Our good friend Paul McCartney is usually thought of as the balladeer of the Beatles while his counterpart John Lennon is usually thought of as the experimental rock guy. Of course as with most generalities this isn’t really the case. Many of the Beatles more rock n roll tracks were by Paul (”Helter Skelter” for […]

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#1 The Beatles - Abbey Road (1969)
Actually only my 4th favorite Beatles album. It’s great for sure but it doesn’t bring quite the excitement and experimentation of my three favorite Beatles albums (which are all make the top 10 along with this one.) Side 1 has some great tracks […]

“I Am The Walrus” was the song that made me a Beatles fan.
Growing up I was ignorant of The Beatles for the most part. I thought of them as only a “pop” band that was an earlier era’s fad with songs like “I Want To Hold Your Hand” and “She Loves You.” It wasn’t […]

It seems reasonable enough for the first MusicByDay.com retro album review to be for what is considered by many music critics to be the most important album ever recorded. As an example of the critical acclaim the album still commands long after it’s release in 1967, it ranked #1 on Rolling Stone’s top 500 albums […]