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Songs with chord changes light up brain’s reward centre | Daily Mail Online

    Songs with chord changes light up brain’s reward centre | Daily Mail Online

Record bosses have spent millions trying to create the perfect pop song.They find heart-throb singers who will set teenagers’ hearts aflutter, employ teams of lyricists, and demand a tune catchy

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The Beatles lost millions because of manager Brian Epstein’s blunders | Life | Life & Style | Express.co.uk

    The Beatles lost millions because of manager Brian Epstein’s blunders | Life | Life & Style | Express.co.uk

FIFTY years after his death, Brian Epstein is still known as the man who made the Liverpool band a phenomenon but he often fell short when it came to business

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Mull of Kintyre – Looking back on a Scottish mega-hit – BBC News

    Mull of Kintyre – Looking back on a Scottish mega-hit – BBC News

The late summer might seem like a strange time to write and record a Christmas number one but that is exactly what happened on a Kintyre farm 40 years ago

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Lenin becomes Lennon: As US struggles with Confederate legacy Ukraine announces end to communist monuments

    Lenin becomes Lennon: As US struggles with Confederate legacy Ukraine announces end to communist monuments

Statues and busts of Vladimir Lenin, once ubiquitous in Ukraine, have been torn down in every city across the country as part of a “decommunisation” drive.Volodymyr Vyatrovych, head of Ukraine’s

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Photos: The Beatles’ first ‘out of control’ world tour – CNN

    Photos: The Beatles’ first ‘out of control’ world tour – CNN

(CNN) It was on their first ever world tour in 1964 that the Beatles were catapulted from England’s national sweethearts

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John Lennon’s “Imagine” Is Now A Children’s Book!

    John Lennon’s “Imagine” Is Now A Children’s Book!

Whether it’s your own children/grandchildren, nieces/nephews or everywhere in between, no kid’s book collection will be complete without this new

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Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n’ Roll ’67: The Bad End of the Summer of Love – By bob-calhoun – August 16, 2017 – SF Weekly

    Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n’ Roll ’67: The Bad End of the Summer of Love – By bob-calhoun – August 16, 2017 – SF Weekly

Paul McCartney visited the Haight in May 1967 to spin a copy of the still-unreleased Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club

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Ringo Starr Shares Country-Tinged ‘So Wrong For So Long’ From New Album: Exclusive | Billboard

    Ringo Starr Shares Country-Tinged ‘So Wrong For So Long’ From New Album: Exclusive | Billboard

Ringo Starr’s new album Give More Love comes out Sept. 15, but you can catch an exclusive first listen to

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Breaking the Illusion: Hamburg and The Beatles’ Gritty Roots

    Breaking the Illusion: Hamburg and The Beatles’ Gritty Roots

For the longest time, The Beatles Story started with manager Brian Epstein stumbling upon the group in Liverpool’s Cavern Club

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Ed Goldman: Author Tony Conley celebrates Sir Paul in new book. Part 1 of 2 – Sacramento Business Journal

    Ed Goldman: Author Tony Conley celebrates Sir Paul in new book. Part 1 of 2 – Sacramento Business Journal

Tony Conley is 57 and became a dad for the first time only four years ago. But he’s had another baby gestating for more than 20 years: “Paul McCartney In

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