Like the more celebrated '60s guitar group, the Monkees had great pop success with their first couple records, and noodled psychedelically successfully on their later albums Head and Instant Replay, which makes Headquarters their Rubber Soul/Revolver era. Darker and more brooding songs like "You ...
. The group scored 13 Top Ten rhythm-and-blues and pop hits from 1967 to 1983 (including six number-one rhythm-and-blues hits) under a variety of names, including the Parliaments, Funkadelic, Bootsy’s Rubber Band, and the Brides of Funkenstein, as well as under the name of its ...
Rock and roll represents a dynamic synthesis of rhythm and melody but an oft overlooked dimension is texture. Think the Beatles shifting fromRubber SoultoRevolver.A big part of that great leap forward happened in the overall sonic attack. Today’s artists all attend to matters of texture but ...
Although Lennon would later admit to hating the lyric, "It's Only Love" is a perfect distillation of everything he learned about conflicting emotions from those southern soul records he loved: You're breathtakingly beautiful, but we're always fighting. I know I should break up with you, bu...
The California mod women come on tough, with snide wit filtered through theirRubber Soulharmonies and vintage Rickenbackers. “Hero Takes a Fall” was the breakout hit from their 1984 debut,All Over the Place,when they were still L.A. rock & roll hipsters with a Sixties thrift-shop fashion...
Released on The Beatles 1965 album Rubber Soul, the song was one of McCartney’s oldest, having been started in around 1959. He composed the tune on his first ever guitar, a Zenith, which he still owns. The middle eight section to the song was co-written with John Lennon. “Michelle...
'In My Life': The making of The Beatles' classic from Rubber Soul Paul McCartney closes Saturday Night Live anniversary special with Abbey Road medley - video Paul McCartney 'Here Comes The Sun' by The Beatles: The making of George Harrison's sunshine masterpiece ...
7. "In My Life" - 'Rubber Soul' (1965) UMG6. "Come Together" - 'Abbey Road' (1969) UMG5. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" - 'The Beatles (1968) UMG4. "Hey Jude" - Single (1968) UMG3. "Let It Be" - 'Let It Be' (1970)...
What about onRubber Soul,“Norwegian Wood”? I was trying to write about an affair without letting me wife know I was writing about an affair, so it was very gobbledegook. I was sort of writing from my experiences, girls’ flats, things like that. ...
But this deceptively chipper number from “Rubber Soul” permanently put the lie to the idea that Paul can’t write as barbed a kiss-off song as anyone. “Love has a nasty habit of disappearing overnight,” he sings, allowing for the possibility that these things just happen, but in ...