Simon co-wrote “Red Rubber Ball” with Bruce Woodley of The Seekers. A rock band called The Cyrkle recorded the song. During a 2019 interview with Goldmine, The Cyrkle’s Don Dannemann discussed the ...

60 years ago today, “Paperback Writer” became The Beatles’ 10th consecutive No. 1 hit in the U.K. It was the band’s first hit ...

Paul McCartney explained why he wrote The Beatles’ “Paperback Writer.” He said the song was partly inspired by “archetypal” paperbacks. Paul revealed what John Lennon said as his bandmate wrote the ...

Sixty years ago today, the Beatles were at No. 1 in the UK for the tenth consecutive time with the loudest song they'd ever ...

Sixty years ago today, the biggest band in the world did something it had never done on a No. 1 single. It stopped singing about love. The result was "Paperback Writer," a song written as a letter ...

In 1995, just shy of 30 years since the release of "Paperback Writer," and its B-side, "Rain," The Beatles' guitarist George Harrison remarked on The Beatles Anthology documentary series that "I ...

Sonically and chronologically speaking, we don’t often associate Bachman-Turner Overdrive with the Beatles, but the Fab Four is precisely who Randy Bachman was trying to emulate with his 1974 track, ...