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Denmark Street: remembering its rich legacy

Walking its barely one hundred yards length today, it is hard to hear the echoes of Denmark Street as the birthplace of the British music business. The guitar shops that

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45 Years Ago: Ringo Starr Goes Country with ‘Beaucoup of Blues’

Unlike his standards-focused solo debut, Ringo Starr‘s sophomore genre record didn’t come as such a surprise. After all, 1970′s countrified Beaucoup of Blues harkened back to Beatles-era covers like Buck

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Lennon to be celebrated | The Belleville Intelligencer

John Lennon would’ve turned 75 on October 9 of this year. Four bullets fired on a New York sidewalk by a crazed fan in 1980 ended the life of the

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41 Years Ago: John Lennon Gets Lost Among the ‘Walls and Bridges’

Like most of John Lennon‘s solo albums, Walls and Bridges came with its fair share of bumps along the way. And like much of Lennon’s work starting around the time the

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The Beatles, “Why Don’t We Do It In the Road?” from ‘The White Album’ (1968)

During the late stages of the Beatles’ ‘White Album’ sessions, Paul McCartney made a controversial decision to enter the studio

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Lennon’s mischief revealed – timesofmalta.com

John Lennon’s mischievous schooldays have been revealed in a page torn from his high school detention book. The single page

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John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ Tops Beatles For #2 ‘Most Iconic’ Song Ever

What makes a great song? The beat? The lyrics? Its ‘catchability’? Scientists at the University of London came up with

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Watch Paul McCartney talking about his duets with Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder | Music | The Guardian

In this mini-documentary, the former Beatle talks about the collaborations that featured on his Tug of War and Pipes of

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BBC – John Lennon’s Last Day – Media Centre

On 8th December 1980, one of the greatest songwriters of the 20th century was shot dead in New York City.

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Photographs of John Lennon’s final interview to be auctioned – in pictures | Music | The Guardian

Pictures of John Lennon taken two days before he was murdered by Mark Chapman are up for auction. The photographs show Lennon at the Hit Factory in New York being

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