Your Blind Date with Beethoven
Janet Jackson lifts Satie. Elvis sings Martini. The Stones raided the Renaissance. And let’s not even get started with the Beatles, who regularly tapped the classical music well.
A Beatlemaniacal Pilgrimage Goes Post-Fab
Decades after The Beatles put the city on the map, Liverpool still has a happening music scene with artists like The Isrights, Red Rum Club, and Shards.
Everything Fab Four: “Good Vibrations” and the Beatles
“Pet Sounds” by the Beach Boys rocked the Beatles’ world, especially Paul McCartney. And inspired John Lennon to compose “Strawberry Fields Forever.”
So Close! The Top 10 Number 2 Songs of the 1960s
Our list honoring extremely popular — if not the most popular — tunes of the ’60s starts with Jim Reeves and Patsy Cline and ends with Paul Mauriat and The Fifth Dimension.
Everything Fab Four: Teaching the Beatles
Besides musical composition, The Beatles provide an opportunity to explore everything from politics to poetry. A growing number of academics are using the Fab Four to stimulate critical thinking on a whole ‘nother level.