The mark of a great pop song is that it has several meanings or ways into the song, but everything in the song, every component, is synthesized seamlessly. By that definition, the Beatles’ single, ...

Paul McCartney discussed changing the melody for The Beatles’ “Ticket to Ride” with John Lennon. Paul said one part of the song “was very effective, but it was quite cheeky.” The former Beatle called ...

Though John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote dozens of songs together in in their Beatles years, they rarely disagreed about which person contributed most to a particular song. And their post-Beatles ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Of all the ...