Weird that this song was deemed too scandalous for the White Album, but "Piggies" wasn't. To all Beatlephile parents, skip over "Piggies" when you're teaching your kids about the fellas. Pure nightmare fuel.
An unintentional rock legend died this week, as the inspiration to the classic Beatles track Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds succumbed to her fight with Lupus at the age of 46. Lucy Vodden didn't like the song or its supposed...
February 7th, 1964 the Beatles first came to America. And it was... terrifying. Ringo: Less terrifying than the other four, but he made up for it with charisma, as they say.
At Hyde Park, Neil Young took on the most intricate Beatles song in the catalog with an eight-minute full-on cover of A Day in the Life. Paul McCartney joined in at the end to bring the event to a fitting crescendo.
In this melodious parody, Ringo wants to get more involved with the creative process, while the rest of the Beatles just want to find a place where he won't hound them.
Yoko Ono attended the opening of "John Lennon: The New York Years" and recalled how suddenly her famous husband was taken away from her. She also wears her cute hat like a real champ; how it's staying on her head at such an...
Commercials for mobile phones may as well be inspiring and fun. In this spot, thousands of people pack Trafalgar Square in London and belt out a multi-man karaoke of "Hey Jude." For all the woe we cause one another, at least...
What's the best way for a new band to get noticed? Reference the Beatles in name, song and video, of course. Blame Ringo's Garble Arch manages to surpass all expectations with their beautiful harmonies and smartly-made...
From The Conspiracy Theorist Bible (Beatles 3:16-18)
John Lennon said, "Tell them the truth! Bring unto them the shocking revelation!" Sarasota City Council said, "Let there be Lolz." And so it was done, that the bringer...
Never mess with a classic. YouTube's azz100c shows us how Microsoft Songsmith can ruin even the greatest of classic rock songs with its bland auto-generated instrumentation. They keep the original vocal track, and the rest...
The New Yorker writer puts Mozart and The Beatles into the same category of prodigies, and then flips it over to reveal that the Beatles actually had less-than-notable beginnings and kind of sucked... But the Beatles honed...
David Chapman, the sad and strange man who shot John Lennon "for attention," was denied parole for the fifth time. He'll remain behind bars for at least two more years. That gives everyone plenty of time to re-adjust their...
Paul McCartney played a warm-hearted version of A Day in The Life's live premier at Liverpool's Sound Festival, though apparently making the bus in seconds flat twice (the first might have been due to the LSD-dosed coffee),...
While some holidays have inspired an overabundance of songs (we're looking at you, Christmas), ipoor mama didn't get too many tunes written about her. But here's our favorite song ever recorded with a mother in it: "Let It Be"
As the American Idols proved this year in failure, it takes heart and talent to do the Beatles right, and Wu-Tang's choice to inlay George Harrison's classic ballad in "The Heart Gently Weeps" brings out a previously-unknown...