In 1967, the Beatles included this song on their album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," but Joe Cocker's version ...

In an interview with Stephen Colbert, Paul McCartney recalled seeing Jimi Hendrix perform this cover and called it one of the “great honors of my career.” Hendrix was a wizard on the guitar, and it ...

Lucinda Williams has unveiled plans to release a new collection of Beatles cover tunes recorded at the famed Abbey Road Studios in London, where the Fab Four recorded most of their music. The ...

On August 26, 1964, the Beatles played the only show they ever would in Colorado – at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, no less. It’s gone down as one of the most historic rock concerts of all time, spawning ...

Covers are a dicey game for musicians. On one side of the coin, musicians can reimagine some lauded songs and become lauded individuals themselves. The other side isn’t so pretty, because if the ...

George Harrison wanted the Fabs to record this song in 1963. Twenty-four years later, it gave him one of the biggest hits of his career ...

In 2018, Sir Paul McCartney explained to GQ how and why he wrote “Blackbird,” as excerpted below: “I was sitting around with my acoustic guitar, and I’d heard about the civil rights troubles that were ...

Though co-credited with the late John Lennon, the original version of "Blackbird" was written and recorded by McCartney himself during June 1968 sessions for the Beatles' self-titled LP – later ...