Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts.

Frith doesn’t recall when exactly he purchased a tape he assumed was a Beatles bootleg, as it was part of a record collection he bought. However, last week, Frith went to a friend’s house to ...

The '80s were marked by dizzying highs and catastrophic lows for ex-members of the Beatles. This song's positioning at the lead track on the sometimes exhaustingly mechanized Press to Play should ...

But he didn’t bother to actually listen to it. He just assumed someone had put a Beatles bootleg on the tape. Last week, he was transferring some tapes at broadcaster Larry Hennessey’s ...

When The Beatles signed with the Parlophone branch of EMI, Martin, who served as the in-house producer for the label, wasn’t quite sure what he’d been handed. They came in with what he felt ...

I was in the lipstick camp. But if Ziggy was from Mars (magical realism with a dash of science fiction) and the Beatles were from Liverpool (trippy social realism) then of the Fab Four, my heart-throb ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. John Lennon is being honored in a specially minted ...

Legendary rock musician and frontman Peter Wolf joined host Kenneth Womack to talk about discovering obscure songs, “warming up” to The Beatles, his new memoir “Waiting on the Moon” and ...