Paul McCartney said one song from The Beatles‘ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) was inspired by an American phrase. Paul subsequently said he used the phrase because he thought American ...

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 ...

The half-funny, half-sad reason Ringo Starr refused to sing this lyric from "With a Little Help from My Friends".

Everyone who was there at the time can remember exactly where they were when they first heard The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. For Rick Wakeman, the epiphany came in the living room ...

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 ...

A half-century later, Sgt. Pepper's, which ushered in the rock 'n' roll "concept album" — a collection of songs written around a central theme — and inspired musicians from Pink Floyd to Radiohead to ...

Melanie Coe, the teenage runaway who inspired the Beatles' "She's Leaving Home," looks back on her surreal moment as a 'Sgt. Pepper' muse. “A-Level Girl Dumps Car And Vanishes,” screamed a headline in ...

"Sgt. Pepper" spent 15 consecutive weeks at the top of the charts. — -- It was 50 years ago today that "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" got its official release in the U.K. The Beatles' ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Rock bands are to cover tracks from the Beatles' ground-breaking 1967 "Sgt. Pepper" album to mark its 40th anniversary in a special BBC radio show, the broadcaster said on Friday.

Joe Cocker transformed The Beatles’ With a Little Help from My Friends into a bluesy masterpiece during his legendary ...