The Who's second album is a less impressive outing than their debut, primarily because, at
the urging of their managers, all four members penned original material (though Pete Townshend wrote more than anyone else). The pure adrenaline of My Generation ...
The last Beatles album to be recorded (although Let It Be was the last to
be released), Abbey Road was a fitting swan song for the group, echoing some of the faux-conceptual forms of Sgt. Pepper, but featuring stronger compositions ...
As expected, the second installment of the Anthology series reflects the Beatles' increasing use of
the studio-as-laboratory during their middle years. Some live material from 1965 to 1966 appears on the first disc, and the second reunion single (Real Love) ...
It was inevitable that the constant grind of touring, writing, promoting, and recording would grate
on the Beatles, but the weariness of Beatles for Sale comes as something of a shock. Only five months before, the group released the joyous ...
From 1962 to 1965, the Beatles made 52 appearances on the BBC, recording live-in-the-studio performances
of both their official releases and several dozen songs that they never issued on disc. This magnificent two-disc compilation features 56 of these tracks, including ...
Capitol Records initially planned to release a live album from the Beatles in 1964, recording
the band's August 23 concert at the Hollywood Bowl. Nobody at the label found the results satisfactory so they attempted it again almost exactly a ...
No one has ever claimed it's the Beatles best album, but it undeniably contains some
of their most magnificent music. That seeming conundrum exists because Magical Mystery Tour isn't really an album per se, but rather a cobbled together mix ...
When Capitol decided to release the original British editions of the Beatles' albums instead of
the bastardized American versions, they were left with a bit of a quandary. Since the Beatles had an enormous number of non-LP singles, some of ...