular music history. Lennon/McCartney were good enough to overshadow almost anyone but that being the case Harrison wrote ...
Since their breakup in 1970, the former Beatles and those representing their estates have pieced together various compilations of their music. In 1973, the former band members released “The Beatles 1962-1966 (The Red Album)” and “The Beatles 1967-1970 (The Blue Album).” In the 1990s the three surviving Beatles released the three-part “Anthology” series that contained ...
Most of the two hundred or so songs recorded by The Beatles have lengths of between two and three minutes. Some play for more than three to a little over four minutes, while a few others are comparatively long at over six minutes. But there are songs recorded by The Beatles that are quite short, ...
Maybe I have seen too many movies, but I feel like my life definitely has a soundtrack. Brown Eyed Girl by Van Morrison takes me back to the time I fell in love with my husband. I Want to Dance with Somebody by Whitney Houston makes me remember the days when I twirled around the ...
There is an assumption by many less knowledgeable folks (including many who are actually quite big fans of The Beatles music) that John Lennon was the principle songwriter of a great majority of The Beatles work. I think this myth has grown over the years since Lennon’s untimely death at the hands of a madman ...