that The Beatles headed to London to record “Please Please Me,” along with the B-side “Ask Me Why.” The next day, The Beatles were at the BBC’s Paris Studio, in London’s Lower Regent ...
Almost immediately after The Beatles emerged, there were copycats in 1963, after the release of their debut album Please Please Me, hoards of covers of their songs popped up, including Del Shannon’s ...
Trying to cover a Beatles song and do it justice is not easy, regardless of who attempts it. Still, there have been some memorable covers of classic Beatles tunes. In chronological order ...
Lucinda Williams recently released a collection of covers, and she focused specifically not just on The Beatles, but the songs featured on Abbey Road. The group was also recently the subject of a ...
Nico’s early cover is a gem as well, just ask Wes Anderson ... 40: Van Halen: You Really Got Me (The Kinks) The Kinks’ “You Really Got Me” has a killer riff, so it only made sense ...
“I think if George doesn’t come back by Monday or Tuesday, we ask Eric ... The Beatles had on all musicians in the early 1960s, Larry King asked Clapton if he ever wanted to be the band. “No, not at ...
But the reality is often subtler than that—career-wise, each superstar needed something from the other. Often, one act is a ...
The Rock Hall has long been criticized for the gender imbalance, and I can see they’re trying to remedy and rectify that with ...
While the Beatles appeared to be on top of the music ... “Country music has always been good for me. I just love the emotion of country music. It was quiet big in Liverpool, because Liverpool ...
and sound like me,” says Williams. “I never wanted to try to copy what they were doing, like a cover band doing Beatles songs.” ...
You have to realise that when Dad left, when I was between three and five (it was a bit of a process), it was just mum and me, and we had nothing to do with the Beatles or Dad. I visited him on ...