In an interview with Stephen Colbert, Paul McCartney recalled seeing Jimi Hendrix perform this cover and called it one of the “great honors of my career.” Hendrix was a wizard on the guitar, and it ...

The album is the seventh installment of Williams’ Lu’s Jukebox series of covers collections, which she launched in 2020. Lucinda Williams Sings The Beatles offers renditions of a dozen tunes from ...

The Beatles found inspiration from the earliest rock ‘n’ roll pioneers, and they showed it. Before Paul McCartney and John Lennon grew into prolific songwriters (while being called idiots by a singer ...

If the backing track on Beyoncé’s new recording of the Beatles’ “Blackbird” sounds especially familiar, there’s good reason for that. It turns out that the cover version she recorded for her “Cowboy ...

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The Beatles wrote so many era-defining songs that it's easy to assume every track jumped straight off the pages of Lennon and McCartney's notebooks. But just like every legendary band, The Fab Four ...

As arguably the most beloved, most popular, most influential band of all time, The Beatles are probably the most covered pop artist of the last 50 years. Everybody’s done it, with covers becoming hits ...

Though co-credited with the late John Lennon, the original version of "Blackbird" was written and recorded by McCartney himself during June 1968 sessions for the Beatles' self-titled LP – later ...

From bedroom strummers to arena stars, guitarists have long used cover songs to learn, connect, and create. Iconic riffs and timeless melodies become fresh again when reimagined through a new player’s ...

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For three days during Thanksgiving week, Beatles fans will get a chance to jump in a time machine and watch Get Back, the Peter Jackson-helmed documentary that takes previously-unseen footage from ...