While many Beatles songs have interesting stories behind them, some are more intriguing than others. “Get Back,” the band’s 1969 hit single, offers a good example. That track may have been inspired by ...

Even in the Beatles' ever-ubiquitous catalog, Hey Jude occupies a special place. There's a lot more in the way of staggering numbers, but you get the point – it's a song that perfectly embodied the ...

Sometimes being in a band is a democracy. Other times, not so much. Every band as their own way of operating. The division of power–wether discussed or not–will find a way to assert itself. In the ...

This article originally appeared on Rolling Stone. “Hey Jude” sums up the Beatles’ turbulent summer of 1968 — a tribute to their friendship, right at the moment it was starting to fracture. The single ...

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. "Hey Jude" ...