
“A young woman in the spring and summer of 1967 was walking toward a door just as that door was springing open. A stage was set for her adulthood that was so […]
Novelist, college professor, rock musician - are we getting the band back together? Maybe....
“A young woman in the spring and summer of 1967 was walking toward a door just as that door was springing open. A stage was set for her adulthood that was so […]
“Love Me Do” was their first song, but it was far from perfect… “‘Love Me Do’ is Paul’s song. He wrote it when he was a teenager. Let me think. I might […]
There are some laudable choices: Alabama, Misissippi, Montana, Missouri, New York… But Nicholas Sparks? “Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of […]
One chord can change your life. “There was no reason for Michael to be sad that morning, (the little wretch); everyone liked him, (the scab). He’d had a hard day’s night that […]
Bob Dylan will pick up his Nobel Prize shortly while on tour in Sweden. Joan Baez was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year. Whether they ever got […]
Songs like “Good Day Sunshine” indicate that the wit and whimsy that originally endeared the Beatles to millions would not disappear. “It was really very much a nod to The Lovin’ Spoonful’s […]
It wasn’t easy being John Lennon’s friend, and Yoko didn’t make things any easier. “If anyone was doing the hanging on, it was John. He hung on to me, always had done. […]
“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.” – Jane Austen Various news sources, both here in America and […]
According to one source, the Beatles covered at least 15 Chuck Berry songs. “If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it ‘Chuck Berry’.” – John Lennon […]
I could offer several excuses for why I quit Words and Music, a book I had high hopes for (Morley is one of the great experts on contemporary pop), but the simple […]