This is where the what-ifs begin. What if another band had gotten the gig? What if they had joined Royston Ellis, an early UK ...

A rare piece of Beatles memorabilia — the Fab Four’s audition tape for Decca Records —was discovered at a small record store ...

A Beatles audition tape believed to be from the band's 1962 Decca Studios sessions in London have been discovered in a ...

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But he’s finishing up a new album, tentatively titled American Heart, set for spring or summer, and he’s more than ready to move beyond his hit. “I think I’m getting to the point where I ...

Matthew Sweet was born in Nebraska in 1964, and drew inspiration from the British Invasion bands dominating the charts just as he came into the world. Sweet went to college in Athens, Georgia, and ...

Sweet released two major label solo albums in the late ... 60s-themed first volume of Under the Covers are familiar chestnuts by the likes of the Beatles or Dylan, but the duo also dig up ...

That is not to say, however, that The Beatles were not wild in their own right. Inevitably, Sgt Pepper’s became one of the most iconic records of the 1960s, influencing everybody from Jimi Hendrix to ...

They released numerous singles, an EP and an album. The following year he was ... and Christopher Cross as part of a celebration of The Beatles. Late last year, Joey's girlfriend Mary posted ...

Originally planned as a campaign song for psychedelic guru Timothy Leary on his quest to become a politician, it wound up as the opening track of the last Beatles album to be recorded: 1969’s ...

Charli XCX, Sam Fender, JADE and Ezra Collective were among the big winners at this year’s Brit Awards, with Charli taking home the top prize for Album of the Year. The ceremony was held at the ...

John Lennon would later go on to describe ELO as “sons of The Beatles”, and all of this cumulatively, from style to sonic influence, had a significant impact on Lynne. It seems almost cruel in that ...