I recently came across the following quote from Norman Smith (who was The Beatles recording engineer from Please Please Me through Rubber Soul)
I don’t want to take anything away from anyone, but production of the Beatles was very simple, because it was ready-made. Paul was a very great influence in terms of the production, especially […]

As you may have guessed from my name, I enjoy psychedelic music quite a bit. And like many of the other writes on this blog, I am a huge Beatles fan. So that leads me to this inevitable post about some of my favorite psychedelic Beatles songs.
First let me clarify what I mean by […]

Another way to look at the John Vs. Paul battle that has been my muse this week: Who wrote more of their #1 hits? I’m going to focus on the 27 Beatles songs that reached #1 in either the US or the UK (in many cases their songs reached #1 in both.) It’ll be […]

I just came up with an idea of one way to settle (I’m joking of course, I don’t expect anything to ever settle this debate) the age old John Lennon Vs. Paul McCartney debate about who contributed more to The Beatles music. Or at least who wrote more of their most popular songs.
I’ve been […]

Continuing the John Vs. Paul series I started yesterday with Please Please Me, this is The Beatles second album, 1963’s With The Beatles.
With The Beatles (1963)
The Beatles second album had 8 originals and 6 cover songs just like their debut. It is considered by most Beatles fans to be one of their lesser efforts. […]

Some of the comments for my last post about The Beatles songs that Paul McCartney wrote have lead me to the idea of doing an album by album series on who contributed more to each Beatles album; John Lennon or Paul McCartney. I’ll start off at the beginning with The Beatles debut album, Please Please […]

Paul McCartney wrote and sang lead vocals on about half of The Beatles songs (”Hey Jude,” “Let It Be,” “Helter Skelter,” “Yesterday,” & “Eleanor Rigby” to name just five of the many classics he wrote & sang lead on.) McCartney was also the bassist for the band and in my opinion he wrote (and […]

EDIT: New article on the most popular remastered Beatles CDs on Amazon.
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This is a list of the highest selling albums by The Beatles on Amazon as derived by their top 100 selling classic rock albums list (which includes some albums that are definitely not classic rock.)
I find it very interesting to see which albums […]

As a follow-up to my last post on the top 10 artists on Last.FM, I thought it’d be interesting to look at the top 10 artists who released most of their music in the 60s and 70s are. I think this gives a good idea of which “classic” artists have continued to stay relevant not […]

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 […]