“Elton had become, in America, the biggest rock phenomenon since The Beatles.” Less than a decade in as a partnership, the pair would go their separate ways after the 1976 album Blue Moves. The split came at the time Taupin’s first marriage to Maxine Feibleman (1971-76) ended, and...
The Beatles' records include the best-selling group ever worldwide; most consecutive weeks at number one on the UK albums chart - 30 weeks in 1963 for debut Please Please Me; most viewed Wikipedia page for a music group; and first song to b...
The song went on to sell 1 million copies and became one of the best-selling gospel songs of all time. Several artists recorded versions of "How I Got Over" throughout the years, including Mahalia Jackson, who won the GRAMMY for Best Soul Gospel Perf...
Why do you think the impact of the Beatles was so much bigger inAmericathan it was in England? The same reason that American stars are so much bigger in England: the grass is greener. We were really professional by the time we got to the States; we had learned the whole game. When ...
By 1997 theRumourslineup was back together once again, recording an MTV special that would become the world-conquering live albumThe Dance, which returned Fleetwood Mac to No. 1 on the Billboard charts for the first time in 15 years and became one of the bestselling live albums in popular...
“One to watch” byNME. Enthused by Coldplay’s mix of melodic acoustic indie-folk and hypnotically lo-fi ambience, Parlophone Records, the label that had signed The Beatles, excitedly added the band to their roster in April 1999. “You realise you’ve been working towards getting signed,...
Motley Crue (1983):Motley Crue's relentless, riff-filled second record immediately catapulted them into hard rock superstardom, and remains their masterpiece. Some of us (definitely not all of us) think they even managed to out-do the Beatles with their scorching take on "Helter Skelter." ...
The Beatles’ classic ballad “Yesterday” has a dreamy and gentle melody, with lyrics that feel plucked out of a man’s deepest subconscious. So it’s only fitting that rock legend Paul McCartney came up with the earliest stages of the song in his sleep, then let them pour out of his...
The song George Harrison wrote on the day he quit The Beatles The 10 biggest British Invasion artists of the 1960s, ranked "I really responded to that, it resonated with me. I became so enamoured with the [chord] sequence that I used it on the first two chords of 'For Your Love.'"...