Things Have Changed

From Revolver on, John Lennon, who disliked his voice, insisted it be processed or altered, primarily through compression (called ADT), most...

The last song from The Beatles, released late last year.  Simple and elegiac, based on a Lennon demo from the late 1970s, transformed into a...

 "We cannot chose our external circumstances, but we can always chose how to respond to them."  - Epictetus (Stoic philosopher, 50...

From the 2002 memorial tribute concert to George Harrison, organized by his friend Eric Clapton.  This is a beautiful version of All Things ...

Let's feel good today!  From the 1989 tour of Ringo Starr's All Starr Band, it's Up On Cripple Creek, from The Band's 1969 a...

I thinks this makes officially makes me old . . .  Fifty years ago tomorrow, May 11, 1970, The Beatles released their final single, The Lo...

A Lennon-McCartney tune from the White Album but this is a unique version from the Rolling Stone's Rock n Roll Circus in 1968.  John Len...

Perhaps "Classical" classic rock might be a better term but, in any event, the origins and brief heyday of this pop mode are in th...

Another track from the spectacular new version of Abbey Road which contains remastered versions of all the original songs plus another 25 tr...

Just lovely.  A remastered version of Here Comes The Sun, released on the 50th anniversary of the Abbey Road album, the last recorded by The...

Equanimity - The quality of being calm and even-tempered; composure. It was March 7, 161 AD.  Nearing 75 years of age, the ailing Emperor...

James Corden visits Liverpool with Paul McCartney.  Corden's carpool karoake series is always great fun but this one is really special. ...

A continuation of yesterday's post with my favorite songs composed by George Harrison .  The last post covered songs George did with The...

A couple of evenings ago I watched the Concert for George which was being broadcast by our local PBS station as part of its seemingly endles...

Been waiting to post this for a year. Joe Wright, director of Darkest Hour, leads 450 MPs in a warmup sing of Hey Jude between takes. Gary...

Over at Vulture, Bill Wyman (not the metal detecting amateur archaeologist Bill Wyman ) takes us through his personal ranking of all 213 son...

I thought of tracking the musical development of The Beatles by looking at what they were recording or releasing on or around the same date ...

One of the lesser known Beatles songs and one of my favorites, Hey Bulldog was composed and recorded in February 1968.  WARNING: Contains ba...

( From mojo4music ) What was it like to be a Beatle during the height of Beatlemania?   For the answer, go see The Beatles: Eight Days A ...

It was through George Martin that my generation became aware of what a record producer could contribute to the sound of a band or musical ...