Pet Sounds includes … pet sounds. The song “Caroline, No” features barking dogs near the end of the track. The use of animal noises in the album was one of Brian Wilson’s most innovative moves. To ...

In the 1997 book Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now, Paul said “Fixing a Hole” from The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper had nothing to do with heroin. “‘Fixing’ later became associated with fixing heroin but at ...

Lennon sings most of the song, but Paul McCartney sings the middle part, which is a hurried account of his morning routine as a teenager in Liverpool ("Woke up, fell out of bed, dragged a comb across ...

By 1967, what the Beatles did spoke as loudly as the music they made. They had long arrived at their goal, dreamed up when ...

The Beatles have 20 No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. That is more than enough. However, The Beatles had a surplus of album tracks that seemingly also could have peaked at No. 1 if they had been ...

No artist did more to legitimize rock music as a serious art form than the Beatles — and perhaps no accolade symbolized that shift more than the band's magnum opus, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club ...

On the occasion of Paul McCartney reaching another birthday — he’s turning 82 on June 18, 2024 — we bring back this critical ranking of his greatest tunes, first published when he turned 80 in 2022, ...