When it comes to Beatles nostalgia, the band's self-titled 1968 "White Album" has a king-size reputation — the biggest album (30 songs!) by the biggest band in the world at the time. But, to ...
Tim Riley, associate professor of digital journalism at Emerson College. Author of “Lennon: The Man, The Myth, The Music” and “Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary.” He also edits the Riley Rock Index, a ...
If in doubt, listen to the shows from 1964, when Jimmie Nicol filled in for Ringo, or to Eric Clapton on “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.” The Beatles would have been nowhere at all, however, without ...
As the 60s swung about them and their iconic mop-tops grew increasingly shaggy, The Beatles enjoyed an unprecedented level of celebrity. Ubiquitous, universally adored, John, Paul, George and Ringo ...
Work on the White Album was, for the most part, a nightmare for everyone involved. Band relations were frosty when they weren’t outright hostile, and everyone in the studio was exhausted and fed up.
In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, devoted to the Beatles‘ White Album, Rob Sheffield makes a bold suggestion: Based on the discarded songs on the new “Super Deluxe” edition, it could have ...
“The Beatles” was released on Nov. 22, 1968. I am sorry. Make that “The White Album,” as the ninth studio effort by The Beatles is better known. It turns 50 today. Now do I have your attention? “I ...
For five decades now, Beatles fans on both sides of the Atlantic have been arguing about The Beatles. Not the band itself, but the self-titled double LP released in the U.S. on November 25, 1968. It's ...
Producer Chris Thomas and engineer Ken Scott have been speaking about the double LP, which has the formal eponymous title of The Beatles. The album has already gone platinum 19 times. On the new 50 th ...
When it comes to Beatles nostalgia, the band’s self-titled 1968 “White Album” has a king-size reputation — the biggest album (30 songs!) by the biggest band in the world at the time. But, to ...
The Beatles' "White Album" turns 50. We’ll return to Abbey Road. NPR: "How The Beatles Made 'The White Album'" — "Fifty years ago, just before the holidays in 1968, The Beatles put out not just a new ...
There’s something to be said for having your ears scrubbed clean every so often and experiencing a beloved classic for the first time — again. The 50th-anniversary reissue of “The Beatles,” a.k.a. the ...