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Sorry for the lack of updates recently. My computer died last Monday, so I've been scrambling to get more important work done. I expect ...

The Beatles — Yellow Submarine

One has to wonder if Yellow Submarine , the Beatles' soundtrack album to a film they barely contributed to, an album that features only ...

Yellow Submarine

In the interim between the disastrous reception of Magical Mystery Tour film and the upcoming tension that plagued the White Album sessions...

The Beatles — The Beatles

Many reams have been written on the cover art of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band , its mesh of psychedelic vibes, outside-the-box ...

The Beatles — Magical Mystery Tour

Up until this point in the Beatles' career, their distinct eras of evolution could be charted through what major stylistic changes they ...

The Beatles — Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Of all the Beatles' albums acknowledged as masterpieces (which is almost all of them), perhaps none have suffered more from revisionist ...

The Beatles — Revolver

Well, here we are at last: the Citizen Kane of pop albums. Look at any list of the greatest album of all time and if Revolver isn't in...

The Beatles — Rubber Soul

Almost every album in the Beatles' discography displays experimentation, from testing new studio techniques to incorporating new musical...

The Beatles — Help!

With Beatles For Sale , the Fab Four displayed their exhaustion both in the increased number of covers to give the Lennon/McCartney team a b...

Help!

The massive commercial and critical success of A Hard Day's Night surprised naysayers and fans alike, and United Artists wasted no time...

Sugar

The first thing that you can take away from Sugar , whether you like it or not, is that the face of baseball really has changed. America...

The Beatles — Beatles For Sale

If the Beatles' cover of Barret Strong's "Money" displayed a subtle hint of sarcastic frustration with manipulation at the...

The Beatles — A Hard Day's Night

If the film A Hard Day's Night was a test of the crossover power of Beatlemania, its soundtrack album had even more riding on it. Ameri...