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In “We Can Work It Out”, Paul did the first half, I did the middle eight. But you’ve got Paul writing, ‘We can work it out, we can work it out’ – real optimistic, y’know, and me impatient, ‘Life is very short and there’s no time for fussing and fighting …

A new category of programs from the Rock Talk channel. In this first episode we tell the unusual and curious story of the meeting between Deep Purple and George Harrison in a show that took place in 1984 in Australia. In this program we tell many interesting and little-known details, …

Yvonne’s The One” is a song co-written by Paul McCartney & Eric Stewart, from 10cc, during the Press To Play sessions. It appears on 10cc’s latest album, Mirror Mirror.By the time Paul was writing the music for his Press To Play album, he was in full collaboration with Eric [Stewart], …

Lennon had sympathies for the Roman Catholic Irish minority in Northern Ireland and had joined a protest in London on 11 August 1971 that attempted to pressure the British government into removing its troops from Northern Ireland, shortly before Lennon moved to New York.[1] On 30 January 1972 at a …

Written by Lennon and based on a 19th century circus poster John bought from an antique shop in 1967. Mr Kite was William Kite, a circus performer. It is one of the most complex songs of Sgt. Pepper and one with the active participation of the fifth Beatle George Martin. …

The Beatles always idolized us. When they arrived in the U.S. in 1964, John Lennon spent his first night in New York in his hotel room, calling up radio DJs and asking them to play The Ronettes. I took all of them up to Harlem for barbecue ribs. Nobody bothered …

Two Beatles songs, “There’s A Place” and “Money”, had, respectively, John on harmonica and George Martin on piano, an unforgettable and unmistakable base, in the studio recordings.However, The Beatles, live on the BBC, replaced these two bases for George on lead guitar with his Gretsch Country Gentleman. This guitar was …

“Stand by Me” is a song originally recorded in 1961 by American singer-songwriter Ben E. King and written by him, along with Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, who used the pseudonym Elmo Glick. According to King, the title is derived from and was inspired by a number of “Spiritual” written …

There were three ‘Revolutions’” John Lennon explained in 1971, “two songs and one abstract. I don’t know what you’d call it… musique concrète, loops and that, which was a picture of a revolution.”With the exception of the two world wars, 1968 was surely the most explosive and divisive year of …

Also Paul disliked some Beatles songs. It’s difficult to pin down Sir Paul McCartney. The magnetic songwriter and serial creator, has never felt comfortable under the glaring eye of the media. Though he shows his face when promotional material is needed to bolster his latest release, he approaches them differently …