When they weren’t fighting over tedious retakes or working on their own, they were figuring out how to get down drum tracks down after Ringo left the band. But Ringo wasn’t the only one with that idea ...

Music icon George Harrison never understood Paul McCartney's 'fruity' Abbey Road song. By 1969, the cracks that had formed between The Beatles during the recording of The White Album and Let It Be had ...

Maxwell’s Silver Hammer became one of the toughest moments of Abbey Road as the Beatles grew frustrated while Paul McCartney pushed to perfect it.

Harry Styles is no stranger to good lyrics. Not just catchy — although he can deliver on that too — but he comes up with meaningful and wonderfully fun songwriting. And it doesn’t always have to equal ...

In March 1939, a then-23-year-old Billie Holiday closed out her set at New York's Cafe Society with a song she hadn't performed before: "Strange Fruit." Written by Jewish schoolteacher Abel Meeropol, ...

Sixty-five years ago, on July 17, 1959, Billie Holiday died at Metropolitan Hospital in New York. The 44-year-old singer arrived after being turned away from a nearby charity hospital on evidence of ...

Music legend George Harrison reportedly struggled to comprehend Paul McCartney's "fruity" Abbey Road track. By 1969, the fissures that had emerged among The Beatles during the production of The White ...