Paul McCartney discusses the breakup of the Beatles and says John Lennon “instigated” the band’s split in an upcoming interview with BBC Radio 4. More than 50 years after the Beatles disbanded, McCartney is still often cited as the root for their breakup because he revealed in an April 1970 …
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“Harmony, harmony, harmony — no band, no nothing,” explains Charlie Thomas of the Drifters in director Brent Wilson’s Streetlight Harmonies, a new doc tracing the history of doo-wop (available on VOD). Doo-wop could be swoony and romantic, playful and mischievous. It was the sweet-voiced sibling to the insouciant rock & …
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There are songs you need to know, and there are songs you need to hear to believe they existed in the first place. Such is the case with this newly reissued cover of the Beatles‘ “Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)” by the long-defunct Hour Glass, the short-lived band featuring …
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Himesh Patel stars in Danny Boyle‘s upcoming film Yesterday, a movie that supposes a world where The Beatles don’t exist. In the film, Patel’s Jack Malik gets famous pretending he’s the mastermind behind hits like “Hard Day’s Night” and “Hey Jude.” The British actor appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live in …
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