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We are looking back at The Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson as he picks his favourite song from the hundreds he has written ...
Talking about the Beatles is fucking ... prodding him to make a song about motor racing. He reluctantly agrees: It is a challenge to write on assignment. He gets the title, “Faster,” from ...
It marks the first time they, and rights holders Apple, have granted full life story and music rights for a scripted film. “We’re not just making one film about the Beatles – we’re making ...
Lana Del Rey‘s “Henry, Come On,” a new song in advance of upcoming album The Right Person Will Stay, is ostensibly coming soon. Del Rey teased the title overlayed on apparent single art ...
The music critic and journalist Ian MacDonald notes in his book two Beatles songs that Paul McCartney was allegedly ... He asked Lennon to change the title from ‘Yer Blues’, telling him he should ...
The title suggests procrastination, or as George Orwell once put it in Homage to Catalonia, “mañana.” One of indie rock’s most beloved voices had paused music ... the cover art for Remind ...
Heartbreak Hotel by Elvis Presley (1956) That was a culture shifter for me, because unlike most of the pop songs I was listening ... shells together to make the clip-clop noise of horses' hooves.
As a visual art form, music video is naturally suited to choreography. Yet with the exception of Toni Basil’s “Mickey” clip from the ... video for the album’s title track.
The jazz song gained wider exposure after London was featured singing it in the 1956 hit movie, The Girl Can’t Help It. This tune has been covered by plenty of jazz luminaries, Art Tatum ...
The Beatles wrote quite a few songs about marijuana, though some of them are vague enough to fly under the radar.
Paul McCartney and John Lennon wrote the vast majority of The Beatles' songs and were ... a temporary working lyric was used, with the song’s initial title being 'Scrambled Eggs'.