In 1995, just shy of 30 years since the release of "Paperback Writer," and its B-side, "Rain," The Beatles' guitarist George ...

His aunt asked one question. The answer hit No. 1.

Paul McCartney was a songwriter for the Beatles, writing a fictional story about wanting to be a “paperback writer.” This song came about, he explained, because of his love for the word “paperback.” ...

You knew, the minute you got there, cup of tea and you’d sit and write, so it was always good if you had a theme,” McCartney said for the 1997 biography Many Years From Now. “I’d had a thought for a ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. There are a few ...

Lost footage of The Beatles performing “Paperback Writer” is to be shown for the first time in more than 50 years. The material was believed to have been wiped from archives and deleted forever, until ...

Sonically and chronologically speaking, we don’t often associate Bachman-Turner Overdrive with the Beatles, but the Fab Four is precisely who Randy Bachman was trying to emulate with his 1974 track, ...