The Beatles in London, July 28th, 1968. © Apple Corps Ltd. Everything we know about the White Album is about to change. The Beatles’ 1968 masterpiece has always been been the deepest mystery in their story—their wildest, strangest, most experimental, most brilliant music. But as it turns out, the White Album is even weirder thanContinue Reading
Nana na naaa! How Hey Jude became our favourite Beatles song | Music | The Guardian
The Beatles in February 1968, the year Hey Jude was written. Photograph: Rex Features/Blackbrow You could argue forever about which of the Beatles’ songs is the greatest. According to the Daily Telegraph, it’s something nostalgic: In My Life. According to the NME, it’s something psychedelic: Strawberry Fields Forever, which wasn’t even the best song onContinue Reading
Beatles song mystery solved using statistics | The Star
HALIFAX—Researchers from Canada and the U.S. have used math to unravel one of the greatest musical mysteries of the modern era: Who wrote “In My Life,” a nostalgic rock ballad on the Beatles’ 1965 album “Rubber Soul.” It’s a song both John Lennon and Paul McCartney have taken credit for, sparking an enduring debate onContinue Reading