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

Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...

The Beatles’ 1969 masterpiece delivers innovative production and start-to-finish magic, keeping it ranked among the 20th century’s greatest album.

“So did the Stones,” he says. “There was a whole bunch of bands that came over to America where if they had an English accent ...

These four songs have become as famous as any in The Beatles' catalog. But none of them were released as singles.

Vinyl is no longer just nostalgia, it is a serious asset class hiding in closets and milk crates. Recent reporting on records "worth a fortune" shows how specific pressings, misprints and ...

Rubber Soul, the last copy. My copy. After I paid the Walmart cashier a ten-spot, Rubber Soul crashed into me like a carom. Suddenly hackneyed pop was cool. Protest music was funny. Those ...

And so this is Christmas, and for those of us who’ve spent decades hunting down every scratchy demo, rehearsal, studio ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “The end has finally arrived,” The Beatles’ company Apple Corps announced with a dramatic flourish in 1996. The ...

We look back a quarter of a century to one of 2000's defining albums, Since I Left You by Australian sampledelic group Avalanches ...

"It sounded as though someone was being murdered. The police were called out for the first time in five years" ...

Which artists have left subtle messages in their record artwork for fans to discover. Radio X looks for the clues in records ...