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Though John Lennon and Paul McCartney worked closely together as songwriters, there was always competition between the two. Paul and John wrote the vast majority of The Beatles' songs, in the early ...

During the recording of Roxanne, Sting accidentally sat on the piano - and the sound made it into the final cut. But what ...

The Exchange, the Weekly’s poetry corner, offers our thoughts in exchange for yours. The Weekly’s poetry corner, where a poem or piece of writing is presented with a prompt. Readers are welcome to ...

Revisiting comments from Elton John about his hit single, 'Your Song', which was his breakthrough track, and he believes it ...

Ellington recorded “Black and Tan Fantasy” several times in 1927 with a small orchestra, showing off the ensemble’s tightly honed, potently expressive sound. Moran converted it into a solo, which he ...

Davenport’s Piano Bar and Cabaret released a statement on its Instagram and Facebook accounts confirming the cancellation of ...

A longtime cabaret institution, the Wicker Park establishment has canceled all of its upcoming cabaret performances. In ...

A band as culturally influential as The Beatles was bound to attract its share of wild theories, urban legends, and even ...

Beatles chart-topper signaled the beginning of a new creative chapter for John Lennon and Paul McCartney, forever changing ...

It's a suite of piano meditations that were inspired by and also feature bird songs. The album began with Cook improvising at a windowside piano, taking in the sounds of the North Carolina woods ...

‘Yesterday,’ one of Paul McCartney ... After writing the song in 1971 on his grand piano at Tittenhurst Park, his home with Ono, Lennon played “Imagine” for DJ Howard Smith and asked ...