L.A. Times - Entertainment — When he was 24 years old, Paul McCartney famously looked a few decades into the future to record “When I’m Sixty-Four,†the Beatles tune about growing infirm by the fireside. Back then, the song functioned as a cozy prediction. Yet... more info
L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — When he was 24 years old, Paul McCartney famously looked a few decades into the future to record “When I’m Sixty-Four,†the Beatles tune about growing infirm by the fireside. Back then, the song functioned as a cozy prediction. Yet... more info
Guardian Music — Paul McCartney wrote the Fab Four's 1968 singalong classic about John Lennon's
son Julian, after Lennon left his first wife for Yoko Ono. At the time it was
titled Hey Jules, but it was changed to Jude because McCartney said it sounded betterâ€... more info
Stereogum — Ed Sheeran plays himself in Danny Boyle’s next film, his first significant role on the big screen.
In the movie written by Richard Curtis, former "EastEnders" star Himesh Patel plays a singer-songwriter who wakes up one day as the only person i... more info
Stereogum — In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.… more info
L.A. Times - Entertainment — After the Beatles formally disbanded in 1970, John Lennon wowed critics with his inaugural post-Beatles solo album, “John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band.†But it took that album’s successor, “Imagine,†to capture the publicâ... more info
L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — After the Beatles formally disbanded in 1970, John Lennon wowed critics with his inaugural post-Beatles solo album, “John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band.†But it took that album’s successor, “Imagine,†to capture the publicâ... more info
Guardian Music — It’s 50 years since Paul McCartney came up with Hey Jude while driving from London to Surrey – and made a song that’s sung everywhere from football terraces to Oxford colleges. Here’s the story of how it came to beYou coul... more info
TMZ — The man who shot and killed John Lennon will have his 10th parole board hearing this week ... and TMZ has just obtained his latest mug shot. Mark David Chapman -- who shot the Beatles member in front of Lennon's Manhattan apartment in 1980 --…
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