The complexity of love and loss in the Beatles’ “Now and Then” Gianna Caudillo November 28, 2023 News, Album Review, Reviews, Rock “One, two…,” counts Paul McCartney, but he is not about to launch into a rollicking, “Well, she was just seventeen! You know what I mean!” This McCartney count-in is more methodical, of lower timbre, ...
Comedy numbers, cancel culture, and crummy sitars: The story behind “Norwegian Wood” Lily Ramus May 4, 2021 Columns and Opinions Photo by Robert Freeman Ranked 83rd on Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Songs of All Time,” The Beatles’ “Norwegian Wood” lit a fire in the burgeoning psychedelic music community. Part of the folk-...
Let it be 50 Stanley Quiros May 11, 2020 Columns and Opinions 50 years ago, the Beatles released Let It Be (1970), their last release after nearly a decade of leading one of the most innovative eras in music history. In this near- apocalyptic Year of Our Lord 2020, the r...
When The Beatles crossed the street: 50 years of Abbey Road Stanley Quiros October 4, 2019 Album Review, Columns and Opinions, Reviews Regardless of someone’s degree of Beatles fandom, a look at the cover of their final recording reveals a deeper familiarity with the world culture overall. Abbey Road, 1969’s greatest contribution to music,...
Ringo Starr receives knighthood, global youth Googles his name Natalie Silver March 20, 2018 News Have you ever heard of The Beatles? I hadn’t either until I googled FIDLAR to conduct research for my upcoming rant on how I got punched in the face at their Pomona show, and this band came up instead. Any...
