Give me your music, your art, your huddled masses of words and rhythms yearning to breathe free.
“I’ll play, you know, whatever you want me to play, or I won’t play at all if you don’t want to me to play. Whatever it is that will please you, I’ll do it.” That’s the way George Harrison sarcastically responded to Paul McCartney’s request that he alter his style of playing on “Two of … Read more
In the early 1960s, The Beatles came off as cute and cheeky, while the Rolling Stones – marketed by manager Andrew Loog Oldham as the anti-Beatles – were seen as snide and snarky. The difference in their personas, real or perceived, is evident in this example of how the two bands expressed their Christmas spirit. … Read more
If you could whittle down The Beatles’ double “White Album” to a single-disc LP, which songs would you include (or toss)? First some background: The album, released in the U.S. on this date in 1968, is comprised largely of songs the boys wrote while they should have been meditating during their stay at the Maharishi … Read more
It’s ironic that a tireless war protester like John Lennon would have ever accepted a film role as a soldier. But that’s just what he did back in 1966 when he appeared as Private Gripweed in Richard Lester’s movie “How I Won the War.” The film was an absurd black comedy about the misadventures of … Read more
When Ringo sang the words of Buck Owens’ hit “Act Naturally” on the B side of the 1965 Beatles’ single “Yesterday,” little did he know that acting would become a second career of sorts. “Well, I’ll bet you I’m gonna be a big star. Might win an Oscar, you can never tell,” he wailed in … Read more